I am excited to announce the 2026 Goldring Travel Culinary & Cultural Journey will be a sixteen-day expedition from Bali to Singapore, visiting Borneo and Indonesia from Buddhist temples to jungles to coral reefs, departing on October 24, 2026.  As this journey has just been opened for sale, Aurora Expeditions

Our time on Explora Journeys Explora I and the Goldring Travel 2024 Culinary & Cultural Journey continued, now focused on some lesser-known Greek ports. First up was Volos, Greece. What? You’ve never heard of it? Isn’t that the point?   One of the quandaries of selling unique destinations is that most folks haven’t heard

I really wanted my Oceania Riviera cruise experience to be exceptional, albeit I did take its “Finest Cuisine at Sea” with a bit of a marketing over substance approach. Unfortunately, things fell short; and not just a little short.  At the outset, I need to mention that my Reflections articles

My journey on Oceania Riviera continues, as we are approaching our final ports, some of the ones I have most been looking forward to are coming up. Hiroshima has been high on my list of places I have wanted to visit. Having grown up at a time when World War

It was time to experience two days of learning and understanding of the history of Tokyo, formerly known as Edo.   Between Instagram,  TikTok, and YouTube, you can be lulled into the belief that you can easily visit Tokyo on your own. The reality is that you can “visit” Tokyo, but

As I prepared to board the Oceania Riviera for a cruise circumnavigating southern Japan, what I have long said has come into play: Taking a cruise is really like a sandwich, the bread (cities that you embark and disembark in) matter as much as the meat (the cruise) itself.  And

There was a lot of excitement when the Four Seasons announced it was building a luxury boutique yacht/cruise ship. However, at the time I expressed both my skepticism and belief that it really would have no effect on the luxury cruise market. Today it was announced that two of its