By Eric Goldring
We arrived at the Celebrity Equinox at noon with our luggage efficiently taken and we were quickly ushered through security and to Concierge Class check-in, where we were met by no line at all. In about five minutes we were onboard. It was, pretty much the most efficient check-in ever.
So everything and everybody was ready to go…and then the car to take us to the airport didn’t so up. Fortunately, I left us more than enough time and had a Plan B, so we piled all the luggage in the car and drove to an airport parking service with
This past Tuesday I attended the launch party for AFAR Magazine, the newest (and I believe best) travel magazine out there. Launch parties tend try to wow you with flash. This one didn’t; rather it was just cool. I wanted to bottle the “feel”. It was held in a three
On Sunday my family embarks on a 13 night cruise on the brand new Celebrity Equinox. Our cruise is roundtrip Rome with port calls in Naples, Italy; Athens and Rhodes, Greece; Kusadasi, Turkey; Haifa and Ashdod, Israel and Alexandria, Egypt (overnight)…with four sea days. We will be overnighting off the ship in
Seabourn has released an interesting time lapse video of the construction of the Seabourn Odyssey. Enjoy! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXDlBWOSrb0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1&w=445&h=364]
I guess I asked for this. I pointed a number of my readers to Ralph Grizzle’s Avid Cruiser website as I posted his short video on Seabourn Odyssey’s cuisine. So today I read Ralph’s post about which is the best luxury cruise line. He mentions Seabourn, Silversea, Regent Seven Seas,
You know I consistently rave about the quality of Seabourn’s cuisine and have found it to be of even higher quality on the Seabourn Odyssey. While I was onboard the Odyssey I had the opportunity to chat with Charley Palmer about the new and enhanced menus, his galley setups and
Frank Del Rio, President and CEO of Prestige Cruise Holdings, owner of Regent Seven Seas, recently was interviewed by Travel Weekly Magazine. The article was about sales and marketing of Oceania and, to a much lesser extent, Regent. There was an interesting exchange: Q: With Regent, you chose to include
While I am writing how there seems to be little cross-over from Silversea to Seabourn, it appears that Seabourn may well be trying to change that! Possibly smelling Silversea blood in the water, Seabourn has essentially put all of 2010 on sale adding additional discounts to virtually all of its
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