This time of year I received many e-mails from clients and potential clients seeking advice for their next vacation. While that is great news, and I love to help them, there is a problem…A Big Problem. The problem is, well, e-mails. Too many of us have become so reliant on

John Delaney, Seabourn Cruise’s senior vice president for sales and marketing, announced in Travel Weekly UK some things that I have and aware of, but have not been able to share with you until now. The first exciting bit of is that Seabourn intends on having the Seabourn Sojourn spending

I have compared, in a number of articles, some of the differences between the various luxury cruise lines.  One of those points is that Seabourn’s smaller ships can go places other cruise ships simply cannot.  This recent photo of the Seabourn Legend as it transits the Corinth Canal in Greece

Many of you have read about my annual participation in the Global Superyacht Forum in Amsterdam, but really did not have much of an understanding about what goes on in what we discuss. The Superyacht Group has just released a video that I think you’ll find interesting. (And, yes, I

One of my clients sent me the following and I thought, this isn’t funny, but it is a joke. But before you read it, I want to look back to when the Euro was first being put in place.  I said then, and believe now, the currency must fail. The

I regular refer people looking for objective evaluation of cruises and cruise ships to avoid magazine polls (Conde Nast, Travel & Leisure, Porthole, etc.) and look to objective experts like Douglas Ward (Berlitz) and Stern’s Guides. The reason is that the magazine polls can easily be skewed by improper voting,

It has just been announced that HAL and Seabourn are merging their United Kingdom (UK) sales offices and teams; mimicking the rather frustrating endeavor in the United States.  The reason is not to increase operational efficiencies, but according to the press releases:  Carnival wants to group its “luxury” brands. Unfortunately,

Lots of suggested articles are sent to me from various industry sources and companies seeking to push a particular product or position.  Generally I read them with interest, but don’t find them something my readers would find interesting or useful or, frankly, they are just are too biased. However, today

Today is a pretty unique day.  I figure it is also a great time to remember that we each can view every day as unique and not the “same old same old”.  That is, however, up to us…and not a calendar. As I look out my windows at the clear