Timeshares are great for frequent travelers, but be very selective about the corporations that own/manage the timeshares. After several fitful starts at timeshare ownership, we came across the Hilton Hawaiian Village; they are professionals in the lodging business, they are clearly not going to go out of business tomorrow, they manage properties and trades around [...]
Princess offers more cruises to more destinations than any other cruise line and she currently has a long list of cruises out of San Francisco (our home base). We dislike flying from Point A to Point B so much now that we decided to see what ships sailed from the City. Princess now has the [...]
Online Exclusives – Find the Perfect Cruise, including Family Cruises, Last Minute Cruises and featured deals from Norwegian, Carnival, Princess, Celebrity in popular destinations so that you can escape from the cold to the Bahamas, Caribbean, Hawaii or Mexico. Princess is offering reduced deposits on most upcoming cruises and cruise tours. Many sailings also qualify for shipboard credits of [...]
Cruise Direct sends along their top six most popular cruises and their last minute cruises every month or so. Here are their current listings. We’ve been on a two-week Caribbean cruise and a 14-day Mediterranean cruise and would do them again in a heartbeat. We’re now thinking about cruises in Northern Europe and Asia. Also [...]
Back to dreams of travel. Just came across a maritime museum new to me: Aegean Maritime Museum in Mykonos, Greece, which is a place I’d like to revisit . . . especially to stay in one of the classic white Cycladic houses like this one in Thira’s Imerovigli neighborhood: Heliotopos. CruiseDirect features online cruise exclusives [...]
Cruise Direct sends updates of their travel activity. For our family and many of our friends, one of the best gifts anyone could be given is a vacation. During this time of year, cruises to tropical places are high on the list of vacations that people desire. Remember “The Lady is a Tramp,” one of [...]
Dane and Sherrie Faber of First California Realty in Sausalito, California recently returned from an Asian Cruise that included Singapore, Thailand (Ko Samui), Bangkok, a trip up China’s Yangtzee on one of Royal Caribbean’s exotic cruises. Their brokerage is one of Marin’s top real estate companies and Sherrie is the #1 in Marin County, actually. [...]
Luxury Sale Ends Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Excellent Rates and Limited-Time Extras: 2-for-1 Fares! FREE Onboard Spending – up to $2,000! FREE Unlimited Shore Excursions! FREE Gratuities & More! World-class comfort, sophisticated surroundings, unrivaled service and pampering – the sky’s the limit aboard today’s cruise ships. Go to sleep at night; wake up in a [...]
Here you will find special offers relating to travel: Tours, trips, discounted airfares, lodging, auto rentals, bus tours, gear you must take with you — anything to make your travel more enjoyable. We have invited our travelling friends to send along their “must-have-items” for travel whether it’s by car, bike (including motorcycles), bus, plane, train, [...]
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You never know! We have dozens of stories where insurance saved the day by providing medical care such as fixing a broken limb, or even flying someone to the nearest hospital from some exotic port, including our own emergency in the Cook Islands!
