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Highlights from our favorite trips

Travel Journals

Highlights from our favorite trips

Travel Journals

Highlights from our favorite trips

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Highlights from our favorite trips

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Apr 24, 2025 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

Air New Zealand: Sky Couch or Premium Economy?

I spent many months and many hours planning our March adventure to New Zealand. For budgetary reasons we were going...

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Oct 17, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

Explora Journeys: First Impressions

Explora Journeys is a beautiful new product that can readily compete with the best in the luxury cruise space.

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Jun 14, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

The Debut of Oceania Vista

Designed by Studio Dado, the new Oceania Vista is a step up and raises the bar for Oceania, in both design and amenities. In many ways, Studio Dado "knocked it out of the park." 

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Jun 07, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

World’s Most Energy Efficient Cruise Ship Announced

In years past there have been concerns expressed about whether cruise ships and cruise vacations are or can be eco-friendly....

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Apr 05, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

The New Crystal Cruises: Set to Relaunch

A&K Travel Group, parent company of Abercrombie & Kent, one of our preferred partners, is the new owner of two of Crystal Cruises ships, Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony.

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Mar 28, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

The New Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto 

If Tokyo is the throbbing heart of Japan, then Kyoto might be the country’s soul of sorts: more serene and the center of Shinto-Buddhism. While a ‘soul’ is more enigmatic than a ‘heart,’ and there’s certainly a hustle and bustle in Kyoto, too; Kyoto...

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Feb 27, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

Where To Go!

For the leisure traveler, the world is your oyster right now.  Since the world reopened following the height of the pandemic, most destinations are eager to see tourists and there are many new hotels, ships and experiences. Here’s a few trips on our radar.

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Feb 06, 2023 Avatar Dan Ilves Dan Ilves

Escaping to Los Cabos

Los Cabos has always been a great getaway because it offers Southern Californians (and those in other parts of the US) an easily accessible away-from-home resort destination. 

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