Posted on March 11th, 2010, 7:15 pm
by dan.i@travelstoreusa.com
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a cruise line offer a circumnavigation of Australia cruise. In January, 2011, Silversea is doing just that, with a 30-day cruise, roundtrip from Sydney. Silver Shadow’s itinerary will call on Brisbane, Whitsunday Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Port Douglas, Cooktown, Darwin, Broome, Exmouth, Perth, Albany, Port Lincoln, Adelaide, Geelong, Melbourne and Hobart.
Presently, only Orion Expeditions…keep reading
Posted on September 17th, 2009, 11:39 am
by dan.i@travelstoreusa.com
As a company that is a an ASTA Green Member and committed to being as environmentally-friendly as we can be (read more), we also keep an eye on the impact of travel and tourism on the environment. As I’ve often stated, this is a two-edged sword. While certainly getting on an airplane has an impact on pollution, is it really…keep reading
Posted on November 25th, 2008, 7:42 pm
by dan.i@travelstoreusa.com
I was fortunate to experience one of the Lindblad Expeditions’ West Coast itineraries. We left San Francisco’s Pier 40 on October 12, 2008 for a four-night cruise around San Francisco’s 3 bays and a trip up the Napa River to the Napa’s wine country. (We just happened to be in San Francisco on the weekend of the Air Show on Columbus Day…keep reading
Posted on November 13th, 2008, 2:21 pm
by dan.i@travelstoreusa.com
The Trollfjord is one of Hurtigruten’s newest ships, called Millenium class. Built in 2002, it seemed brand new. Absolutely spotless, everything worked. It’s got about 300 cabins and a 600 or so passenger capacity (plus the point-to-point passengers). Our Oct 23 trip was at best half full — just one dinner seating rather than two (nice, neither too early nor…keep reading
Posted on November 5th, 2008, 6:06 pm
by dan.i@travelstoreusa.com
My husband & I just returned from a wonderful cruise on the 134-passenger ship “Yorktown Clipper”. The itinerary was fabulous, a mixture of nature and cities. We boarded this Clipper Cruise Line (now Cruise West) ship in Seattle and set sail that evening. We had a comfortable cabin, with good storage space, a bathroom with shower, and a large picture…keep reading
Posted on September 22nd, 2008, 5:54 pm
by dan.i@travelstoreusa.com
At 9:45pm on Thursday, August 29th, the soundtrack of the Christopher Columbus “1492” movie came out on the upper deck, where all passengers were assembled. While the 21 sails on the Star Flyer came up in the air, slowly, quietly, the ship left the harbor of Papeete. It was the beginning of my first epic adventure as a “sailor”!
We all…keep reading
