Author: Johanna Jainchill 

BOSTON — At around 5 o’clock on our first night at the Raffles Boston, our butler, Steve, knocked on the door. He was there with two Celtics caps, the city’s NBA team,…

Tel Aviv’s Drisco Hotel is among the best examples of the painstaking restoration put into many of the White City’s crumbling historical buildings. It took 12 years to transform what had been…

Douglas Prothero has stepped down as CEO of the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, where he will remain a strategic advisor and member of the board. Prothero also remains an investor in the cruise…

Has the pent-up demand that helped fuel a surge in travel as the pandemic ebbed finally run its course? Analyses from two major financial institutions, Mastercard and Bank of America, posed that…

It’s hard to find a better ski-in, ski-out experience than the one offered at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe. Quite a few properties advertise easy slope access, and sometimes that means feeding guests…

Explora Journeys has pushed its first ship’s maiden cruise to Aug. 1, departing from Copenhagen, Denmark, saying a delivery delay has occurred because certain building materials did not meet safety requirements.  The…

ONBOARD THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENDURANCE — When Lindblad Expeditions said it was building two of the most advanced polar-class expedition cruise ships, it came as a wave of cruise lines, some established…

Cunard has inked a partnership with two-Michelin-starred French chef Michel Roux, whose menus will be among several culinary additions to the Queen Anne, set to debut in May.  Roux, of London’s Le…

Johanna Jainchill NEW YORK — With the debut of Explora Journeys’ first vessel, MSC Group entered the luxury cruise realm, creating, according to Explora chief sales officer Chris Austin, a “house of…

The Edgewood Tahoe Resort, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, already stands out in its crowd: The 154-room property is an upscale oasis just a mile from the casino resorts that…