Category: Travel News

Playa Hotels & Resorts is expanding its midscale Jewel Resorts brand, with two new Jewel-flagged all-inclusives coming to the Dominican Republic. The first, the 620-room Jewel Punta Cana, will open on Dec….

Startup luxury cruise line Explora Journeys has partnered with Steinway & Sons, which will supply three Steinway Spirio player pianos for the Explora I. Starting this summer with Explora I’s maiden journey…

One day earlier this month, I showed up at approximately 8:20 a.m. for a flight out of Phoenix on the semiprivate carrier JSX.  Just two hours and 10 minutes later, having already…

While construction has begun on Silversea Cruises’ second Nova-class ship, the debut of the first has been pushed back one month.  Silversea president Roberto Martinoli pointed to “worldwide issues” that have affected construction…

Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, has announced its inaugural Las Verbenas Food and Wine Festival from December 3 to 4. “We took inspiration from Puerto Rican ‘verbenas,’ or traditional festivities held across…

Nicole Edenedo For some people, there’s nothing better than spending the holiday season with boots on their feet and a cup of hot cocoa in their gloved hands while the temperature tumbles….

I’m not exaggerating when I say I still can’t figure out my favorite thing about the Hotel de la Ville, Rocco Forte Hotels’ newest property in Rome. It might have been the…

For a limited time, AmaWaterways is enabling travel advisors to earn tour conductor (TC) credits on air transportation and pre- and post-cruise land packages. The offer applies to all new group contracts…

When the opportunity arose to visit the Galapagos Islands but the timing meant my son would miss two days of school, I hesitated for about 30 seconds. The famed archipelago is, after…

“Did you know that John Glenn visited here to get a feel for walking on the moon?” asked Johann Helgi Gislason, a member of the host team at the Retreat at Blue…