cruise travel

When our Virgin Voyages cruise made a stop in Curaçao, we hadn’t booked a shore excursion in advance. But once onboard, we opted for a tour that included a visit …

More and more people are experiencing cruises for the first time. To put that into numbers, in 2024 alone, the cruise industry as a whole grew by 18.6% in revenue …

A while back, we wrote a piece about the perks you can potentially get if you stay in a hotel as someone who owns stock in said brand, or parent …

We’ve always been more into points and planes than ships and sea days. But over time, cruising has started to grow on us. My wife Sharon’s enthusiasm tends to drop …

When people on a cruise go out to visit ports, they’re usually dressed pretty casually. Of course, if they’ve done some research before their cruise, they hopefully know the countries …

If you like to travel, chances are that, at one point or another, you’ve read about the secret bedrooms, where flight crew sleep during long haul flights. When flight crew …

Overtourism is a huge problem at many locations throughout the world. It’s gotten so bad that some cities in Japan, Spain, Amsterdam, and Venice, among others, have either begun or …

In the past, we’ve written about why airplanes are painted white, why their doors are outlined with a different color, and the significance of the colors of a plane’s jet …

When you’re cruising and book an excursion, the general rule of thumb is that if you buy the excursion through the cruise company, the ship is guaranteed to wait for …

Regardless of who won the election last week, there were going to be a bunch of people who were going to be very, very, very unhappy. Maybe even unhappy enough …