The Late Delivery Effect: When Cruise Ships Are Not Built On Time

Scenic Cruises recently made an announcement we don’t hear very often: the new ship they are building will not be ready on time.  More commonly reported on this topic: lots of ships across nearly all cruise brands are coming our way Read More …

Tiny Star Legend Largest Ship To Transit Locks

This week, Windstar Cruises tiny Star Legend became the largest cruise ship ever to transit the Ballard Locks and sail onto Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. Star Legend’s inaugural visit to was especially significant because Seattle is the home of Windstar Cruises.  Onboard, Windstar Read More …

Luxury Expedition Cruises Bring Deep Touring

Abercrombie & Kent has been defining luxury adventure travel since 1962. Over the decades, A&K travel services have been extended to over 100 countries around the world on all seven continents by land and air.  This top travel company also Read More …

Windstar Destination Domination Plan Detailed

Small ship cruise line Windstar Cruises has doubled its number of Concierge Collection shore excursions in 2018. Part of an ongoing quest to go beyond simply delivering Windstar travelers to interesting places. They do that too.  No, this is the Windstar destination Read More …

Windstar Sommeliers: Beyond The Corkscrew

Windstar Cruises has a team of sommeliers ready to serve guests on sailings in 270 ports around the world.  Those Windstar sommeliers aim to elevate the at-sea travel experience, drawing on the line’s hotel operations team and their sincere desire to Read More …

Our Last Trip, The Windstar Instagram Version

Windstar Cruises Best Of The Philippines & Borneo cruise sailed from Singapore to Hong Kong on a 14-night adventure packed full of authentic destination experiences. As we sailed, every day also brought a new tour of a land we fell Read More …

Windstar Small Ship Asia Cruising Evolves

Windstar Cruises returns to Asia for the 2018/19 season with Star Legend after her inaugural Alaska season this summer. The 2018/19 Windstar Asia season will bring four new cruises on top of the most popular sailings including a comprehensive exploration of Read More …

Windstar Award Sweep Impressive, Tasty

Now, Windstar Cruises begins 2018 on a high note with a staggering total of 20 travel awards in the 2018 Cruise Critic Cruisers’ Choice Awards. The Windstar award sweep brings first place in categories that focus exclusively on small ship Read More …

Windstar Culinary Collaboration: Extended. Enhanced. Unexpected.

Windstar Cruises current partnership with the James Beard Foundation resolved as a nice fit for the cruise unexpected line.  We saw that first hand recently while sailing Star Legend for the 2018 Windstar President’s Cruise, a 14-night sailing from Singapore Read More …