Q – We are winos, in the best sense of the word, and all of our recent forays have been to wine destinations like Bordeaux, Tuscany, and a great week in Napa. Our travel agent has planned these well and knows we’re adventurous (early forties and financially comfortable). But now she is recommending we go…
Q – I travel internationally and domestically for both business and pleasure. I have a good corporate agent who seems to get me good rates at the top-end hotels I use. But I wonder if we are missing a strategy that might get me comp upgrades. They just are not happening. You have a nice…
Q – Good news – I’ve just been given a plum assignment in London that will get me in and around the British Isles. I will be flying back and forth to London quite frequently and am wondering if there is one best way to avoid the lengthy security lines? I’ve been on the internet…
Q – This is written out of frustration. I’ve been on tech boards, researched on my own, and talked to my best high-tech buddies, and no one seems to have a solution to a simple question. I travel internationally all the time and I need to use my phone in the most effective manner. Some…
Q – Don’t wish to slow down the pace of your wonderfully engaging travel Q&A, but, as an architect, the question of density and travel is something I find intriguing. I work on high-rise design. If you think of places like Monte Carlo, the Indian slum Dharvari, and, perhaps, Hong Kong, we would have several…
Q – As a frequent traveler within the USA, I find my printing business takes me away about three weeks a month. I stay in lots of hotels, never, if I can help it, less than four stars, as five-star hotels always have excellent ac system installation that would make you feel relaxed and comfortable….
Q – Help me – I don’t know how exactly to phrase this but we’re looking for an island in the Caribbean that hasn’t been completely overwhelmed by mass-market, trinket seeking day trippers. We appreciate the finer things in life and we don;t want to give up on the Caribbean but our last several forays…
Q – We watched the shots of the huge lines at O’Hare Airport last night and we thought we would ask if there are posted times for international departures out of LAX? What are professional travel experts now recommending for the number of hours early one must now arrive at an airport to assure making…
Q – We are doing a cruise on Azamara that will require us to fly into Barcelona this summer. I am going to be doing the air research myself and will, likely, not use my travel agent for the air but will, instead, do it myself. I am, according to the lovely wife, “totally air…
Q – Thank you for all of this truly helpful information. We are going to take one of your suggestions to do a European “sampler” 14-Day cruise that includes sailing on the Danube, the Main, the Rhine between Budapest and Amsterdam. It sounds like a great way to experience the best of European river cruising….
Q – We are looking over several brochures including Grand Circle and Uniworld, and we notice that almost all of their programs are 10 to 14 days long. As a a working mother I can’t take off more than a week for a river cruise vacation. Are there specific lines that concentrate on shorter cruises? …
Q – We are anxious to do the Classic Rhine Itinerary and we wonder if you expect Crystal to deliver on its promise to offer day sailing and more time in port in the evening? We are not at all concerned about the quality of the new company as we agree with your ratings that…
Q – We have sailed with Uniworld once before and we were totally impressed with the service, the food, and the wonderful crew on the Paris Impressions sailing aboard the Baroness. Quite frankly, we think you’re off on your ratings as we can’t imagine anything much better than what we experienced. But we are not…
Q – We absolutely adore your site and hope you can answer a very specific question for us. We are going to take the plunge and do a Rhine cruise next summer. But the Rhine is a long river and we’d love to know if there is one part of it that is considered the…
Q – We are in our late fifties (well, in truth, that would be the missus) and early sixties (yours truly). We are anxious to cruise the Rhone between Taarascon and Chalon-sur-Saone with some extra days in Paris at the end (I proposed to my wife in the garden of a small restaurant in the…
Q – Really amazing site. Kind of makes your competitors look like they’re in someone’s pocket. We have a TA who is urging us to book Tauck, which seems to be the most expensive of the river boat lines, because they have membership in something called CLIA. This is supposed to give passengers an advantage…
Q – We are seriously considering booking the new Uniworld ship that will be doing the Seine out of Paris next summer. Our agent can get us a junior suite which will provide some extra space. We have been doing escorted tours with Trafalgar, Insight, and one, recently, with Collette. We are in our mid-sixties,…
Q – We’ve sailed on three European river boat itineraries, each on a different line. We’ve sailed on AMA, Avalon, and Viking River and, while there were obvious differences, we were wondering if you might tell your audience how these lines find their staff. We generally found that each of the lines seemed to have…
Q – First, what pleasure to read material that is fact based, presented without a sales pitch and does not talk down to the reader! We are debating between Scenic & Tauck for a 2017 Prague-Budapest itinerary. With Scenic’s promotions, there is about a $2,000 price difference(for 2) in the cruise itself and then they…
Q – Although I can afford virtually all of the cruises described in your “Top Ten” List, I am essentially cheap, a holdover from my former life as a CFO at a large insurance group. I was scrolling the internet and I saw an article that explained how “Cruise Lines Fill All their Unsold Cabins.”…
Q – We are huge fans of this and each of your other ad-free web travel sites. Appreciate the attitude and the honesty, We travel exclusively on five-star ships and stay in five-star hotels. We’re planning two trips, one later this year to Asia, and one for next summer in Europe. But as we make…
Q – We are long-time, rather devoted, fans of Seabourn cruise line. We have loved every single aspect of Seabourn although one or two of the smaller restaurants on the Odyssey and Sojourn seem to be geared a bit more toward European tastes. So we got rather excited when the Seabourn newsletter arrived at the…
Q – My girlfriend has invited me to join her on a cruise to the Caribbean aboard a line I never heard of, MSC. I Googled them but only got more confused. We are in our seventies and I have done eight previous cruises on Cunard Line, Princess, and, most recently, Crystal, which I liked…
Q – I just paid $2.10 a gallon to fill my Lexus with premium gas. I imagine the airlines are seeing similar huge reductions in the price of fuel. So why did I just pay $120 more for a round-trip ticket on Delta to London than I did the same time a year ago.? Is…
Q – Our travel agent seems to be quite high on Viking Cruises and wants to book us on the Viking Star. The price seems good, very good, and they do include shore excursions. We know you don’t give Viking’s river cruises the highest ratings so we’re wondering if this cruise to northern Europe is…
Q – I have heard that there is a woman living aboard a Crystal Cruise ship. We’ve never sailed Crystal but we find the idea of spending our retirement at sea absolutely intriguing. Do you have any idea of how this would work and what this woman I read about is actually paying on a…
Q – A casual friend has put us on a Canadian mailing list that includes updates of cruise information for the Canadian market. He claims that you can save money if you book in Canadian dollars. Wondering iof that is true but moire interested in the headline of the last issue that said there was…
Q – We hear good things from our friends in Austin about Celebrity and I’m not just talking about friends in cowboy hats. We don’t see much about them on your site and are wondering why. Also wondering just how much is included on this line. I would hate being nickel and dimed for drinks,…
Q – I am confused. Having migrated away from Holland America and Norwegian, we are now ready to do one of the top lines on a “try it out” Caribbean cruise. But your ratings list Hapag-Lloyd as the best while the Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast Ratings are completely different and barely mention the…
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