Last year, we gave each other one holiday gift: a Caribbean cruise that took place over Christmas.
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This winter, escape it or embrace it; Either way, a small ship can get you there. Think warm-water classics like the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and Costa Rica, or island-hopping through Southeast Asia and the Canary Islands. Then there are the outliers: French Polynesia and Tahiti, where Windstar sails year-round through tropical waters, and the Mediterranean, our new favorite way to spend the season, minus the summer crowds.
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Once one of the greatest cities in the Mediterranean, ancient Ephesus, just outside the Turkish port of Kuşadasi, remains an extraordinary site by any measure. A big part of that is sheer grandeur: this is a place where entire streets, facades, and structures still stand, largely intact, in a city that reached its peak between
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It seems fitting that our 7-night cruise from Rouen to Bordeaux was also designated a James Beard Foundation voyage. Windstar has partnered with the foundation for 11 years now, sailing its award-winning chefs alongside guests and folding their dishes into Amphora menus, and this trip felt like a perfect showcase of why.
Traveling with friends is an excellent option for any vacation. You can reconnect with your friends, experience new cultures and make lasting memories. The experience can relieve stress and enhance your creativity, making it a reinvigorating opportunity for everyone in your travel group. The hardest part is usually agreeing on where to go. What if one
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Ask a dozen travelers to picture a cruise, and most will describe the same scene: turquoise water, a swim-up bar, a beach with a hammock. That’s the Caribbean — and it’s a wonderful, well-earned classic. But a few thousand miles east, off the coast of Northwest Africa, another archipelago offers an entirely different kind of escape. The Canary Islands trade palm-fringed beaches for volcanic peaks, tropical humidity for eternal spring, and beach clubs for tapas bars tucked into cobblestone plazas.
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Ocean crossings — most commonly the journeys between Europe and North America each spring and fall as ships reposition for the seasons — are one of the most underrated experiences in travel.
Trish and Brooke Harwood have cruised all over the world, but their most recent voyage — a two week sailing from Lisbon to Rouen (and several added days at each end) — stood out. This time they brought along their two sons and their partners, continuing a family travel tradition that started with Trish’s own
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Caribbean’s yacht harbors give Windstar’s small ships an advantage. Rather than crowding into the same mega-ports as the big cruise lines, our yachts slip into harbors too small, too shallow, or simply too special for larger vessels.
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As Windstar’s shipyard and newbuild teams prepare for the launch of Star Explorer, its second new addition to the fleet in two years, attention now turns to the leadership team responsible for making sure it is ready for its debut. Windstar has announced the slate of officers who will be part of the inaugural season.
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Tobler, in addition to overseeing many crucial functions, including housekeeping and public spaces, is a visionary whose gift for the culinary arts has lifted the line with new accomplishments.
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The science is in: stepping outside your routine may be one of the most powerful things you can do for your mind and body. Global travel exposes you to new languages, places and ways of life, changing the way you think, making you more worldly and helping you understand different cultural practices. As a result,
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And yet, here’s the thing: in the spirit of adventure, would you purposely set out on a cruise where you didn’t know where you were going? Yes!
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One of the most popular aspects of Windstar’s partnership with the James Beard Foundation is its chef-led culinary cruises.
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When Windstar announced last fall that it would be extending its Mediterranean season to year-round (from spring/summer/autumn), the first thing I wondered was this: How would a cruise in November–early March be different from one during the traditional April–October time frame? How would the new timings materially change the experience?
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Are you a huge river cruise aficionado looking for some fresh new itineraries that offer tastes of both rivers and oceans?
