“Champagne?” the tuxedoed waiter asks, “Yes, that would wonderful,” I reply. I have just boarded the brand-new Silver Spirit in Monte Carlo for its first sailing with passengers. The moment is surreal and a far cry from my previous voyage a few months earlier during Silver Spirit’s sea trials when the vessel was still under construction and where instead of champagne I shared breakfast pizza and espressos with the shipyard workers onboard.
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Have all the European ski resorts gone the way of concrete, apartments, fast food and endless traffic? No, not all of them. Here are 15 European ski resorts that still retain some of that old chalet-and-sleigh-bell charm.
Next year the Disney Magic will spend five months in Europe and gee whiz do they have a treasure trove of activities and tours planned for the kids from a treasure hunt in Tunisia to a grand ball in a real Russian palace.
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Take two Italian cruise ships, Italian food, Italian wine, Italian luxury and over-the-top Italian pomp and circumstance in the Italian city of Genoa and what do you get? A ‘fantastico’ experience. Such is the life when “Cruising Italian Style” aboard the brand-new Costa Luminosa and Costa Pacifica.
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After traveling in Spain for years, NH Hotels is a brand name hotel that can be found in more and more cities and towns. It is now expanding through Europe with their same excellent, affordable, basic businessperson formula.
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Douglas Hawkins and his wife reserve a Budget rental car in Naples, Italy, but when they arrive at the car rental counter, the company downgrades his car and nearly doubles its rate. Six months later, Budget hasn’t refunded the money Hawkins says it owes him. What now?
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