On July 17, 1955, Walt Disney experienced what he and many referred to as “Black Sunday.” Imagine, if you will, a swelteringly hot day in southern California surrounded by 28,000 people with limited access to water, atop asphalt soft enough to get your shoes stuck, and things are malfunctioning all […]
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Travel & Leisure’s 2020 “world’s Finest” Motels, Cruise Traces, Airways, & Extra
Not each airline, not each resort, not each tour company, and never each attraction will make it. Nor, obviously, will a lot of other firms that have absolutely nothing to do with travel other than their employees beforehand traveled to do their jobs, pouring billions of dollars into the worldwide […]
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6 reasons I’m happy booking a windowless ‘inside’ cabin on a cruise ship
© Provided by The Points Guy MSN has partnered with The Points Guy for our coverage of credit card products. MSN and The Points Guy may receive a commission from card issuers. Load Error As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of cabins with balconies. As I explained in […]
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10 things you didn’t know about building cruise ships
A ship is the largest human construction capable of moving across the globe. Not surprising then that putting a cruise ship together is a tour de force of structural engineering. There are only four shipyards with the capability to build the world’s biggest cruise ships: Germany’s Meyer Werft; STX Europe, […]
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Spirit of Adventure cruise ship greeted by sister vessel on arrival in Britain
It wasn’t the public welcome with rows of camera-clicking spectators that Saga would otherwise have expected for the arrival in Britain of a brand new ship. But as Spirit of Adventure docked at the Essex port of Tilbury last night, she was given a warm greeting by older sister Spirit […]