
Summer in Vegas: The Cromwell, The Pools
Not everything big in Las Vegas comes in large sizes. The Cromwell, the first boutique hotel on the Strip, opens the full effect of its 188 rooms at the end of May. In a town where 5,000-room properties are not hard to find, the petite hotel and casino on Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard […]

Hawaii Puts Out the Aloha! for Summer
Hawaiian Airlines’ Announces New and Never Before Summer Service Additions By Bill Becken Already known as a scrupulously on-time U.S. airline, Hawaiian Airlines, a majestic 85-year-old carrier running almost exclusively to and from Hawaii, is also a highly adaptable one, as evidenced by changes it has recently announced to its Western routes and capacities. […]

Crystal Cruises Adds Action, Depth to Shorexs
Crystal Cruises is not afraid to head off the beaten track to give passengers an in-depth experience of culture. Two new shore excursion approaches this year do just that by putting passengers in search of lost history on a journey into ancient Jewish life in Turkey as well as places in Europe that shed light […]

Dreamy Vacations: Pondering the Possibilities
Photo, Hiking & Wine Tour of Northwest Argentina Ciclismo Classico and Argentinian photographer, teacher, and documentary filmmaker, Ossian Lindholm, will lead an 8-night/9-day photography and high-altitude wine tour of Northwest Argentina in August. Guests spend nine days hiking through one of the most photogenic and pristine regions in the world. The group is small – […]

Where Have All the Families Gone?
Florida still reigns when it comes to family vacations, according to two new surveys: one by TripAdvisor and the other out by Family Fun Magazine. TripAdvisor’s recent 2014 survey of more than 2,700 U.S. respondents revealed that 92 percent plan to travel with family this year, up from 85 percent from last year. Of those […]

Dubai Goes the Distance with Grand Plans
Dubai may have started as a sleepy fishing village on a cove in the Persian Gulf but now it is growing, morphing, building, and changing faster than you can say “Las Vegas.” So fast is the movement of Dubai into the mainstream of tourism that it has won a position amid TripAdvsior’s top 25 most […]

Business Travel’s Big Rebound from Winter’s Woes
With winter now behind us the forecast is clear and warm for business travel, according to projections by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Driven by healthy corporate profits, rising management confidence, increased job development and an effort to reschedule the scores of meetings cancelled this winter because of raging storms, 2014 looks all in […]

NYC’s Landmark Park Central Hotel Gets a Lift
By Stacey Zable, Family Travel Editor The Park Central Hotel New York, originally built in 1927, re-opened in October following a multi-million dollar renovation. In addition to its fresh new rooms and accommodating staff, the main selling point of this property is its ideal location, which is on 7th Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Streets. […]

Cruise Industry Getting an Unwanted Spotlight
There’s an old addage that states how one bad apple can spoil the whole barrel. While it may not be applicable across all industries, from a perceptual standpoint a single brand’s debacle can mean a downgrade among all players in the industry. Such has been the case with the cruise industry, which bas been battered […]

Finding Soul in Newfoundland: Fogo Island Inn
Fogo Island off the coast of Newfoundland might be considered the edge of the earth, where souls are lost – and found. Looking over the tides of this far away world is the Fogo Island Inn whose rocky perch above the roiling North Atlantic presents a perspective like none other in a place like none […]
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