KAUAI — For people habitually accustomed to wine tasting and not particularly motivated by rum tasting, coffee tasting is the appropriate alternative on an island that has become known for the bean and the liquid it creates. Where better to do that than at an estate where four million coffee trees each produce a pound… Continue reading For Coffee Aficionados, More to Hawaii Than Kona
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Tips for Shore Stops on a Cruise That Includes Kauai
KAUAI — This is called research. Wouldn't you come to Kauai to dig up, along with some sand, information for a blog? Wouldn't you make a special trip down the road a few miles just to have a look at Pride of America, which would be called Hawaii's cruise ship if it didn't belong to… Continue reading Tips for Shore Stops on a Cruise That Includes Kauai
City of Five Sails Tops at Cruise Critic
Best North American homeport for cruise ships? Miami? New York? New Orleans? Fort Lauderdale? Galveston? Los Angeles? All wrong, so guess again. Try…Vancouver. That's the gospel according to the editors of Cruise Critic, lost there in the midst of a bunch of annual cruise awards, version 2013. For those of us who know the city… Continue reading City of Five Sails Tops at Cruise Critic
Cards for Cruisers — Still More To Do
News release: Norwegian Cruise Line has launched a new Gift Card that can be redeemed toward the purchase of a cruise or onboard expenditures, making it easier for guests to give the gift of cruising to friends and loved ones. Kind of makes you wonder why it took so long for somebody to think of… Continue reading Cards for Cruisers — Still More To Do
Windstar Moves from Nowhere to No. 2 for Small Ships in Conde Nast Awards
When Conde Nast Traveler announced its 2013 Readers' Choice Awards this month, much of it was the "usual suspects" in the "usual places" because people who go on cruise ships and vote on these things generally don't change their preferences from year to year. But in perusing the list of winners, one cruise line jumped… Continue reading Windstar Moves from Nowhere to No. 2 for Small Ships in Conde Nast Awards