It is a rare occasion to be truly impressed by an airline meal. My flight from Vienna to New York’s JFK on Austrian Airlines flight 87 was, hands down, the best business class dining experience in 2011! Austrian Airlines is Austria’s largest carrier and offers a global route network of 130 destinations with a strong [...]
By Arie Boris CruiseGourmet.com Magazine Upon landing in Athens, after a nine hour flight, a Travel Dynamics representative was waiting just outside the arrivals gate. I was whisked off to Piraeus, where I was personally escorted onboard the intimate Corinthian II. I was offered a cool drink, declined an invitation to lunch and was lead [...]
By Arie Boris, Editor-in-Chief, CruiseGourmet.com Magazine With years of cruising under my belt, this was my first port visit to Quebec City and I fell in love with it! Picturesque and European charm are two adjectives that come to mind when describing this delightful Canadian city overlooking the St Lawrence River. Settled in 1608 by [...]
By Arie Boris, Editor-in-Chief CruiseGourmet.com Magazine Where does the time fly? I cannot believe it is twenty years since the Crystal Cruise brand was first introduced. It did not take long for the cruise industry and the public to recognize a real game changer! Over the last two decades, Crystal Cruises has come to set [...]
Carnival Cruise Lines is offering best available upgrades on virtually all departures through December 2011. Carnival also offers up to a $200 onboard credit per stateroom for all Carnival Magic Europe voyages booked on Oct. 13. The WLCN best available upgrade offer applies to new individual bookings for stateroom categories 4A and higher. Upgrades are available within specific stateroom accommodation types (interior to interior, ocean-view to ocean-view, balcony to balcony).
airberlin, which will become part of the oneworld alliance in 2012 and will begin codesharing with American Airlines in November, said it will begin new nonstop service from New York to Berlin next summer. The move is part of airberlin’s continuing expansion strategy. The JFK-Berlin service means that in the summer of 2011, airberlin, Germany’s second-largest carrier, will offer 11 nonstop flights a week to Berlin and Dusseldorf, its other main German hub.
by Margo Pfeiff
It’s mid-winter in British Columbia, time to slip into a warm and cosy suit, grab a board and head for . . . the beach! If surfing giant rollers isn’t your thing when the temperature drops, meander instead through landscapes where tropical-coloured blossoms sway as wildlife peers wide-eyed from between the fronds of a lush garden . . . underwater! OK, so you’re bundled into a dry suit, but who says winter has to be all about ice and snow? In coastal southern BC, temperatures hint at Mediterranean balminess and lavender and rosemary thrive in window boxes year round, so it’s almost possible to forget it’s December, or January, or February . . .
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