From a gracious, ivy-clad posada to a beach house with a Cornwall-meets-Cape Cod vibe…By Lucy Gillmore
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Costa Cruises, the largest Italian tourism group and Europe’s number one cruise company, continues to invest in fleet quality and sustainability, with four ships in the Costa group entering dry-docks for maintenance operations totalling €66 million.The most significant works, worth approximately €55 million, are being carried out on Iberocruceros’ Grand Holiday in the S.Giorgio shipyards […]
MANILA (October 26, 2009) - Costa Cruises, Italy’s largest tourism group and Europe’s n. 1 cruise company, today celebrated the maiden call of Costa Classica to Manila as it became the first cruise company to commit regular calls in the city’s port.Welcomed by cultural dancers and musicians playing music of the Philippines with “rondallas”, Costa […]
A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 (A$22) a night — if you don’t mind sleeping in a tent.The Rancho Bernardo Inn boasts three pools, a spa and golf course. It typically charges more than $200 a room.But business is down. So from August 16 to 31, guests can get a […]
You’ll find Flax under “ Art Materials and Supplies” in the San Francisco phone book, which is like defining the Grand Canyon as a riverbed: it may be technically true, but it grossly understates the depth, breadth and wonder of the place.An irresistible beacon for artists, art students and crafts-happy dilettantes, this vast concrete-and-steel space […]
The Preah Vihear temple, which lies on the disputed border of Thailand and Cambodia, has seen a 30.1% drop in arrivals in the first quarter of 2009. The Phnom Penh Post reported that Preah Vihear welcomed just 16,700 tourists in the first three months of the year, down from 23,900 in Q1 2008.However provincial tourism […]
The four Central American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua — will allow the free transit of tourist with visa from the U.S., Canada or some European countries, which are part of the Schengen area, authorities announced on Monday. According to information reaching here from San Salvador, Salvadorian Foreign Minister Marisol Argueta de Barillas […]
Costa Cruises has received official approval from the Chinese Ministry of Transportation to operate three special cross-Strait cruises between the mainland and Taiwan.Operating from April to May this year out of Shanghai’s new cruise terminal, the historical cruises will include calls at ports in Hualian, Jilong and Taizhong in Taiwan and will last for seven […]
The flightMonarch Airlines is reviving one of the routes lost by the demise of Excel. Weekly direct flights between Gatwick and Grenada & Tobago will begin from next Saturday. For more information, call 08450 858080 or go to www.goldencaribbean.co.ukThe websiteNew to the web, an online local travel community from responsibletravel.com. Go to www.iknowagreatplace.com to find […]
Summertime in Patagonia on an ice-filled lake and working ranchEL CALAFATE, Argentina — The first morning we awoke , a translucent iceberg the electric hue of blue food coloring was floating outside our bedroom window.We had traveled to the end of the earth, to one of its southernmost inhabited corners, to gaze at towering glaciers […]