Vacations can be tiring, especially when they involve traveling with kids. So in planning my first major trip as a solo adult with my two school-age sons, I wanted to avoid feeling as if I immediately needed another vacation to …
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Choosing the right cruise ship is a bit like picking a suitor through an online dating service: You’ll find lots of interesting characters, but not every one is a good candidate for romance. Like a potential suitor, each cruise line …
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Q: We recently booked an 11-night, air-inclusive Adriatic cruise on the Celebrity Silhouette through the cruise line. We paid the $6,800 using our Visa card. A few days before our flight from Minneapolis to Venice, Delta Air Lines notified us …
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And you thought you had bad luck. Ed Petrasovits and his wife Barbara Ferguson, from New Jersey, just stepped off a norovirus-infested cruise — for the second time in two years. “We were all in some kind of a shock …
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Celebrity Cruise’s Millennium in Ketchikan, Alaska (AP) Towering cruise ships, sometimes four at a time, sit at port in Juneau at the peak of summer, delivering tourists important to the economy of this and other southeast Alaska communities. But some conservationists …
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File photo(Photo: Journal Courier) •Stat leaders: Mason McCloy (PV), 20 points, 10 rebounds; Clay Stratton (PV), 18 points, 7 rebounds; Dylan Swingle (PV), 13 points, 8 rebounds; Anthony McFadden (PV), 13 points, 6 rebounds; Hunter Miller (A), 18 points, 9 …
Editor’s note: James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd of Underbelly is on vacation, making his way through Vietnam from the south to the north and back again “eating everything,” he says. “I want to see the culture and food of this country that helps …
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The trip wasn’t so grand for many guests on board Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas. The cruise line cut short a nine-day trip to Jamaica by a day after a passenger experienced a medical emergency and more than 200 …
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Transatlantic Cruise Travel Program on Feb. 20 at the Downers Grove Library The excitement and color of a transatlantic cruise will be highlighted at the February “Adventures in Travel” program hosted by the Downers Grove Friends of the Library (FOL) …
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