Acupressure is an ancient form of healing that uses finger and hand pressure to stimulate key points on the body. Several of these acupressure points can be effective for preventing and relieving motion sickness, however by far the best known – and easiest to locate and use – are...
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Caribbean cruise ports you didn’t know existed
For those who want the quintessential Caribbean cruise vacation, with time to lie on a palm tree-lined beach, frosty rum punch in hand, blue sea lapping the shore, cruise lines offer tried-and-true itineraries – including one-week sailings to such popular destinations as St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Cozumel. But...
Cruise Expert Margrit’s Vietnam & Cambodia Pics
Ha Long Bay (left), Phnom Pen (top left), Hue (top right) and Royal Palace in Phnom Penh (bottom left and right)
Windstar’s Destinations
Arabia Your elegant yacht with its sleek lines and sophisticated technology takes you through lands as old as time and as new as tomorrow. The pharaohs themselves would envy your luxurious passage along ancient spice routes and the treasures you encounter in your journey. Golden trinkets from the tombs,...
Rhine River Port Highlights
One of the joys of a Rhine cruise is the variety of shoreside experiences it offers. You can find yourself exploring the cobbled streets of a sleepy medieval village or taking in the sights of a vibrant city, enjoying a lazy afternoon wine tasting, strolling the banks of a...
Rhine River Cruise Basics
One of the world’s most popular river cruising destinations is the mighty Rhine, which gets its name from the Celtic word renos (“raging flood”). But Europe’s longest and most important river begins as a trickle of melted snow from the Rheinwaldhorn Glacier high in the Swiss Alps. It first...
6 Tips for Protecting Your Luggage
1. Make the investment Demonstrating the abuse a bag can typically expect, Murphy began his segment by hurling a suitcase from atop a ladder. “This is a $60 bag. That bag is probably going to survive two or three trips and then it’s going to come out with handles...
10 Reasons Travel Agents are Better Than the Internet
by Matt Metzer, thrillist.com While you might put travel agent right up there with VCR repair man and video store clerk on the list of jobs that have gone the way of the Yellow Pages, there’s a reason you still see them wedged into strip malls between your dry cleaner...
Travel agents know the best cruise secrets
On the big MSC Divina, my balcony cabin at the aft end provided a rare sense of privacy and easy access during a week’s winter voyage in the Caribbean from Miami. Four cabins away from mine was a door that led to a little-used outside stairway which became my...
OOPS! How Not to Embarrass Yourself in a Foreign Country
THE WRONG HAND GESTURE CAN GET YOU IN TROUBLE Here in the U.S., you’d never seriously consider flipping the bird to a total stranger, right? (Just roll with this and say “Who me? No, never!”) But when traveling abroad it’s entirely possible to throw an unintentionally rude gesture at...