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I Discover The Best & Worst Of A Nile River Cruise

…t before immigration at the airport and guided through, had all transfers, hotels in Cairo, flights to and from Luxor, the river cruise, entry to the sites, food (breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner), Wi-Fi (though not that good!), daily Sip & Sail hour with all drinks using Egyptian spirits every evening. Egyptian beers and wines with lunch and dinner, entertainment events, and the Cruise Manager (Walaa) and the Egyptologists. The only ext…

Cruise Tips

Seniors Cruise Tips: Too Many Cruisers Over 55 Fall For These 8 Cruising Traps

…s means my bags are handled for me. They take them from the airport to the hotel, usually I can them leave them outside my hotel room and they collect and load into the transfer bus and so on. A few other packing things that apply more to us. Medications are critical. Ships don’t have pharmacies to fill our prescriptions, so bring more than enough of what you need. I bring several weeks more than the cruise. Keep it in your hand luggage, and I lik…

Celebrity / Cruise Ship / transportation

Do Low Crew Wages For Cruise Ship Jobs Fund Luxury Cruise Fares?

…e fares? The show argued that while cruise passengers were enjoying 5 star hotel luxury and service, the crew serving them were having to work for extremely low wages with unreasonably long hours. The crew were effectively helping to fund affordable luxury cruise travel. Many cruise passengers, travel writers and bloggers took to cruise message boards and blogs to argue that there was nothing new in the the show. They argued that all cruise passen…

Cruising the Norwegian Fjords: Skjolden Sognefjord 130 miles Inland

Cruising / Norwegian Fjords / Norwerian Fjords / transportation

Cruising the Norwegian Fjords: Skjolden Sognefjord 130 miles Inland

…d to Geiranger. I assume due to its more remote location. There is a small hotel, guest houses but much less capacity. There is a new pier structure that juts into the sea that you can walk out onto to get better views and fish. It can be retracted when ships are not in to keep the natural feel of the Fjord. What are the must things do with your limited time in Skjolden? Sengjaberget Viewpoint. The most popular outing seems to be the 1 mile walk f…

Travel Agents Focusing on 5 Specific Types of Travellers

gay / seniors / solo / Tips for Travellers / travel / travel agents

Travel Agents Focusing on 5 Specific Types of Travellers

…out some of the market. For example, on our last trip to Las Vegas the MGM Hotel Group (which own most of the major Las Vegas Strip hotels) were the main and very public sponsors of the Las Vegas Pride events. ManTrav.co.uk is a leading gay travel agency is per 20 years old, originally formed in California in 1990, and now claim to be the leading gay travel agents in the UK too. They claim they pick destinations and resorts that not only cater for…

Alcatraz Prison Island San Francisco: worth escaping TO if you get the chance to

Alcatraz / Attraction review / California / san francisco / Tips for Travellers / travel / usa

Alcatraz Prison Island San Francisco: worth escaping TO if you get the chance to

…you should visit the Ferry Building versus the famous Pier 39 Castro Street: vibrant and very gay Sausalito (charming town across the bay) Hotels I stayed in San Francisco and surrounds: Le Meridien Hotel San Francisco Cavallo Point Hotel (across the bay) Alcatraz Prison San Francisco (d block: isolation), originally uploaded by garybembridge. Things To Do San Francisco…

New York: Skyscraper Museum New York: is it a towering success?

Attraction review / New York / Tips for Travellers / travel / usa

New York: Skyscraper Museum New York: is it a towering success?

…ngs, big constructions and the like, I was excited to see that near to the hotel we were staying in at Battery Park New York, was an interesting sounding museum called “The Skyscraper Museum”. A visit to the website at http://www.skyscraper.org made it seem a must see visit for building geeks. I assumed it would be as interesting as some of the kind of documentaries on Discovery Channel (I did warn I was a bit geeky on these things!). The museum w…

New York in 48 Hours. The ultimate guide for time pressed travellers.

Destinations / New York / USA

New York in 48 Hours. The ultimate guide for time pressed travellers.

…you get there. You can check directions on one of the maps you get in your hotel. You amble up the road first you will see the famous Radio City Music Hall. If you’re going to be in New York around Christmas, it is worth booking to see the Radio City Hall Christmas Show with the Rockettes. You can go on a tour through the Radio City Music Hall, but it’s probably on this whirlwind tour it is best to just take photographs of the outside of this fabu…