Cruise
European Waterways Set For Fleetwide Upgrades
European Waterways is investing more than $500,000 in a fleetwide upgrade program that will see cabin redesigns, upgraded on-board amenities and modernized bathrooms on numerous vessels. According to Derek Banks, managing director for European Waterways, the company’s ongoing collaboration with Britain’s Marion Falchi Interiors, which specializes in luxury residential interiors, will ensure that a more contemporary style is “married smoothly with traditional features” to meet the line's standards of luxury, comfort and convenience. Cabins on L’Impressionniste in Southern...
Special Deals From European Waterways
European Waterways is offering travellers savings of up to 20% off charters and cabin prices on select hotel barge cruises in Europe for spring 2019. These specials represent savings of up to $13,760 off on charters and $2,540 off on cabins, based on double occupancy. With the growing popularity of solo travel, the company is also waiving the single supplement on select cruises, allowing guests to save up to $2,200. Specials are available on departures from March to July when booked by Feb. 18, 2019. A complete list of eligible vessels, departure dates and applicable specials...
No Ordinary Experience
For those agents with clients who like spontaneity and have flexibility, then Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic have just added three upcoming expeditions that could be the whale watching experience of their lifetime. Inside Magdalena Bay: Where the Whales Are is a special five-night voyage that's unique, fun, wild, action-packed, close to home, and filled with extraordinary gray whale encounters. Magdalena Bay is where gray whale mothers, calves and juveniles end the longest mammal migration on earth. It has been part of Lindblad's itineraries in Baja California for over 30...
HAL Turns Up The Heat
From foodie newbies to seasoned cooks, Holland America Line is encouraging guests to embrace their love of cooking alongside the experts at America's Test Kitchen with five new shows starting in January 2019. The new 45-minute presentations -- covering everything from tacos and takeout to dinner for two and sweet treats -- join the 14 current shows and feature a mix of video, instruction and live recipe demonstrations. All Holland America Line ships (except Maasdam) feature America's Test Kitchen venues that replicate the set where the prominent America's Test Kitchen television shows...
TTAND Earns Celebrity Rising Star Award
Celebrity Cruises has awarded The Travel Agent Next Door (TTAND) its Celebrity Rising Star Award for 2018 in Canada. The award is given to a newer, upcoming agency. TTAND is an agency that is focused on a true partnership with Celebrity Cruises, one that shows innovative marketing and surpasses revenue and APD expectations. And most importantly, they have a fantastic attitude . TTAND has been exceptional in all of this criteria from the leadership team to each one of the Travel Advisors. They participate in everything Celebrity offers to better their knowledge of its Brand and its...
IT’S TIME TO VOTE!
Are you ready to pick your favourites? Well it's that time again as Baxter Media launches the 2019 Agents' Choice Readership Survey this week. Agents' Choice is Canada's original and most authoritative travel industry poll and each year it asks Canadian travel agents to pick their favourite suppliers in over 40 different categories – ranging from airlines to tour operators; cruise lines to destinations; coach operators to car rentals; and a whole lot more. Numbers matter and in 2018, 6,027 Canadian agents voted for their favourite suppliers in the annual poll. In 2019, the...
Win With HAL
With Holland America Line’s (HAL) new “Come Sail O-Way” sweepstakes, in partnership with O, The Oprah Magazine, one lucky winner and a guest will have a chance to bask in the sun of the Caribbean or Mexico on a seven-day cruise. HAL launched the sweepstakes to celebrate the delivery of Nieuw Statendam, its newest Pinnacle Class ship. To enter, participants must visit SailOWaySweeps.com and complete an entry form. Participants can receive an extra entry in the sweepstakes by sharing their sweepstakes entry on Twitter or Facebook. The sweepstakes runs through Feb. 17. The...
PONANT Set For Busy 2019 Season
Luxury French line PONANT will continue to broaden its horizons this year with the addition of two new ships and nearly 40 new itineraries across the fleet. From March to December, the ships will chart new courses through destinations such as North America, Africa, Europe, Caribbean, the Arctic and more. Highlights include: The PONANT EXPLORERS fleet will double this year with the addition of Le Bougainville and Le Dumont-d’Urville. Making their maiden voyage through the Baltic and Mediterranean, both ships will feature an innovative Blue Eye lounge – the industry-first,...