By Gerry Barker It’s been a long time coming, but after years of planning and construction, Brightline, Florida’s inter-city rail service, is ready to take passengers between Orlando and Miami The highly-anticipated opening of the […]
By Gerry Barker In one corner of the sprawling exhibit space at Seatrade Cruise Global, held in late March at Fort Lauderdale, a giant island panorama proclaimed, “Venture Deeper.” That’s the new marketing slogan for […]
By Gerry Barker At the recently concluded Seatrade Cruise Global conference in Fort Lauderdale, Janet Bava, chief marketing officer for AmaWaterways, talked about how a ship becomes “an extension of the destination.” That’s just one […]
By Gerry Barker “Barbados is open for business.” That was the message delivered by a delegation from the Caribbean island nation, led by its Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Ian Gooding-Edghill at the recently-concluded […]
By Gerry Barker Here’s a fun fact: Did you know Holland America has been sailing Alaska before Alaska even become a state — 75 years, to be exact. That was just one thing we learned […]
By Gerry Barker Photos and Video by Gerry Barker In the late Eighties, there was a famous commercial for bath products that coined the line, “Calgon, take me away.” That could easily apply to what […]
By Gerry Barker WEST PALM BEACH – It’s safe to say any fan of romantic comedies has seen “Pretty Woman” multiple times. Pam confesses she can almost say the dialogue along with the characters. Almost […]
By Gerry Barker What better way, we asked ourselves, to spend a picture perfect, end-of-February day in SoFlo than lunch by the waterfront along Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach? And we happened to know […]
By GERRY BARKER MIAMI BEACH_ “When we set out to find the right godmother for Vista, it was something we took very seriously,” said Frank A. Del Rio, the president of Oceania Cruises. “We wanted […]
By Gerry Barker During a recent cruise on Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam, a number of guests had gathered around the ship’s cruise director, Gage Griffin. The topic of conversation wasn’t the evening’s entertainment, or when […]
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