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Fiji Islands
South Pacific Archipelago
By: Chuck Taylor
Have you ever imagined taking an exotic trip to the South Pacific? There is a special place where you can be the first to experience sunrise on the planet each day. It's an ancient archipelago with over three hundred tropical islands. Cannibals once inhabited the ....
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Fiji Islands
Blue Lagoon Cruises
Viti Levu, FIJI
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Fiji Islands
South Pacific Archipelago
By: Chuck Taylor
Have you ever imagined taking an exotic trip to the South Pacific? There is a special place where you can be the first to experience sunrise on the planet each day. It's an ancient archipelago with over three hundred tropical islands. Cannibals once inhabited the ....
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Antarctic Dream Ship
Great Southern Ocean
Antarctica
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Antarctica
Dream Voyage
By: Bruce Northam
My quest to behold every country on earth normally bars repeats unless a place is indescribably astonishing. From the moment I left the Antarctic Peninsula in 2005 and returned to the southern tip of South America, I vowed to revisit that crystalline quartz otherworl ....
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Great River Journey
Canada
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Yukon River
Great River Journey
By: Laurie Gough
Few places in the world exist where there were once many people and now there are none. All along the Yukon River are the rotting and rusting relics of a population long since disappeared. In the gold rush to the Klondike thousands used the river like a highway ....
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Escape to Gotham
Overnight Getaways
New York, NY
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Escape to Gotham
Overnight Retreats
By: Malerie Yolen-Cohen
Just because you live a half-hour from midtown Manhattan doesn’t mean you shouldn’t indulge in an overnight stay every once in a while; especially now, when, according to a recent New York Magazine article, “hotels have become a cultural force in ....
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Royal Caribbean
Rhapsody of the Seas
Alaskan Cruise
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Royal Caribbean
Alaskan Cruise
By: Will McGough
This winter, Rhapsody of the Seas spent a month (and $54 million) at a dry dock to undergo a makeover and some on-board improvements. In May, I had the opportunity to set out on its second sail of the season to Alaska from Seattle, with stops in Juneau and Skagway. H ....
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Cristal Room Baccarat
Baccarat Mansion
Paris, France
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Cristal Room Baccarat
Paris, France
By: Danielle deBenedictis
My husband and I have had a pied a terre on the left bank in Paris for twenty eight years. I fancy myself a Paris cognoscenti, but somehow I missed Baccarat’s Museum and headquarters in the sixteenth on the Rue des Etats Unis until my recent fall trip for the f ....
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Fiesta Am Condesa
Mexican Riviera
Cancun, Mexico
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Fiesta Americana Condesa
Cancun, Mexico
By: Amy van Arsdale
The popular epitome of Location, Location, Location rings true for the discriminating luxury traveler too. If you’re considering a getaway vacation with the family the Fiesta Americana Condesa in Cancun is situated on prime oceanfront real estate and is worth p ....
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Viking River Cruising
Prestige Launch
Amsterdam
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Viking River Cruises
Amsterdam
By: Barbara Barton Sloane
Biking, busing, tramming or hoofing it, Amsterdam is a city easy to get around. It has beauty, charm, and hundreds of canals connected by 500 pretty bridges - and flowers everywhere! These 17th century canals enjoy the honor of having been added to the UNESCO W ....
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Embankment Festival
Frankfurt, Germany
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Frankfurt, Germany
Life After Lederhosen
By: Barbara Barton Sloane
Lucky me! In August of last year, I found myself in Germany - Frankfurt, Bad Nauheim and Kassel to be precise - a propitious, tourist-perfect time. The very weekend I was in Frankfurt, the city was playing host to its annual arts and culture happening - the Mus ....
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Black Forest
Black Sea
Danube River
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AmaWaterways
Melodies of the Danube
By: Barbara Barton Sloane
The Danube River does, indeed, drift - for almost 1,800 miles - from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. For millennia the legendary Danube has been the main waterway through Central and Eastern Europe. Picture the spires of castles and 13th century cathedrals hoverin ....
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Travel Insider: famtip of the day
When travelling to Europe from North America, the flights usually arrive there in “their morning” (which is actually the middle of the night for people from the west). The best way to deal with jet lag is to sleep for no more than three hours and force yourself out of bed, have a wake-up shower and go out for a walk and something to eat. By the time you return to your room, it’s evening and you can go to bed and (hopefully) sleep a full eight hours. With a bit of luck you’ll wake up somewhat refreshed. A person's first instinct, upon initial hotel check-in, is to either sleep all day (due to exhaustion) which results in being awake all night, or to try to stay up all day (which is almost impossible and dangerous.) Several of my flight attendant friends and I have tried the latter and have almost been hit by cars, buses or trams due to our fatigue. In London, especially, we forgot that the cars were on the other side of the road!!
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famtripper fun fact
Notre-Dame Towers
The climb starts with 255 steps up the North Tower. Then cross over to the Galerie des Chimeres, which will give you a bird’s eye view of the amazing carved stone monsters. Kids love this! It’s another 147 steps to the Bourdon, which is a giant bell located on the roof. You'll have a spectacular panoramic view. This is the home of Victor Hugo's famous character "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame".
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