Special All Inclusive Vacation Edition Post: Melissa Ghazi, Marketing Manager at The Travel Authority / ALTOUR It was 2:30pm Central Time when my husband and I landed in Cancun, Mexico. This was my second time coming to beautiful Mexico. I had once stopped here for 6...
By Janet Steinberg SILVER WHISPER TURNS WINTER INTO SUMMER Over the past decade, my travel group (known as Doc Irv’s Mermaids) formed a strong bond with each other. So strong a bond that we felt we would go to the end of the earth FOR each other. This time...
“There's a small hotel, with a wishing well, I wish that we were there together…” Rodgers and Hart 1936by Janet Steinberg I surely don’t remember that song when Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote it in 1936. But, at the risk of dating myself, I do...
A Standard of Elegance. By Janet Steinberg HOTEL NEGRESCO: This Belle Époque palace, the Grand Dame of the French Riviera in Nice, France is a wedding cake-like confection iced in pink and green. With its sweeping view of Nice’s Bay of Angels, the Negresco was classified a National Historic Monument in...
A Standard of Elegance By Janet Steinberg "It’s a world-class resort.'' "It’s a world-class hotel.'' How many times have you read, or said, these words? "World-class’ is perhaps the most overworked word in the travel world’s vocabulary,What actually makes a great world-class hotel? More than well-designed bricks,...
QUEBEC EXUDES HISTORY AND IRRESISTIBLE CHARM Québec City is love at first site. And the first site to capture us was the 350-foot Cap Diamant, a massive headland dominating the majestic waters of the St. Lawrence. Our warm and welcoming north-of-the-border neighbor transports us to Europe without ever...
MAGNIFICENT MONTREAL: FEEL THE PULSEBy Janet Steinberg Montreal, in the Canadian Province of Quebec, is claimed to be the second largest French-speaking city in the world. Anglophile meets Francophile and the past meets the future in this vibrant city where stop signs command “arret”, a horse-drawn...
CRYSTAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRATES THE QUINTESSENTIAL ANNIVERSARY CRUISE! By Janet Steinberg At the 22nd minute past the 22nd hour of the 22nd day of October, my husband and I raised our glasses in celebration of our 22nd wedding anniversary. 22nd wedding anniversary celebration aboard Crystal Symphony But this was destined to...
A YEAR OF SEA-ING THE WORLD By Janet Steinberg “The Gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span those hours spent in sailing.” Ancient Phoenician Proverb Imagine winning the lottery and being given the opportunity to choose a solid year of travel…anywhere in the world…by any means of transportation. ...
Becoming a statistic came as a jolt to me! Today in the United States millions of women are living alone--some by chance, others by choice; some in utter despair, others enjoying a freedom never experienced by their married sisters.A teen-age bride, married over half my...