Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady is the new star ship in town. Step onboard and immerse yourself in her glamour and style.She's a Lady and real class act. Cruising will never be the same again. The bar has been raised. This is definitely NOT your parents' or grandparents' traditional cruising experience. Virgin's Sir Richard Branson famously stated ove...

Costa Maya is the first Caribbean port designed exclusively for the cruise ship industry and is strategically located just hours from Cancun on Mexico's Southern Yucatan Peninsula. Resembling an ancient Mayan City, Costa Maya, is able to berth three ships at once. However, in these early days of a gradual return to full capacity, even at one ship a...

Harvest Caye, Belize, is a private island in the Caribbean, owned and managed by Norwegian Cruise Lines. Through the long pause in operations, as passengers waited to get back to sea, the trendfor upmarket tailored destination travel reached new heights. The major cruise lines seized the opportunity to develop and market their own exclusive enclave...

Under the shade of a cotton tree in Gumbalimba Preserve and Animal Sanctuary the monkey sitting on my head nurses her baby and eats her nuts. Bruna is a white-cheeked, black-haired spider monkey and the sanctuary is in the Bay of Islands, Roatan, 40 miles off the northern coast of Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea. Bruna shows no fear of humans and af...

Sixteen months ago, halfway througha Grand Round the World Voyage, my ship of dreams came to a sudden halt one port on from Sydney. Aboard a Greek owned, British cruise liner whose entire fleet would subsequently be declared bankrupt. We intrepid seafarers waited anxiously for news of whether we would be evacuated from the ship and flown home; sail...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life (Samuel Johnson 18th century diarist ). Other cities may try to claim this enduring epithet but it is to London that it rightfully belongs. As an honorary Londoner having lived here for almost all of my adult life, I am constantly enchanted and inspired by the diversity and immensity of the most be...