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Wished private meeting space

Travelers' Intercom, March 2008 issue
On two sailings of Oceania Cruises’ Nautica — to Thailand, Viet Nam and China, Jan. 19-March 5, 2007, and to Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan, March 16-31 — I have run into the same problem. The meetings for 12-step recovery groups were held on the starboard side of the Horizon Lounge, a very large meeting, coffee, ...

Enjoyed meals on Continental

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
My husband and I flew on Continental Airlines July 15, 2007, from San Francisco to Newark to Copenhagen to board the Crystal Symphony for a cruise around the Baltic Sea. Much to our surprise, the food on the flight was terrific in business/first class. The dinner began with seafood, including a lovely lobster bisque demitasse with ...

Prebooked St. Petersburg shore tour

Travelers' Intercom, April 2007 issue
My wife, Gloria, and I took Celebrity Cruises’ 12-night Scandinavia and Russia cruise aboard the Century, Aug. 14-26, 2006. The itinerary took us from Amsterdam to Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen and back to Amsterdam. In the pre-cruise literature there were draconian and confusing warnings about passengers taking shore tours in St. Petersburg not arranged ...

Baltic cruise with two boys

Travelers' Intercom, April 2007 issue
My two sons, aged 11 and 15, went with me on a fabulous 10-night sailing around the Baltic on the MS Amsterdam of Holland America Line (Seattle, WA; 800/426-0327, www.hollandamerica.com), June 22-July 1, 2006. Not including airfare, the price was $7,000 for four of us in a family cabin (my husband opted not to go ...

Cruising World » Star Princess rises like a phoenix

Columns, February 2007 issue
Cruising World » Star Princess rises like a phoenix
by Lew Toulmin After suffering a fire in the Bahamas in March 2006, Star Princess recovered in amazing time and is now “the safest ship afloat.” I was on board Star Princess for her first voyage after the repair, and I can report that there is no evidence of fire damage, service is excellent, and safety ...

Imagining a Nobel experience in Stockholm

Features, October 2006 issue
by Jennifer Petoff, Blue Bell, PA As a scientist, I have always been enamored with the Nobel Prize. There is a certain magic associated with these elite awards and the pomp and circumstance that goes along with them. Sweden’s own Alfred Nobel, a fellow chemist and a pioneer in the field of explosives, left funding for prizes in ...

Hebridean Island Cruises

Travelers' Intercom, May 2006 issue
For those who fervently believe that “less is more” and “smaller is better,” we recommend Hebridean Island Cruises, Ltd. (Griffin House, Broughton Hall, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 3AN, England; phone 44 [0] 1756-704704 or visit www.hebridean.co.uk). This English line operates two ships. We cruised on the Hebridean Princess in 1994, 1998 and 2000 and on the ...

All Aboard! » Finland’s King’s Road West

All Aboard, March 2006 issue
All Aboard! » Finland’s King’s Road West
by Jay Brunhouse Pilgrims, royal couriers, soldiers, merchants, postmen and even Czar Alexander I trudged along the muddy, medieval path that connected Stockholm through southern Finland with St. Petersburg. It has become known as Finland’s King’s Road because the crown maintained it. The Russian emperor traveled in an ermine fur-lined sledge from Turku to Helsinki with ...

Cool places … in hot Malaysia

Features, October 2005 issue
by Jay Brunhouse, Contributing Editor The pet monkey named Joyng bit through her leash and romped through the fronds of the palm trees, celebrating her freedom. She paused occasionally to heave a coconut down at the sweat-soaked baseball cap of her frantic owner, who was chasing wildly after her and, in the Terengganu dialect which Joyng ...

Best and worst places to drive

Features, August 2005 issue
We asked those of you who have rented cars and driven in various countries to tell us which cities/countries you have found to be the worst in which to drive. (ITN prints no information about destinations in North America or the Caribbean.) We asked you to explain why you chose that city or country, if ...
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