The Australian travel company The Good Scout Travel Company (thegoodscout.com.au) specializes in helping travelers with impaired mobility plan trips and activities Down Under. Anyone who signs up for the free email newsletter will receive a link to download the PDF book "101 Accessible Australian Adventures." In the PDF, the title of each adventure links to the webpage describing the activity.
The stem segment of the Renaissance-era English ship Mary Rose, along with a pump and an anchor, were put on display with the rest of the ship's remains at the Mary Rose Museum (Main Road, Portsmouth, England; phone +44 23 9281 2931, www.maryrose.org) on Feb. 20.
In Hull, England, a glass tunnel 10 meters beneath a 660,000-gallon tank allows visitors to observe sharks and other fish swimming overhead in the "Endless Ocean" exhibit at The Deep aquarium (Tower St., Hull; phone +41 1482 381000, www.thedeep.co.uk). The aquarium has nine freshwater- and marine-environment exhibits, including "Bugs," "Slime" and (with a penguin enclosure) "Kingdom of Ice."
Open daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. £13.50 (near $18), adult; £12.50, senior, or £11.50, child (3-15).
A special exhibit, "Peggy Guggenheim: The Last Dogaressa," Sept. 21, 2019-Jan. 27, 2020, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701, I-30123 Venezia, Italy; phone +39 041 2405 411, www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/default.html) explores the Venetian life of the collection's founder and her procurement of its art.
Most cruise lines and hotels offer loyalty programs, but with MSC Cruises (Fort Lauderdale, FL; 877/665-4655), you can register the status you have with a competitor's loyalty program, and they'll match it with an equivalent of their own. For example, my Holland America Line 4-star status gets me Gold Status with MSC.
If you go to MSC's website (www.msccruisesusa.com/statusmatch) and provide proof of your status with another loyalty program, they'll match it when you book a cruise with them.
There are two ships, Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony, in the tiny ocean fleet of Crystal Cruises (Los Angeles, CA; 888/722-0021, www.crystalcruises.com). Pretty much a matched set, with rotating crew, routes and entertainment, they carry roughly 900 passengers each.
