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Spring Magazine 2019
The Thinking Person’s Cruise® In 2004 my husband and stories about Canada and
I bought a small little the USA. Plus all the latest
At Viking, we believe travel is more than
publishing business travel and cruise news.
just a holiday — it should be a doorway to that produced an email I have been lucky
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Yellowstone National Park, USA
The oldest National Park in the US, Yellowstone is full of natural wonders.
Its geysers, most notably Old Faithful, are probably the first thing you
think of when someone mentions the park and for good reason – half the
world’s known geysers are located here. But Yellowstone is also home to
dramatic canyons, alpine rivers, lush forests and hot springs (like these
at Midway Geyser Basin) plus wolves, bison, bears and more.
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In the News Aranui adds new itineraries
Tahitian cargo cruise line
Aranui Cruises has added
scheduled cruises for
guests to choose from,
visiting Rurutu, Rapa and
Raivave in the Australs, and
three new itineraries to its exploring the South Pacific Tuamotu atoll Anaa.
2021 program. on the cruise line’s mixed The majority of the Aranui
The cruises take freight and passenger 5’s 2021 cruises will be its
travellers to 11 new vessel, Aranui 5. original 13-day roundtrip
destinations, and highlights The ship’s inaugural Cook itinerary from Papeete to
include the line’s maiden Islands itinerary departs the Marquesas Islands,
voyage to the Cook Islands on 4 September 2021 and with cargo stops at remote
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Wake up to
wildlife at
Taronga
Taronga Zoo in Sydney has
revealed details of its new
Wildlife Retreat at Taronga,
due to open in October.
The eco-retreat will allow
Wildlife View room at Wildlife Retreat at Taronga
guests to stay overnight and
wake up to the sounds of
Australia’s iconic wildlife. views of Sydney Harbour. from 10 October 2019. Rates
Travellers have the option In addition, the Me-Gal start at $790 per night for
to join a guided tour or just restaurant offers guests two adults and includes
enjoy the unique Australian at the lodge a uniquely two-course dinner, buffet
wildlife living outside their Australian menu with a focus breakfast, immersive
room in their own time. on fresh local produce and and exclusive Australian
Royal Caribbean’s new Spectrum
There are 62 rooms and native ingredients. animal experiences and
suites that overlook the The Wildlife Retreat at complimentary general
wildlife habitat, many with Taronga opens to guests admission to Taronga Zoo.
The new Royal Caribbean with its own slide between FlowRider, as well as the
International Quantum Ultra levels, along with exclusive new Sky Pad – a bungee
class ship Spectrum of the dining and its own private trampoline experience where
Seas sees the introduction pool and outdoor area called users wear virtual reality
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Carnival
Cruise Line
Carnival Cruise Line offers its on-stage
adaptation of the Spike TV series, Lip
Sync Battle: Carnival. The entertainment
offering is included in the cruise fare
and allows guests to live out their
dreams of being a music star, without
the need to hit the right notes. The
series of shows throughout an itinerary
pits passengers against each other
as they showcase their performance
skills. In the final round, the cruise line
provides the props, music, lighting,
choreographers and even backup
dancers. The Lip Sync Battle is available
across the entire Carnival fleet on all
itineraries seven days or longer.
Entertainment Celebrity Cruises
takes to the sea Celebrity Cruises’ new ship Celebrity Edge
hosts the line’s “most technologically
advanced main theatre and the most
projection screens, 16 video mapping laser
projectors and aerial performance rigging.
Celebrity Edge offers five new production
Is it a Broadway musical? Is it a gravity defying production shows of any ship in the fleet”. shows, including the Shakespeare-inspired A
The Theatre has four stage areas and Hot Summer Night’s Dream and the Jewelry
acrobatic feat? Is it light show? No, it’s your cruise three moving projection screens, a main Box, with its jaw-dropping technological
line’s entertainment line-up, and it’s redefining stage which extends into the audience, a feats. There’s also Kaleidoscope, a high-
the meaning of showbiz on the sea. Travel & Cruise rotating platform which raises almost two energy music and dance extravaganza, Get
metres above the stage, two rotating spiral Up, a pop concert and The Purpose, an
Weekly rounds up the latest in entertainment at sea. staircases, 10 synchronised panoramic uplifting production.
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SAIL WITH EUROPE’S LEADING CRUISE LINE.
MSC Cruises Step on onboard one of our award-winning ships sailing Europe in 2020.
Brand new ships require brand new
shows – and thanks to MSC Cruises’ +
latest partnership with Cirque du Soleil,
guests are in for a range of eye-popping
performances.
A total of eight Cirque shows have
been tailor-made for the cruise line for Up to US$2,800 In Overall Value+
its Cirque du Soleil at Sea series, which
is already giving guests on board MSC
Meraviglia the chance to experience the
ground-breaking entertainment while
enjoying dinner and cocktails.
MSC Belissima (which debuted in March
this year) and MSC Grandiosa (launching
in November) will both feature two shows,
Sonor and Viaggio, for guests to choose
from for an additional fee. The shows are
available to book six nights a week.
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Guests on board Norwegian Jewel this • Venice
Florence/Pisa
season will have their senses heightened (Livorno)
•
Split Helsinki St. Petersburg
with the award-winning show Velvet, which
• Ad Stockholm
•
• •
• (Nynäshamn)
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tic
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channels the original Studio 54 nightclub Barcelona
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•
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Offering an intoxicating mix of cabaret, Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea • Santorini
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burlesque and circus, Velvet features
performances by muscle men, singers, WHY CRUISE NCL?
hula-hoopers, acrobats and aerialists
in an eclectic combination of glitz and
glamour. The disco soundtrack includes a
range of popular tunes including “Boogie
Wonderland”, “Le Freak” and “Stayin’ Alive”.
Guests on board Jewel can also enjoy
productions Rock You Tonight, featuring
the music of Queen, Journey and the Who,
and Le Cirque Bijou with death-defying acts FREESTYLE DINING ENTERTAINMENT HIGHER STANDARDS
soaring through the air about your head. Only NCL offers the freedom and flexiblity of Freestyle
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P&O Cruises
The risque cabaret-style production
show Love Riot is P&O Cruises’ signature
show on Pacific Explorer. The explosive
act includes a world-class line up of elite
artists and contortionists that dangle
from silk sheets and trapezes, unicycle
through the audience and perform
awe-inspiring acts. Love Riot weaves in
dance, comedy, circus and acrobatics
and was created by Australian director
Scott Maidment, the brains behind
Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour. The show
is performed in the ship’s supper club,
Black Circus, for audiences 18 years and
Royal Caribbean International
over. It is $15 for general entry, including
a welcome cocktail, or $39 for a VIP ticket,
which includes a five-course dinner in
Waterfront and priority seating. Australia’s largest megaliner, Royal Caribbean “roboscreens”. The venue is a casual lounge
International’s Ovation of the Seas, blends live with expansive ocean views by day and at
performances, experimental cinematography night transitions into a display of video
and fresh tunes in its original production, projection, robotics and human artistry. It
Pixels. The art-meets-technology showcase features 18 projectors which combine to create
is included in the cruise fare and takes a 30m wide screen which wraps around the
place in Two70, an immersive, multimedia space. A reservation to the show is required
Princess Cruises
entertainment venue complete with dancing but is included in the cost of your cruise.
Don’t miss Fantastic Journey, the colourful, RESERVATIONS
convivial and computer and drone-driven NOW OPEN
concert that’s currently wowing guests on
board Princess Cruises’ Majestic Princess.
EUROPE and
Dubbed “the most technologically NORTH A MER ICA
advanced show at sea”, Fantastic Journey has
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Majestic Princess is the first ship to utilise ALASKA | CANADA & NEW ENGLAND
drone technology in a performance, which
forms part of the inclusive entertainment
across all itineraries over the 2019/2020
Australian summer cruising season.
No booking is required once on board,
however seating is limited – but never fear,
the unique “hanging” design of the Princess
Theatre means that every seat is in perfect
sight line to the stage, so all guests need to
do is sit back and enjoy.
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The Other
Sunshine
Coast
Canada’s Sunshine Coast stretches
north from Vancouver, offering an easy
getaway into national parks, ancient
cedar forests, islands and indented
bays, discovers Brian Johnston.
I know I’m happy when I and eat salads and wild
start talking to seals. How blackberries popping with
can I resist: they loll on the flavour. Later, plenty of late
rocks, fat bellies distended, summer light remains to sit
and indolently wave their in a waterfront restaurant
flippers as if saying hello. and eat prawns and Pacific
Their whiskers bristle like salmon. The sun doesn’t
a sergeant major’s when I slump behind the islands
veer to close to their pups. until eleven o’clock.
But I’m only inspecting Taking to a kayak – or
giant starfish on the rocks, any sort of boat – is the
and summer dragonflies best way to appreciate the
with iridescent wings. Sunshine Coast. Dozens
Above me, cedars tower and of companies offer kayak
eagles flap in their
nests.
This piece of I’m kayaking on the
British Columbian
coast north of cold blue waters. I
Vancouver is called
the Sunshine
pull up on a stony
Coast, which fits island and eat
my sunny mood.
salads and wild
©Destination BC
I’m kayaking on
the cold blue
waters. I pull up
blackberries popping
on a stony island with flavour.
16 Travel & Cruise Weekly Spring 2019Left: Ferry is
the only way
to access the
Sunshine Coast
©Destination
BC/Andrew
Strain
Top right:
Passengers
relax in the
sunshine on
the Island
Sky ferry
©Destination
BC/Andrew
Strain
Bottom right:
Boats in a
small harbour
along the
Sunshine Coast
©Destination
BC/Local
Wanderer
rentals, or take you out and turning their faces up to and twice takes to ferries
with an instructor for a lazy the warmth. at Horseshoe Bay and Earls
paddle. You can join larger The Sunshine Coast lies in Cove. The highway finishes at
vessels for whale-spotting a rain shadow, protected by the township of Powell River,
trips. The bays are haunted the mountains of Vancouver from which you can backtrack
by killer whales, carving their Island which provide such a to Vancouver or – highly
way gracefully through the pretty backdrop across the recommended – take another
water. water. This short stretch of ferry across to Vancouver
Just getting to the Sunshine happiness has the longest Island, which is well worth a
Coast involves a car ferry at frost-free season in Canada. visit, especially for Victoria,
Horseshoe Bay, 20 minutes’ You could visit the 180km the marvellous little capital good place to charter a boat is a lumber milling centre or (one morning when I’m
drive out of Vancouver. I wake coast on a day trip, just of British Columbia. Another for salmon and trout fishing. with few cultural pretensions feeling frisky) brave a chilly
up in the city with rain at about, but there are dozens highly scenic car-ferry 30km on, Sechelt is twice and little appeal beyond swim. There are hundreds of
the hotel windows, but once of inlets and indentations to ride will take you back to as big. I find an interesting a harbour for diving and small islands, some linked
I’m onto the water magic explore. To really appreciate Vancouver. museum devoted to the kayaking trips. by passenger ferries like
happens. Suddenly the mist the region, spend at least two There are only three small Sechelt Indian Nation, and a Don’t stick just to the Gambier Island near Gibsons,
breaks open, the sun pushes or three days, and stay in a towns of consequence along salmon hatchery that gives highway and towns though. a tranquil retreat for writers
through, and the bay fizzes secluded lodge or B&B off the Sunshine Coast. The first an insight into the life cycle Venture down side roads. and artists.
blue at the ferry’s wake. the main road. is Gibsons, a quiet seaside of Canada’s famous fish. The I find the Sunshine Coast You can also hike some
Passengers emerge from the The road is Highway 101, community where the town is lively with cafés and is a place to breathe deep, of the 180km of Sunshine
ferry’s interior, unfolding which twists and turns as it morning catch is unloaded art galleries. In contrast, smell the pine trees, gaze Coast Trail through alpine
from their cocoons of clothes skirts inlets and peninsulas, from fishing smacks. It’s a Powell River at highway’s end across the water, hike, kayak meadows and ancient
18 Travel & Cruise Weekly Spring 2019 Travel & Cruise Weekly Spring 2019 19forests of cedar and Douglas fir,
inhabited by coyotes, racoons and
eagles. Sargeant Bay is a magnet
for birdwatchers, home to redwings,
mallards, Canada geese, kingfishers
SOMEWHERE INSPIRING
and herons. Princess Louisa Marine
Park has a spectacular fjord with
roaring waterfalls and pristine
wilderness, best seen by boat or
seaplane. You’ll also find excellent
AT EVERY GIVEN MOMENT.
cold-water diving: check out the
sunken warship off Porpoise Bay
Provincial Park, now transformed
into an artificial reef.
Skookumchuk Narrows Provincial
Park has a tide that flows back and
forwards through the narrow inlet
so fiercely you hear the sea roar.
The whirlpools are big enough to
swallow a ship. There are people
kayaking here too: mad Canadians
who surf the tidal waves, hurtling
seawards with impressive skill,
paddles flying. I’m just happy to
kayak the bays and enjoy the sun
and seals. Somewhere under my
boat, I like to think that whales are
singing, happy like me to be here.
Top and
middle: You
can hike the
Sunshine Coast
Trail which
extends for
180km through
forests and
mountains
©Destination
BC/Andrew
Strain
Bottom:
Highway 101
finishes at the
township of From the enormous heights of the Canadian Rockies to the wild fjords of Alaska.
Powell River Rocky Mountaineer’s rail journeys and packages match up perfectly to cruise departure
©Destination
BC/Andrew dates making the two experiences one seamless and unforgettable journey.
Strain
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or customize a package that meets your every need.
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20 Travel & Cruise Weekly Spring 2019Capital attractions
As the power capital of the a four-hour drive southwest selfie taken in front of the
United States, Washington DC of New York City, the District White House, or a moment
has, at times, been unfairly of Columbia has a resident with the imposing statue of
lumped with a reputation population of about 630,000 Abraham Lincoln. At almost
as a conservative town of people – roughly twice the six metres, the former
politicians. The truth is size of Canberra. president’s seated marble
Thriving cultural life, delicious dining and unmissable landmarks a city far more dynamic Sure, the political and statue dominates the Lincoln
make Washington DC a destination worth visiting. If the historical and appealing to visitors. historic landmarks must be Memorial.
Located on the east coast seen. No visit to Washington A wander along the
landmarks don’t do it for you, the food will, as Kristie Kellahan writes. of the United States, about DC is complete without a National Mall – the name
22 Travel & Cruise Weekly Spring 2019given to the tree-lined space between that will please kids and grown-ups Below: The
National Mall
the White House and the US Capitol alike with its role play and fascinating stretches from
Building – turns up a dozen free insider intel. the US Capital
museums that rank among the world’s Cheering on the hometown sports Building to
the White
best in the fields of art, science and teams with a cold beer in hand House and
history. is a great way to meet the locals. includes the
But dig a little deeper and you’ll On the baseball field it’s all about Washington
Monument and
discover a thriving food-truck scene the Washington Nationals, while in the Lincoln
with tasty cuisine from every corner of the National Football League, the Memorial
the globe served hot and fresh from Washington Redskins are considered Right top: The
mobile kitchens whose whereabouts the one of the most valuable Spy Museum is
are avidly followed on Twitter and professional sports team in the sure to please
young and old
Instagram. United States.
Look beyond the modern art Explore the city’s open spaces Right below:
galleries and natural history exhibits and well-designed CBD on a rented Bicycle is
a popular
and be wowed by the Newseum, an bicycle, or stand to attention and see form of
unmissable museum dedicated to the sights from a motorised Segway. transportation
international news media and the With many of the war memorials and around the city
defence of the freedoms of the First historic buildings spread out around
Amendment of the United States the city, it’s handy to zip around on
Constitution. Get a taste of the two wheels.
undercover life at the International Befitting a city that attracts
Spy Museum, an interactive attraction legions of visitors from the worlds of
diplomacy, politics and business, DC is home
to many top-notch luxury hotels. You can stay
at the Watergate Hotel – part of the Watergate
complex forever linked to the scandal which
cost Richard Nixon his presidency, while the
Embassy Row Hotel features 231 guest rooms.
Formerly the Hilton Washington Embassy Row,
the hotel is located in one of the city’s finest
locales: historic Dupont Circle. Surrounded
by embassies and within walking distance to
dozens of restaurants and galleries, the hotel
has one of the city’s few rooftop pools. With
DC summers guaranteed to be hot and sticky,
the combination of a pool and bar will be
welcomed by many visitors to the area.
The hotel’s Station Kitchen & Cocktails
restaurant is just one address in DC’s
burgeoning food scene. Fuelled by local
innovators and entrepreneurs, the culinary
melting pot is heating up. The New York Times
reported that a new restaurant opens in
Washington DC “every week”. Celebrity chefs
including Momofuku’s David Chang, French
24 Travel & Cruise Weekly Spring 2019wonder Daniel Boulud and
Wolfgang Puck all have
restaurants in DC.
You can eat anywhere
from Michelin-starred
chef’s restaurants, such
as Officina, opened by
Nicholas Stefanelli to the
low key outdoor pizza bar
at No Kisses and sister
restaurant Sonny’s, with
its old school vibes and
rectangular pizza pies.
Time your visit to
coincide with Washington
DC Restaurant Week, when
more than 200 of the city’s Top: No visit
to Washington
best restaurants slash is complete
prices to offer 3-course without seeing
brunches and lunches for the White
House
US$22 and 3-course dinners
for US$35. The event is held Middle: Ana at
District Winery
twice a year – in the winter is just one
and summer – and includes of the city’s
French, American, Pan- restaurant
scene
Asian, Southern cuisine and ©Destination
much more. DC
Perhaps the best time of
Below: Visitors
all to visit the capital is in in spring will
April when warm springtime get the chance
weather ushers in cherry to see the city
full of cherry
blossom season. A wildly blossoms
popular festival is held
each year to celebrate the
beautiful blossoming of
more than 3,000 cherry
trees that Japan gifted
to the US. Photography
enthusiasts and nature
lovers aren’t the only ones
to go weak-kneed for the
glorious explosion of pink
and white blossoms all over
the city; visitors come from We love to travel We love to travel just as much as you do.
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spectacle.
No matter which season
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you visit Washington DC,
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