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Time travelling – An Onboard Review of Oceania Cruises

31 Jul 2025

Fine Travel Consultant Kylie Bryers joined Oceania Cruises on a voyage through Asia earlier this year. In this article Kylie reflects on her time onboard and what motivates us to travel. Why we travel... We all travel for different reasons. The travel industry will label your trip at some point duri...

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How Expedition Cruises are Reshaping Travel

31 Jul 2025

Travel writer Louise Goldsbury has sailed to remote locations around the world. Here she explains some of the extraordinary experiences on offer from expedition cruise lines in unspoilt destinations across the globe. In the pursuit of ultimate travel experiences, expedition cruising has emerged as o...

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An Onboard Review of Seabourn Encore

31 Jul 2025

When Seabourn’s luxury cruise ship Encore was in Auckland as part of her season in the South Pacific, Seabourn’s New Zealand based representatives invited Fine Travel onboard for a tour. What Makes Seabourn Different Having attended cruise line presentations, ship inspections and spent evenings thum...

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Silversea Launches 2023 and 2024 Cruise Holidays

31 Jul 2025

Silversea Cruises has opened more than 280 new cruise holiday itineraries for 2023/2024, unveiling its largest-ever destination offering in a single itinerary launch. Bringing the total number of destinations visited by the leading ultra-luxury cruise line to over 900—more than any other line—Silver...

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The Luxury of Ponant Cruises

30 Jul 2025

“I’m looking for something special – a cruise holiday that will really capture the imagination of New Zealanders”. “How about Ponant” came the reply. “Their cruise ships have never been to this part of the world and the “L’Austral” will be here at the end of the year”. And so in 2014 my education on...

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A Coral Expeditions Family Holiday to the Great Barrier Reef

30 Jul 2025

When Sarah (one of our specialist small ship cruise wholesale partners) took her sons on a Coral Expedition cruise holiday to the Great Barrier Reef, she didn’t anticipate that it would become the benchmark against which all future (and past) holidays would be measured. Coral Expeditions is an Austr...

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SeaDream Mediterranean Cruises and Small Ships

30 Jul 2025

“It’s yachting, not cruising” the SeaDream Yacht Club proudly states – and on closer investigation, their meaning is clear. At a time when cruise holidays are dominated by “mega ships” make headlines and seemingly squeeze an impressive number of passengers into a floating theme park / shopping mall,...

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Milestone Reached for Holland America Line’s new ms Koningsdam

30 Jul 2025

Seattle, Wash., March 6, 2015 — Holland America Line celebrated another milestone this week in the construction of ms Koningsdam with the float-out and transfer of the ship from its dry dock to its outfitting dock at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Italy. At the outfitting dock, final constructio...

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A Brief Visit to Paris to Join An Avalon River Cruise

28 Jul 2025

Fine Travel’s Founders, Paul & Jenny Collins, travelled to Paris with Singapore Airlines to experience an Avalon River Cruise. We had two nights in Paris prior to our Avalon River Cruise and two more nights after the river cruise. The first two nights we stayed in a charming 4 star small hotel i...

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Onboard Princess Cruises Diamond Princess

28 Jul 2025

VIEW DIAMOND PRINCESS ITINERARIES Princess Cruises’ Diamond Princess is certainly an impressive ship with gross tonnage of 115,875 tons and a length of 291 metres (3 football fields!). Diamond Princess is a big ship choice with a small ship feel. She can carry over 2670 passengers and 1100 crew memb...

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