Discover the Azamara Difference: Unforgettable Cruise Experiences
14 Sep 2025by Fine Travel
Explore Why Azamara's Smaller Ships, Longer Stays, and Unique Experiences Make for an Unparalleled Cruising Adventure The Advantages of Smaller Ships Azamara's fleet of four smaller, elegantly designed ships offers a unique advantage for those seeking an intimate and immersive cruise holiday experie...
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Discover Silversea's New Fare Structure: The Luxury of Choice
14 Sep 2025by Fine Travel
Explore how Silversea Cruises' new fare structure, 'The Luxury of Choice,' offers unparalleled flexibility and value for your next ultra-luxury voyage. Introducing 'The Luxury of Choice': A New Fare Structure Silversea Cruises, renowned for its ultra-luxury offerings, has introduced a new fare struc...
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It’s ‘Buyer Beware’ when purchasing art on holiday
31 Aug 2025In this guest piece, Art Valuer Briar Williams shares her insight into the risks of buying art, particularly for investment, when on holiday. Whilst strolling the beach front shops in a warm and exotic location or taking part in the non-stop events on offer while on a cruise holiday, it is very temp...
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Time travelling – An Onboard Review of Oceania Cruises
31 Jul 2025by Fine Travel
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 2025by Fine Travel
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 2025by Fine Travel
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 2025by Fine Travel
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 2025by Fine Travel
“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 2025by Fine Travel
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 2025by Fine Travel
“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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