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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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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Milestone Reached for Holland America Line’s new ms Koningsdam
30 Jul 2025by Fine Travel
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 2025by Fine Travel
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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28 Jul 2025by Jennie Ready
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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2022 Viking Cruise from Barcelona to Auckland
22 Jul 2025by Fine Travel
With Viking’ s 2023-2024 World Cruise proving so popular, there are options to think laterally and combine voyages to create a memorable cruise holiday from Barcelona to Auckland. The combined voyage departs Barcelona on 11 October 2022 and arrive in Auckland 92 days later on 10 January 2023. Beyond...
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A focus on Regent Seven Seas ship the Seven Seas Mariner
22 Jul 2025by Fine Travel
With Regent Seven Seas Mariner cruising the South Pacific and offering cruises from New Zealand over the summer I thought an inside look at some of the information available on the Fine Travel cruise website about her suites and offerings was timely. Learn More About How to Choose Your Cruise Holida...
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