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Relationships with suppliers – you know when you’re visiting your neighborhood restaurant where the servers are familiar and give you a new dessert to try with your meal sometimes? Companies and people love to reward loyalty and the same is true about travel providers. Travel advisors have relationships with these companies and their staff and want to keep that relationship mutually beneficial! The suppliers know that if they can keep their travel advisors’ clients happy, they’ll be more likely to send more people their way. Sometimes this can translate into extra attention, free upgrades, or even things like chocolate-covered strawberries in your room! Knowledge about products – what’s the best travel insurance and should you get it? If something were to go wrong or there were any last-minute changes, which suppliers have the best cancellation policies? Ask your advisor! They treat knowledge about travel like it’s their job (because it is!) Better rates / added benefits – you won’t...

As in many other workplaces, the coronavirus pandemic created some temporary work delays and slowdowns at shipyards that build new cruise vessels. That’s changed the expected launch dates for some highly anticipated new ships, which usually take two to three years to design and build. While launch dates may change again, here’s what we know now about some great new ships you can look forward to sailing on. MSC Cruises Virtuosa is expected to launch in early 2021. This ship, built to carry more than 6,000 passengers, is expected to have unique entertainment spaces like a fine art museum, an onboard Cirque du Soleil show, a multistory amusement park, and an indoor promenade covered with a beautiful LED-lighted dome and lined with restaurants, bars and shops. Odyssey of the Seas , Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s second Quantum Ultra-class ship, is expected to launch in April 2021. It’s also expected to have many of the most popular features found on other Quantum-class ships, such as b...

Many people think of a cruise as something to do with a partner or friend. However, cruising on your own can be a fun and truly relaxing vacation. You can do whatever you want on ship and shore, without having to negotiate with a companion. And, it’s easy to meet other passengers for an enjoyable social time. Still, there can be a financial consequence to cruising solo. Most staterooms are designed for two, and if you reserve one just for yourself, you may have to pay the same as if two people were sharing the stateroom (this is commonly known as the “single supplement”). In other words: not every ship has staterooms for one, priced for one. But as interest in solo cruising grows, more cruise lines are creating staterooms (and pricing) designed for solo travelers. Here’s a look at some of them. Norwegian Cruise Line is often credited with starting the trend toward more single staterooms with the launch of the Epic in 2010. The ship has 128 “studio” staterooms for one, grouped ar...

During the past 10 years or so, a towering new feature has appeared on the top decks of quite a few cruise ships. Big waterslides have been added to or integrated into the original design of some popular, family-oriented cruise ships; and they provide all the thrills of the tallest waterslides at land-based resorts, with the bonus of stunning sea views. Several Royal Caribbean ships feature The Perfect Storm, twin “racer” slides that let you and a friend (or a perfect stranger) race each other down intertwining chutes. Oasis-class ships also have champagne-bowl slides – you’ll spin around the “bowl” before descending into a plunge pool (no champagne is actually present in the bowl, just water). The Liberty of the Seas has a unique Tidal Wave slide, where you’ll ride an inner tube down a steep, watery slope. Then, there’s The Blaster on the Navigator of the Seas – the longest water slide (or, more correctly, water coaster) at sea, with two-person inner tubes so you can slide with a...