January 17, 2025
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Windstar Cruises: Costa Rica & Panama Canal If you prefer to sail on a smaller ship, consider booking your Panama Canal cruise with Windstar. The line offers a shorter 7-day itinerary on a 312-guest all-suite motor yacht, Star Pride (pictured above), or on a 148-guest masted sailing yacht, Wind Star or Wind Spirit, from January…
First, it helps to understand the playing field. There are basically three types of websites that people can use to find hotels: OTAs (online travel agencies); the hotels’ own websites, which may offer special member deals OTAs can’t match; and aggregators, or meta-search engines, which don’t actually handle reservations, but trawl both OTAs and hotel…
Jim Cramer's daily rapid fire looks at stocks in the news outside the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. Cloudflare : Shares of the content delivery network were sinking 16% after the midpoint of the company's second-quarter revenue outlook came in short of analyst estimates. "People feel they are losing share. I don't think they are," Cramer…
It’s all too easy to make simple flight booking mistakes that push up the price of airfare. To help you find the best cheap flights, we asked travel experts for the most common pitfalls to avoid.
1. Booking too early Most people know that booking a flight…
First, it helps to understand the playing field. There are basically three types of websites that people can use to find hotels: OTAs (online travel agencies); the hotels’ own websites, which may offer special member deals OTAs can’t match; and aggregators, or meta-search engines, which don’t actually handle reservations, but trawl both OTAs and hotel…
It's almost as if the corporations dominating our lives are determined to make back whatever they missed during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The cost of living is spiraling upward in multiple areas of Americans' lives, but that didn't stop American Airlines from piling on the misery by springing another fee hike on…
Timing is everything when it comes to planning a cruise vacation. Once you’ve decided on the ship and itinerary and have made the down payment, the next step is knowing when to book excursions, specialty dining reservations, spa treatments, and other activities. Getting that right—or wrong—can significantly affect the quality of your trip. After all,…