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Luxury Travel Articles
Europe for Visitors:
Santavenere Hotel -
Maratea, Italy
Richard Burton and Frank Sinatra are just a few of the celebrities who have
stayed at the 5-star Santavenere Hotel in Maratea, Italy, a little-known gem of a resort on the Gulf of Policastro south of Naples. Also
see my Maratea, Italy,
Locanda delle Donne Monache, and
Caseus Prize articles, plus 74
Maratea photos.
Riffelalp Resort Zermatt
More than 40 years after the legendary Riffelalp Grand Hotel was destroyed by
fire, a new and more intimate resort hotel occupies its site on a mountain
plateau overlooking the Matterhorn and Zermatt, Switzerland.
Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich
The only hotel at Munich
International Airport is a short walk from the terminals and the
München Airport Center shopping mall.
Hyatt Regency
London - The Churchill
If you can afford luxury comforts in a prime location, try this five-star
hotel on Portman Square in London's West End.
Venice for Visitors:
Hotel Cipriani
Venice's most exclusive resort hotel is just three minutes by private launch
from St. Mark's Square.
Luna Hotel Baglioni
Crusaders slept at Venice's oldest hotel in 1118. Nearly 900 years later,
the Luna is still serving luxury-minded guests at the same location next to
the Piazza San Marco and Napoleon's Royal Gardens.
San Clemente Palace
This luxury hotel on a beautifully landscaped 17-acre private island has 205
rooms, a swimming pool and tennis courts, and its own 12th Century church.
The hotel is 15 minutes from San Marco by private launch.
MS Casanova
Peter Deilmann's 96-passenger, five-star boutique vessel offers a uniquely
European style of river cruising on the Rhine,
Danube, Moselle, and Rhine-Main Canal. My review includes an illustrated 9-page
article and 41 cruise photos
with captions.
Viking River Cruises: Southern
France
Follow the Viking Burgundy from Chalon-sur-Saōne
to Avignon, with stops in Lyon, Arles, and other inland ports. My
192-page report includes a cruise review and
photo gallery.
Oceania's Regatta
A new "upper-premium" cruise line offers destination-oriented voyages in
Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and points in between. In my Regatta
review, I describe a two-week cruise and nine ports of call from Dover to
Barcelona.
Silver
Whisper Mediterranean Cruise
Read an illustrated account of a 12-day voyage from Athens to Rome and view a
photo gallery
with 61 pictures.
Silversea Cruises: "Scotland's
Tattoo"
This sequel to our Mediterranean cruise article takes the
Silver Whisper
(and you) from Copenhagen to London Tilbury by way of Scotland, Northern
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Belgium. It includes 65 new
Silversea
pictures.
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