The VanderMarck: Sleek & Stylish Boutique Hotel in Collingwood, ON

SLEEK AND STYLISH, this boutique hotel wasn’t designed for these tumultuous times – but it feels as if it might have been. Created without a front desk, each check-in is completed remotely, and guests access the building, and their suites,...

Having A Whale Of A Time In Quebec

WHO KNEW THAT WHALES COULD FLY? We had been following two magnificent humpback whales for several minutes as they swam beside our Zodiac. Our driver kept a respectful distance, but the curious whales were not shy. They surfaced, arcing their...

Staying Places: The Magnolia Hotel & Spa

WHEN I HEARD that TripAdvisor readers voted Victoria’s Magnolia Hotel & Spa the #1 hotel in Canada in 2020, I knew I had to experience it.On a side street just off the Inner Harbour, it’s perfectly placed to explore Victoria...

The Maritimes: When You Must Go Down to the Sea Again – A Photo Essay

With his vibrant images, Maritime-born photographer Dan Galbraith offers a compelling argument for adding Canada’s Maritime provinces to the top of our travel wish list.Come for thousands of kilometres of spectacular coastlineFrom the world’s highest tides in New Brunswick, to...

Antarctic Eclipse: Scenic’s New Six-Star Discovery Yacht Offers a Game-Changing Mix of Luxury and the Strength Worthy of Polar Expeditions

IT’S BEEN SMOOTH sailing for some 10 days, this sleek discovery yacht slicing through icy blue polar waters with little more than a tilt to port, or starboard. In places remote and extreme, she has navigated into narrow passages, through...

Revisiting The Idyllic Adriatic By Yacht

ANTICIPATION IS running at full throttle for the day that I can return to cruising. Not just because of a fabulous super yacht being custom designed to sail the warm waters of the Adriatic, the Red and Mediterranean Seas. Not...

Mount Fuji and 3 Other Mountains You Need to Visit in Japan

About Japan

France has the Eiffel Tower. The U.S. has the Statue of Liberty. But the visual shorthand for Japan is not man-made. It’s Mount Fuji.The Japanese archipelago is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Chains of volcanic mountain ranges form the spine of...

Cruising Again by November? Industry Association Lays Out Formula to Start Sailing

About Caribbean

You might be on a cruise in the Caribbean before the holidays. Cruising in the Americas – that’s the cruise region for the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America - could begin again in about a month’s time, if significant industry...

3 New, Impossibly Picturesque Boutique Hotels That Make it Easy to Dream About Your Next Trip to Europe

About Europe

France. Italy. Spain. If you’re imagining traveling again to Europe, you’ll have no problem picturing yourself in any of three independent boutique hotels that have just opened in spectacular historic properties. All three belong to the Small Luxury Hotels of...

Revealed for the 1st Time: This Hotel’s Famous Cookie Recipe

Challenging times call for fresh-baked cookies. For your COVID-19 #StaySafeStayHome pleasure, a cookie recipe for all the home baking and snacking we hear everyone is enjoying during lock down.Not just any cookie recipe. These are cookies of legend.They are the welcoming...

Santa Fe: Falling in Love with the Many Charms of “The City Different”

IT DIDN’T TAKE US LONG to realize why Santa Fe is dubbed, The City Different. For starters, it is an old city — older than the USA itself. And, at 7,000 feet, the nation’s highest state capital. Here, the history...

Soaring on the Slopes

Where the snow is perfect, the hills are fabulous and the après ski fun is as hot as the snow is cold: Park City, Utah; Lake Tahoe, Nevada; and Whistler, British Columbia. Park City Perfection IF YOU LOVE SKIING but don’t want...