Caribbean

Aloe: Aruba’s Miracle Crop

  Heading for Aruba Aloe Museum and Factory I knew next to nothing about the plant or how it is harvested, but I have long been a fan of its seemingly miraculous beauty and medicinal properties, so I left behind the beach and headed inland for a…

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Virgin sails into the cruise business for 2020

Richard Branson, whose Virgin brand is slapped on everything from mobile phones to megastores and especially airlines is now launching a cruise ship line, to be called…of course…Virgin Cruises.   The line will start operations in 2020 with…

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Seaborne, JetBlue to code-share Caribbean flights

Seaborne Airlines and JetBlue are hooking up for some Caribbean codeshares that will let JetBlue sell tickets to destinations in the Virgin Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Martinique and the Dominican Republic.   Seaborne, originally based in the…

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JetBlue looking south to Mexico, Ecuador

JetBlue is starting to take on a real international tinge, adding Mexico City to its destination list for this year, and opening service to Ecuador in 2016. JetBlue already serves over 30 cities in the Caribbean and Latin America.   The Mexico…

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Disney Cruises return to NYC, Galveston

Disney’s cruise line division made a little magic onboard Disney Magic this week, with a glitzy announcement of a series of cruises starting October 2016 from New York, and from Galveston. Complete with Minnie Mouse dressed as the Statue of Liberty…

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Aloe: Aruba’s Miracle Crop

  Heading for Aruba Aloe Museum and Factory I knew next to nothing about the plant or how it is harvested, but I have long been a fan of its seemingly miraculous beauty and medicinal properties, so I left behind the beach and headed inland for a…

Read More

Virgin sails into the cruise business for 2020

Richard Branson, whose Virgin brand is slapped on everything from mobile phones to megastores and especially airlines is now launching a cruise ship line, to be called…of course…Virgin Cruises.   The line will start operations in 2020 with…

Read More

Seaborne, JetBlue to code-share Caribbean flights

Seaborne Airlines and JetBlue are hooking up for some Caribbean codeshares that will let JetBlue sell tickets to destinations in the Virgin Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Martinique and the Dominican Republic.   Seaborne, originally based in the…

Read More

JetBlue looking south to Mexico, Ecuador

JetBlue is starting to take on a real international tinge, adding Mexico City to its destination list for this year, and opening service to Ecuador in 2016. JetBlue already serves over 30 cities in the Caribbean and Latin America.   The Mexico…

Read More

Disney Cruises return to NYC, Galveston

Disney’s cruise line division made a little magic onboard Disney Magic this week, with a glitzy announcement of a series of cruises starting October 2016 from New York, and from Galveston. Complete with Minnie Mouse dressed as the Statue of Liberty…

Read More