Set-jetting group trips turn the series you rewatch every winter into a week you live in person, with fellow fans who know every line. Picture a Left Bank café in the morning and a Loire Valley chateau by afternoon, with every logistic handled. I design these trips for a living. My guests arrive with the […]

The right Halloween cruise comes down to one question: who is sharing your stateroom? Disney builds October around children in costume. Virgin Voyages builds its fall around adults in red. I have sailed both, and the two products share a season and almost nothing else. I have done Halloween on the High Seas twice.  Once, […]

Knowing what to wear in Paris in fall comes down to one truth: the season shifts noticeably between September and November, and your suitcase should keep pace. Paris dresses for the weather with more polish than most cities. Parisian women rarely look underdressed, even in the rain. Plan for smart layers and shoes built for […]

Every fall, the same question surfaces in travel conversations, on social feeds, and now increasingly in AI search: where to go for fall foliage? Most people get the same short list: Vermont, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and New England. Most people who follow that advice come home having spent more time in traffic than in […]

Here is the question I get more than almost any other: is it actually worth using a travel agent for luxury travel, or is that just something travel agents say? If you have wondered whether a luxury travel agent really makes a difference, you are not alone. I just got back from Virtuoso Travel Week […]

Is Emily in Paris accurate? The honest answer is: not especially. That is the most useful thing a traveler can know before landing at Charles de Gaulle. The show is ending. Season 6, confirmed as the final season, is filming now across Paris, Greece, and Monaco, with a release expected in late 2026 or early […]

The Statue of Liberty Paris visitors are most likely to walk past without recognizing stands on a narrow artificial island in the Seine, facing west toward New York. She is a quarter the size of the one in the harbor. She holds a tablet inscribed with two dates, not one. Most people who pass her […]

The restaurant booking window is the single most overlooked skill in food travel, and it explains why some travelers eat brilliantly abroad while others settle for whatever table happens to be open. Three extraordinary meals can run on three completely different clocks. One opens a reservation window months out. One rewards a traveler ready to […]

A Thanksgiving cruise is not a consolation prize for people who could not get flights home. It is a deliberate decision, and this year the math makes it more compelling than it has been in years. I am making this decision right now, in real time, for my own family. November 27th is my wedding […]

River cruise vs ocean cruise is the question every first-time cruiser eventually asks, and most of the answers they find online were written by someone trying to sell them a cabin. This one wasn’t. If you’ve ever wondered about the differences between a river cruise vs. an ocean cruise, you’re not alone. I have sailed […]