Windstar Cruises Travel Blog

As a huge fan of Facebook’s Windstar Cruises Official Yacht Club Members & Fan Club page, it is totally satisfying to check out what fellow travelers want to know (or are experiencing onboard, often live!) about cruise. We love hearing your insights in letters that yo...

I’m not very good at relaxing on vacation. Invariably, I bring a new book, determined to spend quiet time reading. I imagine myself sitting back, soaking up the sun, dozing off here and there to the lullaby of lapping waves. And the book comes back unopened. It never even leaves the bag. Instead, my camera roll is loaded with photos of activities and adventures, and I often n...

Recently, Chryssi and Steve Zeleny (pictured above), who traveled on Star Pride in the Caribbean last fall, wrote us a letter that, as a father of two daughters, I have not been able to forget.

Kate Via, one of their four children, newly married and even more newly pregnant, was in a

Barcelona’s iconic La Sagrada Familia (pictured above is its glorious interior stained glass) is now the wo...

We all already know this: Italy is a beautiful country with extensive history and dramatic scenery and yet what keeps us coming back (and we’ve visited both on-land trips and via Windstar cruises from summer to winter) is its culinary and vinophile traditions (among others). Whether the dishes are familiar or not, an Aperol Spritz cocktail, pictured above, simply doesn’t tast...