![Channel Your Inner Van Gogh on this Avalon Discovery Shore Excursion in Amsterdam](https://cdn2.gttwl.net/attachments/63717799194398357_original.jpg?auto=enhance&q=80&h=480&w=640#tatid:17762717)
Channel Your Inner Van Gogh on this Avalon Discovery Shore Excursion in Amsterdam
What happens when you put three non-painters in a painting workshop? Can you really learn to paint like Van Gogh in an afternoon? Those were the questions on all our minds as we walked to an art atelier near where our river cruise ship, the Avalon Vista, was docked in the heart of Amsterdam.By: Lynn Elmhirst, BestTripTVI'm creative but I...
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The Chinese New Year Dish You Need To Try This Year
Kung Hey Fat Choi! Chinese New Year celebrations brighten up the winter months throughout Asia and Asian communities around the world. It's the most important date on the Lunar calendar and includes weeks of festivities with family and friends from late January through March. Many activities give everyone a chance to get into the spirit of a fresh, healthy, happy...
![Discover Amsterdam's Local Food Scene on this Avalon Waterways Shore Excursion](https://cdn2.gttwl.net/attachments/63716788589340032_original.jpg?auto=enhance&q=80&h=480&w=640#tatid:17761364)
Discover Amsterdam's Local Food Scene on this Avalon Waterways Shore Excursion
Everyone wants to try 'real' local food when they travel. But we don't always have a real local to point us in the right direction.That's why we loved our Avalon Waterways' culinary tour of the Jordaan, a walking-sipping-snacking tour of the revitalized neighborhood in Amsterdam. It gets you out of the tourist core and into the heart of the Dutch...
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6 Reasons We Love Seabourn Cruises to Alaska
America's Last Frontier is a destination everyone should visit at least once in a lifetime of travel. Alaska's vast, untouched waters and shores are rich in breathtaking scenery and abundant land and marine wildlife in an unparalleled spectacle of Nature.Cruising along the pristine, emerald coast between British Columbia and Alaska is one of the very best perspectives and ways to...
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Have You Heard About OceaniaNEXT?
Oceania Cruises is making a triple-play of transformations, breathtaking in scope, that have already begun. When complete over the next few years these three tremendous changes will elevate all of the things you love about Oceania, and give you even more to experience.A $100-million re-imagination of its four, 684-guest Regatta-class ships to make them 'better than new'A thousand artisans have...
![Las Vegas Has a New Culinary Destination](https://cdn1.gttwl.net/attachments/Screen_Shot_2018_12_17_at_9_53_20_PM_63712320837584683.png?auto=enhance&q=80&h=480&w=640#tatid:17755619)
Las Vegas Has a New Culinary Destination
24 hours a day, 40,000 square feet, 400 types of wines from all 20 Italian wine regions, 2 restaurants, 3 bars, an educational chef's table, 6 food counters representing authentic versions of your favorite Italian delicacies and comfort food plus 5000 retail products you can take home – directly on the Strip. Foodies are asking themselves why Eataly hasn't opened...
![This Ship Has a Magic Carpet - And 8 Other Things You'll Love About the New Celebrity EDGE](https://cdn4.gttwl.net/attachments/63711402788684436_original.jpg?auto=enhance&q=80&h=480&w=640#tatid:17754675)
This Ship Has a Magic Carpet - And 8 Other Things You'll Love About the New Celebrity EDGE
The Celebrity EDGE has launched and is turning heads at every port. Its standout sleek, urban resort styling and game-changing technology have a high point: the Magic Carpet.You'll see what we mean in the video above. But the Magic Carpet isn't the only showstopper on the EDGE. You'll also fall in love with: 1. The Resort Deck, encompassed by an outward-facing, untraditionally...
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Champagne Vending Machine at this NOLA Hotel Makes Every Day New Year's Eve
The motto of New Orleans is 'Let the Good Times Roll'. Nowhere is that more true than at the local Ritz-Carlton, which now boasts the area's first permanent champagne vending machine.This classy, tongue-in-cheek interpretation of lobby fixtures in sadder hotels holds 320 'piccolo' (mini) bottles of liquid celebration, and blends right into the hotel's festive seasonal décor and events.A nearly...
![This Ship Has a Magic Carpet - And 8 Other Things You'll Love About the New Celebrity EDGE](https://cdn3.gttwl.net/attachments/63711402788684436_original.jpg?auto=enhance&q=80&h=480&w=640#tatid:17757501)
This Ship Has a Magic Carpet - And 8 Other Things You'll Love About the New Celebrity EDGE
The Celebrity EDGE has launched and is turning heads at every port. Its standout sleek, urban resort styling and game-changing technology have a high point: the Magic Carpet.You'll see what we mean in the video above. But the Magic Carpet isn't the only showstopper on the EDGE. You'll also fall in love with: 1. The Resort Deck, encompassed by an outward-facing, untraditionally...