Visiting Italy, France and Spain onboard Star Legend earlier this year was unexpectedly magnificent. I say unexpectedly because I learned then that this part of the Riviera has, for centuries, been a winter haven for northern Europeans. I get it now. The late winter week was pleasantly cool, I loved the calmer-than-summer ambience, there was […] The post This May Surprise You: Winter Can Be the Most Magical Time to Cruise in the Mediterranean appeared first on Windstar Cruises Travel Blog.| Windstar Cruises Travel Blog
On most cruise ships, you can see the water, but you can’t get in it without going through the process of taking an excursion or finding your way to a beach or access point of some sort. While both of these styles of exploring are fun, the watersports platforms on the rear of Windstar's yachts (that's the stern, by the way) bring the sea to you in a much simpler way.| Windstar Cruises Travel Blog
And yet, here’s the thing: in the spirit of adventure, would you purposely set out on a cruise where you didn’t know where you were going? Yes!| Windstar Cruises Travel Blog
Debbie Dixon recently returned from a two-week Atlantic crossing on Wind Star and was still feeling the glow from the trip, which she describes as transformative. “It was such a great place to change the dynamic of what cruising is,” she tells me a few days after arriving home. “It’s an opportunity to lean into […]| Windstar Cruises Travel Blog
And soon we were being guided to Wind Spirit where she stood waiting, docked, just back from a previous voyage but shipshape and awaiting her new and eager voyagers. It’s not a big ship. It only has about 130 cabins. But it’s a sleek, tight sailing vessel with six sails that would soon be unfurled.| Windstar Cruises Travel Blog