Travel Maven Blog ...... David Molyneaux posts from TheTravelMavens.com

Luxurious Seabourn Quest cruises with a younger crowd

With bargain rates on many cruise ships at $100-$150 a day or less per person, why would a couple on vacation spend $500- $1,000 a day, each, for a cruise?

A man is his 50s asked me that question recently at a party. He was concerned also that his wife was about to book him on a luxury cruise ship full of sedentary old people.
 
It’s a legitimate financial question and an understandable concern by a physically active man who did not want to be stuck on vacation, bored and bloated, bobbing on the sea.
 
I answered by describing my recent voyages on two of Seabourn’s newest ships.

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Cruising on Costa Favolosa, a naming ceremony in Trieste

As many as 10,000 local townsfolk and formally-attired invited guests watched an extravagant naming ceremony Saturday night in Trieste, Italy, for a new cruise ship, the 3,800-passenger Costa Favolosa.

Favolosa, now Costa’s largest vessel, was built near Venice, but it was the first major ship christened in ancient Trieste in 50 years. The event also was part of national celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.

Actors, musicians, and dancers provided a spectacular show at Trieste’s Piazza Unita d’Italia, said to be Europe’s biggest square. The dancers included a woman in filmy white who  soared above the audience, held aloft by helium balloons on a windy night as she moved to the sounds of a classical piano performce by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi.