Travel in parish St. Martin

The Association Les 3 Vallées announces today that, due to negative temperatures and significant early snowfall, Val Thorens will be open a week early with some select slopes skiable from November 18, 2023. These include the Funitel Péclet, the Cascade chairlift and all the magic carpets in the centre of the resort which will be available from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Princess Cruises is bringing back a much-loved set of itineraries that it hasn't offered in years.

My first stay on Anguilla's Meads Bay was more than 20 years ago, and I was a little apprehensive about returning. In memory, it was the best shoreline I'd come across in the Caribbean: uncrowded, wide beaches, family-friendly surf.

Get ready for the Battle of the Cruise Ship Giants out of Miami.

The sun-soaked paradise of Sint Maarten is a magical oasis with sugary beaches and azure water. The 13-square mile Sint Maarten draws travelers from around the world.

There is no good way to tell visitors to Paris that the queue at the Louvre never gets any smaller and the trip itself can turn into a day spent in line. The good news is that there are plenty of other spots to visit that will let you experience the real Paris, the one known to its residents, even during the Olympic Games—many of which are centred around the city's historic bridges, terraces and waterways.

From Mexico to St. Martin, Spain to Jamaica — and quite a few destinations in between, including Bulgaria — Secrets Resorts & Spas have remained a primary player in Hyatt's push toward both luxury and all-inclusive resorts. The luxury brand continues to be one of the best of its kind, impressing Hyatt loyalists and travelers in search of the kind of vacation where you don't have to think about your wallet even once. On top of that, all of the properties are adults-only.

Had I ever seen so much bare flesh in one room? Naked in a mixed-gender Austrian sauna, I sat opposite two dozen other nude people on wooden benches. Even after more than a year of living in Europe, as an American, I still felt a little uncomfortable sitting there in nothing but my own skin.

Paris has long been a city that lovers love, whether you’re proposing marriage, celebrating an anniversary, or looking for an affair to remember. To fire up the passion the next time you’re in the City of Light, Forbes Travel Guide has named the most romantic hotels in Paris—each with a view of the Eiffel Tower.

Unless they’re flying private, travelers to St. Martin and onward to Anguilla and St. Barth have limited options in premium cabins on scheduled carriers. But that changed on February 18th when new service launched on the French airline La Compagnie from Newark Liberty International Airport to Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten. It’s a weekly charter operated on Sundays arranged through the travel company E. Clarke Travel and its new program Travel In Style Journeys which includes personal services and accommodations in top villas and hotels.

To see where Cape Town's cool kids hang out, stop by the Pot Plant Club. Set amid the Victorian row houses on trendy Bree Street, the boutique, cofounded by Salik Harris in 2022, doubles as a social club for locals, who linger at the shop's café and rifle through racks of oversized jackets and denim. The emporium's collection includes emerging labels like Asa Sadan, the Paint Company, and Yarns Worldwide alongside Harris's own streetwear brand, Leaf Apparel. All were founded by talents from the Cape Malay community, a South African ethnic group with a huge impact on the city's cultural life.

If you're ever wondering aloud where the hottest mid-winter celebrations take place, those in-the-know might quietly respond, “St. Barts.” The island's luxe air of mystery and remoteness are part of what makes it a seasonal staple for jet setters and superyachts as they follow the sun to the Caribbean in winter. The festivities rage on until the St. Barths Bucket Regatta in mid-March, but what most visitors don’t realize is that the island is practically a year-round one, since the only time hotels typically shut is at the height of hurricane season (late summer).

The biggest cruise ship ever built is finally in position for its first sailings with paying passengers.

Over 35,000 vacationers visit these paradise destinations between November and April, of which 85% are bareboat bookings (with or without skipper) and 15% are cabin cruises.

It's official: There's a new record-setting giant in the cruise world.

The majority of the boats feature premium equipment such as generators for unrestricted power supply, air-conditioning systems and watermakers for freshwater production.

The opening of a new hotel, a new gallery and two compelling exhibitions in two of my favourite galleries made a pre-Christmas Eurostar dash to Paris irresistible. The draw of the 91-room Bloom House Hotel & Spa, which opened in September (new beds, new everything equals no bedbugs!), is that you can get off the Eurostar at Gare du Nord after a stress-free journey and be having lunch in their courtyard garden oasis 10 minutes later. A green-tiled pond is the focal point, a pergola strung with festoon lighting overhead – perfect for evening cocktails.

Luxury hotel barge cruise company European Waterways has just introduced some new special itineraries visiting Christmas Markets Cruises in Alsace-Lorraine, France.

Mrs. Stacey Liburd, Director of Tourism for the Anguilla Tourist Board (ATB) and Chief Marketing Officer, Ms. Kimberly King, secured a prime exhibit space at IMEX America, held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, NV from October 17 – 19, 2023. IMEX America is the largest trade show in the US for the global meetings, events, and incentive travel industry, attracting more than 5,000+ global decision-makers with real buying power. Suppliers and buyers from every sector of the meetings industry come together at this award-winning show, which brings the meetings industry together to do a year’s worth of business on and off the trade show floor over the four-day program.

The holidays have come early this year for Capital One cardholders when the credit card company launched its first-ever travel sale offering up to $200 off flights and hotels around the world.

Biannual fashion extravaganza London Fashion Week has just wound up after a packed schedule of menswear and womenswear shows, spread across all corners of the capital. Highlights included established designers like Burberry, Paul Costelloe, Molly Goddard, David Koma and Malan Breton’s final show, plus a new crop of designers from BFC NEWGEN and Fashion Scout. London proved its credentials once again as the world’s most innovative fashion hub, with wildly creative designs that included flower pots and bags made from discarded sneakers, laser cut dresses, suits made from upholstery fabric, repurposed army shirts and football jerseys and much more.