Sweepstakes Winners

Every Quarter Dream Vacations holds a Vacation Sweepstakes. Unfortunately, not everyone can win the BIG prize. But we consider everyone who enters this contest through our website a winner. So, we created our own giveaway called “You’re A Winner in

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Cruise News

Maui Fire Update

Aloha, Please see the latest update from the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority regarding the devastating wildfires affecting areas on Maui. Please share this information as broadly as possible. We will continue to keep you informed. Mālama pono,John Monahan Maui Wildfires UpdateAugust

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Cruise News

Celebrity Cruise Lines Increases Gratuities

Celebrity Cruise Lines Celebrity Cruise Lines has announced that as of July 11, 2023, they will be increasing their daily gratuities amounts to $18.00 per person per day. This new gratuity rate of $18.00 will be charged for inside, Oceanview,

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Travel

World Travel Trivia

World Travel Trivia. Test Your Travel Knowledge! Try our fun “World Travel Trivia” quiz to see how many questions you can get. Click the Plus sign on the right of the question to get the answer. Q. How long is

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Travel Tips

Annoying Labels

Remove Those Annoying Labels You’ve traveled and brought home some goodie to display, but they have those annoying labels that seem impossible to get off. Get your hair dryer and aim the heat towards the label for just 30-60 seconds.

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Families Afloat - Cruising with Kids

Best Cruise Lines for Families and Children

Best Cruise Lines for Families and Children Even as a cruise consumer, I am a Disney fanatic but as a Travel Agent, I realize that not everyone who wants to cruise is partial to Disney for a family vacation. There

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Adventures

Our pre-cruise adventure (of sorts)

Our pre-cruise adventure (of sorts) We live in Virginia, we are cruising out of Bayonne, NJ tomorrow on the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas. What normally should have been a 4-4.5 hr. drive took us 7 hrs. Had we

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Travel

Malama Loko Ia

M Malama Loko Ia The Hawaiian word malama means “to care for.” In Hawaii, we malama aina (“care for the land”) by protecting and preserving our landscapes and natural resources, such as our streams, mountains, forests and even our state parks and

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Contests

Win Free Resort Vacation

Win a 5-Night Moon Palace Resort Vacation Giveaway (valued at $5,200) Enter to Win Get ready to escape to a luscious tropical paradise and spend your days by powdery white sands and glistening waters! Enter to Wina 5-Night Moon Palace

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Travel Quotes

Storms

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. ~ Louisa May Alcott

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Alaska Reopens To Cruising in 2021!
Alaska Adventures

Alaska Reopens To Cruising in 2021!

Alaska Reopens To Cruising in 2021! The first cruise ship in nearly two years has been welcomed back to Alaska Alaska Reopens To Cruising in 2021! Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas visited Ketchikan, Alaska after a cease of operations

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Travel

Booking with a Travel Agent

Booking with a Travel Agent is more useful than ever! Booking with a Travel Agent is more useful than ever! Dreaming about travel? Looking for a great deal on airfares? Know who to call if something goes wrong? Dreaming about

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Alaska Adventures

Travel Tidbit: Fall Foliage In Alaska

USA: Alaska’s spectacular Fall Foliage is world renown and is the most popular with leaf peepers. If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour. Victoria Erickson But don’t visit too late because the change

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Aloha Hawaii

Top 10 Reasons to Cruise the Hawaiian Islands

USA: Recently the Norwegian Pride of America came out of dry dock after a $30million renovation and upgrade. As part of that upgrade, they added 32 newly created ocean view balcony suites plus created studio staterooms for solo cruise travelers.  Kahuna Nui

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Travel

11 Years & Added 1 Partner

August 2007 I started my very own travel agency as an Independent Contractor with Cruises, Inc. August 2007 I started my very own travel agency as an Independent Contractor with Cruises, Inc. Like in my business he is also my

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Becoming Friends

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou

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2014 New Year Wishes

As This New Year begins I want to send everyone good wishes to everyone. May this year be filled with love & laughter, health & happiness plus peace & prosperity.

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Travel News

Cancellation Changes Announced For Amtrak

Travel News: Here are the changes coming to Amtrak refund policy that has just been announced. I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care

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Travel

A World Of Thanks This Thanksgiving

On this Thanksgiving, I just wanted you to know that I have truly enjoyed working with each and every one of you and feel honored to be your chosen Travel Agent. What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about

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Airplane Flights

You  define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash,  you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you  are grateful. Paul  Theroux

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Cruise News

Tampa To Host Two Royal Caribbean Ships

Royal Carribean: In November 2014 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines will have two ships departing from the Tampa Cruise Terminal. It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. Sir Francis Drake It’s newest ship

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Travel

China Has A Princess Visiting Soon

Bermuda: Princess Cruise Lines has announced that their ship Sapphire Princess will be sailing from China in Summer 2014. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

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Cruise News

New Cruise Lingo App Introduced

Bermuda: Celebrity Cruise Lines has introduced a new ‘Cruise Lingo’ app available now for smartphones and it is free to download. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use

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Disney News & Noteworthy Tidbits

Free Disney Dining Offer Ending Soon

Disney: Last Chance! Free Dining Plan Offer at the Walt Disney World Resort What could be more important than a little something to eat? Winnie the Pooh Time is running out! Get a FREE* Disney Dining Plan when you purchase

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Cruise News

Norwegians in Belize?

Belize: That is right, Norwegians in Belize! We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment Hilaire Belloc Norwegian Cruise Lines recently completed the purchase of 75 acres of island property on Harvest Cay, off the southern side of the

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Sight-Seeing

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.  The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.  He goes “sight-seeing.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin

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When You’re Traveling

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds.  When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then.  People don’t have your past to hold against you.  No

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Seeing The Moon

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany

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