Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. After more than a year cooped up at home, Americans are hitting the roads and skies again in record numbers, even spurring the coinage of a new term for wanderlust: “Revenge travel.” But while many countries are beginning to reopen to …
Wind Star sailing ship. Or explore for a week on Greek-owned
Variety Cruisesâ 157-foot, 49-passenger sailing yacht
Galileo, going beyond the norm to lesser-known Cycladic and Dodecanese islands such as Levitha, where a summertime restaurant for sailors is run by the one family who lives on the island.
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Vikingâs Malta and Adriatic Jewels Cruise includes port stops in Croatia.
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When
Viking Ocean Cruises returns to cruising this summer, it will have three ships sailing from Valletta on Malta to Greece, Italy, and Spain. Our pick is Vikingâs 10-night
Malta and Adriatic Jewels Cruise, roundtrip from Valletta. The ship gets you to Kotor, Montenegro (youâll want to be on deck as you sail through a river valley surrounded by peaks); the fairy-tale-like Old Town of Dubrovnik, Croatia; the Croatian city of Split with its 4th-century Roman palace; and Gozo, Malta, where according to legend giants built the
Dear Tripped Up,
I know that Europe will soon open to fully vaccinated Americans, but are there any cities or communities in the United States that are encouraging vaccinated people to visit? I would like to travel again, but I’m not ready for a long flight. And I’d also like to support domestic tourism-reliant communities especially those encouraging vaccinations.
Hetal
Dear Hetal,
In a May survey of 1,200 U.S. adults from the tourism market research firm Destination Analysts, nearly 59 percent of respondents said they were unlikely to travel outside the country until the pandemic is resolved. That’s a big difference from a year ago when that figure was around 75 percent but the data suggests the vast majority of trips this summer will be domestic.
Whether it’s sailing around Norway’s fjords or taking a family-friendly cruise in Italy, Europe cruising is returning with ample options for those who craving a turn at sea.