Wine and Travel Blog

Cunard Cruise Line is celebrating its 175th year by offering free balcony upgrades, up to $300 on on-board credit per stateroom, and $175 reduced deposit per person on over 100 of its 2015 voyages. Cunard is one of my favorite cruise lines. Click here to read about my experiences on the Queen Mary 2 in Norway here.

Ferdinand Magellan is one of the most famous names in World History for a reason: he was the first to circumnavigate the globe in the 16th century, though he did not see the end of it - passing away a year before his officer Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the quest. 

Did you know that the venerable Cunard Line once started out as a mail carriage ship? The history of Cunard starts with its founding in 1840 as The Cunard Shipping Line under the name of The British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company. Samuel Cunard inaugurated the line to provide mail carriage from Britain to North America via steamships.

Have you ever wanted to go around the world by ship? Around-the-world cruising has become popular, and cruise lines are meeting demand by adding circumnavigations to their sailings. If you want to go on a world cruise, there are lots of choices for you. But how do you pick a world cruise? Here are some questions to consider as you make a decision.

When I decided to start Roux Wine Tours last year, one of my main motivating factors was to get discounts on travel. I diligently enrolled in all of my supplier training programs, one of which was the Cunard Commodore program. By enrolling in their courses and achieving Commodore status as a Cunard Certified Expert, I was rewarded with a free graduation cruise on the Queen Mary 2's Norwegian Adventure from May 26 to June 3, 2014.