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  • Cruise Deal Main Feature

    Free round-trip airfare and luxury hotels when you book a ISLANDS Melanesian Discovery Cruise with Orion Expedition Cruises departing March 1st.

  • Print Guides Main Feature

    Throughout 2010, every issue of ISLANDS magazine includes our editors' picks of day-by-day itineraries to the featured island destinations.

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    In our relaunch of islands.com, we're presenting the island wallpapers bigger, bolder and better. Find your favorite and download for free.

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    Check out the beautiful videos and photo galleries in ISLANDS’ special enhanced digital guide to romantic vacations.

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News & Features

Travel Specials

Editors' Blogs

  • February 5th, 2010

    For years, ISLANDS has highlighted great island beaches around the world. This year we want to focus on the best summer beaches -- those stunningly beautiful places that have the perfect weather come June. They also should have just the right balance between a lively, authentic local scene that blossoms in the summer season and the feeling that you can still have part of the beach all to yourself. We're researching these places right now for the "Best Summer Beaches" list that will appear in the June issue of ISLANDS magazine. But we want to know what you think. Make your pick on the quick survey below. And I'll randomly pick one person to send an amazing ISLANDS beach poster as a token of thanks.

    Tags: beach best

  • February 2nd, 2010

    Save $7,000 on this "Trip of a Lifetime" cruise -- the ISLANDS Magazine Melanesian Discovery with Orion Expedition Cruises. This special deal was just announced for free round-trip airfare and luxury hotels as part of this 18-night exclusive cruise from Auckland to Rabaul, March 1-17. Find out more about the deal and take advantage of it by clicking here.

  • January 31st, 2010

    Just added a Twitter widget to the ISLANDS blogs that tracks live Caribbean deals. Hope it helps you with your trip planning. If you like it, we'll sprinkle more of these live feeds into our destination pages and other content.

    Tags: Deals

  • January 28th, 2010

    Travel writer Amanda Jones recently traveled to the Maldives by way of Dubai for a feature in the "Find Bliss" issue of ISLANDS magazine. This is her dispatch on an amazing hotel she stayed at during her travels.

    I’d always had a knee-jerk negative reaction to the concept of Dubai. All that shiny new stuff in a desert seemed incongruous, antithetical and maybe even gauche. I’d even remained unconvinced when my friend Jan Morris, the iconic British travel writer, had said, with uncharacteristic enthusiasm, that Dubai put all other cities to shame. And then I went and was unabashedly won over. It’s like heyday Las Vegas meets Versailles. Or maybe more like Las Vegas crossed with a hot Geneva. It’s a bubble world where everything is clean, cutting edge, lit up and functioning. Everyone is polite. There is no poverty. Nothing is even slightly shabby.

    And set on a man-made island in the Arabian Gulf is the Burj Al Arab, stated to be the world’s most opulent (and expensive) hotel.

    Built to mimic a billowing sail, the Burj is worth saving all your pennies and staying there, or alternatively, go just to have dinner there. The lobby has soaring ceilings, a shooting, laser-lit fountain, mosaic floors, and glass and metal everywhere. The suites come with a butler, push-button curtains, TV’s that rise out of tables, stocked bars, full size Hermes bathroom condiments (they even give you a chic tote so you can haul them off with you), and décor that you’ve previously only seen in James Bond movies. The hotel has four gourmet restaurants, one of which, Al Muntaha, is cantilevered from the top of the sail with a dizzying view. Another has an aquarium in the walls, through which you descend in a glass elevator to reach the restaurant. In the past decade, Dubai has quietly established itself as a convenient, sleek, seamless hub for global travel. Despite their economic crisis, you can get almost everywhere in the world from there.

    If, like me, you’re sick of flying through Europe’s crowded, smoky, expensive cities, give Dubai a shot.

    See Amanda's day-by-day itinerary to plan your trip. And see her full article in the ISLANDS archive on Scribd.

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