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Charlie has moved on: Today’s chocolate factories are making some of the world’s strangest chocolates.

Carnival Cruise Line's biggest spenders depart from the Port of Baltimore, the state's top ports official is saying.

A troupe of blue-faced performers is taking its quirky act to a different Las Vegas Strip casino in the fall of 2012.

Royal Caribbean and Azamara Club Cruises are the latest cruise lines to modify their itineraries after nearly two weeks of violent protests and riots aimed at the Egyptian government.

A second person has died after arriving on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that docked at the island resort of Cozumel, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.

The Corallium Spa at the Lopesan Costa Meloneras resort on the Canary Islands has created a "womb room" designed to "re-create the journey of life starting with where it all began."

After decades of false starts, shifting owners, dashed hopes and a nomadic existence, it appears the SS United States' distress call is finally being answered.

Embraer started deliveries of its latest executive jet, the Legacy 650, last November, when the first of the fleet joined a charter operation in the United Kingdom. The large-category jet offers the same roomy three-zone cabin as the older 600 model, but new Rolls-Royce engines and enhanced aerodynamics boost fuel ...

The Polar Star cruise ship ran aground Monday en route from Antarctica to Argentina. None of the passengers onboard were injured.

1950 Allard J2When British racer and automaker Sydney Allard put a big American V-8 into a lithe English roadster and created the Allard J2, he could not have imagined he was setting the stage for a succession of similarly hybrid sports cars that have included the Shelby AC Cobra, the ...

Jean Dunand’s latest GMT tourbillon chronograph, the expansive $460,000 Jean Dunand Palace (www.jeandunand.com), is a mechanical tour de force with a design that abounds with references to Paris during the industrial age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The case design, for example, evokes the footing of the ...

Those who might be inclined to regard this month’s selection of his and her gifts for Valentine’s Day (see "Love Matches," page 88) as yet another example of our society’s coarse commercialization would do well to remember that the romantic sentiments we idealize on this particular holiday have long been ...

Cruise lines and tour operators continued to tweak itineraries Sunday as the unrest in Egypt escalated, leaving travelers on edge during what is the peak season for Nile River cruises.

Rogue waves, mechanical problems, bad weather. Not every cruise is perfect. And when things go wrong, passengers are sometimes surprised that they are no more likely to get a refund than if they went to the beach for a week and it rained every day.

Holland America and Princess Cruises have now both canceled calls to Mazatlán, following the lead of Disney Cruise Line, which pulled the port from Disney Wonder's seven-night Mexican Riviera sailings indefinitely,