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Hyperlocal ingredients, a blend of technology and tradition, and treatments focusing not just on beauty but also on remedying stress and pain are some of the trends turning up at spas.

Sure, there's  Mickey Mouse's touch onboard. But the best attributes of the new Disney Dream cruise ship aren't quite so over-the-top.

Norway's Hurtigruten line, which plies Norway's magnificently craggy western coast, specializes in rocks, fish and sea and prides itself as "the anti-cruise ship" line.

Couples who spend their wedding night at the tiny Eh'haeusl in Amberg will live happily ever after and never get divorced — at least according to an old legend told by the locals of this medieval town in Bavaria.