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Wishbook Vacations has been nominated for the Best Travel Agent or Agency in the Best of Penticton 2024 awards. Thank you for honouring me with this recognition. I love that I have the opportunity to offer each of my clients an amazing one-on-one personalized travel planning experience. I continually invest in my professional development so […]

In a short 4-month period I had the opportunity to go on three Celebrity Cruises! Lucky me! It afforded me an amazing opportunity to see what sailing on a Celebrity Cruise is all about. So, yes or no to sailing with Celebrity Cruises? Well, it depends! Of course, finding the right cruise and the right

Flowing with Milk and Honey In April and May of 2023, I was privileged to escort a group of 31 pilgrims, including my husband Vince, to the Holy Land. When we arrived, 9 others joined our group from destinations in the USA. I had chosen Collette Vacations as my supplier, in part because of the

As we are now learning to live with Covid, and the world has reopened to travel, it was time to get out there and explore this beautiful world after a two-year hiatus. Not to mention, I had an expiring cruise credit that needed attention. What better place to start than Greece! You may already know

I’m going to start by sharing with you a little bit about the island of Samos. Just off the coast of Turkey, this large island is located in the eastern Aegean Sea, separated from Turkey by just one and half kilometers. This beautiful island has a varied landscape, covered in vineyards, orange trees and olive

In September 2022, my travel Wishbook opened once again after a COVID hiatus with my long-awaited cruise visiting several Greek islands, and, oh, how marvelous and breathtakingly beautiful it was! Certainly, well worth the wait!! Since we had a significant cruise credit from our cancelled French Polynesia cruise, we decided to spoil ourselves and upgrade

I originally had three full days to explore Paris, however, my original return date was cancelled, taking away one of those precious days, leaving me the option to come home a day earlier or stay 2 days more. We opted to come home a day early which still permitted me time explore Paris a little

Just when you think you have it all figured out, changes happen. That seems to be the way both domestic and international travel is playing out right now. It most certainly seems like a jigsaw puzzle that has to be put back together again and it can be very frustrating and intimidating! There’s much more

Was it really that bad? It’s amazing to look back on this COVID journey and see just how the world can revolve on a dime in a very short period of time. Let’s start by looking into the past. January 25, 2020, the first official case of COVID-19 was reported in Canada, not too long