Travel Pamphlets Reviewed
[Owing to pressure on our space, our usual travel article has had to be held over for one week. We propose, from time to time, to notice publications sent to us by travel agencies and shipping companies, which we think may be of interest to readers.—ED. Spectator-] THE Orient Line, 5 Fenchurch Avenue, London, E.C. 3, whose fine fleet includes the 20,000-ton steamers Orama," Oronsay,' 'Otranto,' Orford ' and ' Orontes,' send a collection of booklets. They maintain a mail service between London (Tilbury) and Aus- tralia, calling at Mediterranean Ports, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, with through connexions to Tasmania and New Zealand. Through tickets are issued for tours round the world out by Orient Lino returning vid Singapore, China, Japan, Canada, America, or Panama, or rid the Cape. Holidays abroad are certainly made easy by the Orient Lino. Tours are arranged in Italy, Sicily, and Morocco, with reduced fares in summer for Mediterranean ports, and in winter to and from Ceylon. On one " Orient Line" trip passengers may take a thirteen days' sea voyage to Toulon and back from London (Tilbury). The liner leaves Tilbury °Very Saturday, and is due at Toulon on the following Friday—when passengers transfer direct to the homeward-bound steanier. There is also a twenty-seven days' Orient Line tour to Italy and the Riviera, for which passengers may leave London (Tilbury) on Saturday, and, after visiting Gibral- tar, Toulon, or Marseilles, Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, Genoa, and either Menton°, Monte Carlo, or Nice, be back in London on the twenty-seventh day. The minimum cost of this journey is £56 12s. 6d. The Orient Christmas Holiday return tickets to Ceylon cost £105 from London, or £100 from Toulon or Naples. The Orient Company began their pleasure cruises as early as 1887, and each year some of their beat steamers are engaged in cruises to the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Norway and the northern capitals.
CUNARD LINE PLANS.
During the coming season a wide choice of cruises and tours is offered by the Cunard Steam Ship Co. Ltd., Cunard Building, Liverpool, whose illustrated " folders " are well worth perusal, On each Wednesday and Saturday, from December, 1929, to March, 1930, a special Cunard service will be conducted from New York to Havana by the 20,000-ton ships Caronia ' and Carmania.' On this Cuban service only first-class passengers are taken. The minimum rate from New York to Havana—one way—is £19 10s., and the "round " cruise costs £36. Arrangements may also be made for inclusive thirteen day tours, covering 'steamship fare, hotel accommodation in Havana, full board and excursions, for £43 upwards. "Triangular" tours may now be undertaken between the United Kingdom, New York, Jamaica and other ports in the West Indies and back to the United Kingdom, or vice versa, by the Cunard Line, Messrs. Elders and Fyffes, and the United Fruit Company's steamers. The minimum cost (which includes cabin accommodation on the North Atlantic and minimum first-class on Messrs. Elders and Fyffes' and United Fruit Company's steamers) is £85. There are winter cruises by the Cunard liner Laconia ' (20,000 tons) to the West Indies, leaving Southampton January 16th (or from Liverpool, January 14th)—lasting forty-two days—and costing from 100 guineas ; to the Mediterranean, from Southampton. on March lst—twenty-five days—from fifty guineas; and to the Atlantic Isles and North Africa—from Southampton, March 29th —sixteen days—from thirty guineas. By the through Cunard bookings to the East in connexion with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Line, passengers travel to Japan, China, and the Philippines (yid United States and Canada) using the combined services of the Cunard Line and tho N.Y.K. Line. First-class rail transportation across the United States or Canada is provided.
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