www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday October 21, 2006 - 27 SMALLER SHIPS OFFER INTIMATE EXPERIENCES Golden Anchor Award recipient CONVENTION WINNER: Peter Thomson, Vice President and COO of Cruise Holidays (left) presented Lola Vassiliadis (right), of Cruise Holidays of Oakville, the 2006 Golden Anchor award at Cruise Holidays' recent annual convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The recipient of the Golden Anchor exemplifies the store most engaged in programs, meetings and conventions, and use of tools and technology provided to stores by Cruise Holidays headquarters. The Vassiliadis' were honoured as co-winners along with Cruise Holidays, of Woodinville, Washington. Cruise Holidays of Oakville, located at 221 Lakeshore Road E., opened its doors in 1997. Bucking the trend in an era of mega cruise ships, guests sailing with Regent Seven Seas find its small to-mid-sized ship experience a best-kept secret: offering more personalized service, greater overall space per passenger, and customized experiences. Beginning in 2007, the value of the ships' nimble size will be even more pronounced with several new and exotic ports of call and the expansion of The Regent Travel ConciergeSM, featuring one-on-one concierge services and tools e for guests to customize their travel programs. An added bonus of smaller ships is faster embarkation and disembarkation, as well as visits to less touristed ports of call. Among Regent Seven Seas' 300 ports of call worldwide, many are inaccessible to larger ships, from Gustavia (St. Barts) in the Caribbean to Monte Carlo, Portofino, and Kotor (Montenegro) in Europe to the Society Islands in French Polynesia and Sitka in Alaska. In fact, Regent Seven Seas was the recipient of the 2005 Cruise Critic "Cruise Innovation Award" as "the luxury line with the most innovative, path-finding itineraries." In keeping with this trailblazing status, in 2007 its four luxury vessels will also feature more than 20 new ports of call and three "Grand Voyages." The 700-guest all-balcony suite Seven Seas Voyager will feature: a 111-night World r Cruise Regent's most extensive ever, while the 700-guest all-balcony suite Seven Seas Mariner will sail a four-segment, 59-night roundtrip "Circle South America" voyage reaching 31 ports in 16 countries; and an eight-segment, 107-night "Grand Asia Pacific" journey. Also new for 2007, the 490-guest all-suite (90% with private balconies) Seven Seas Navigator will be deployed r exclusively in the Mediterranean from April through early November. Collectively, the Mariner, Voyager and Navigator will make maiden calls on four continents in 2007. 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