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How to Vacation with New York Times Reporters
Have you ever wanted to take a vacation with a New York Times reporter? Now you can.
By Paul Brady
Have you ever wanted to take a vacation with a New York Times reporter? Now you can, with an expanded Times Journeys program that will offer 21 different luxury, active, and in-depth tours around the world, accompanied by destination and subject-matter experts as well as reporters and editors from the paper of record. Among the destinations for the trips are China, France, India, Israel, Kenya, New Zealand, Peru, and Tanzania.
The program is an expanded version of the specially arranged cruise trips that the Times began offering in 2012. Recent editions included a sail around Patagonia on a Holland America ship (with columnist Roger Cohen and writer Martha Rose Shulman) and a Caribbean cruise on the Queen Mary 2 (with reporter Diana B. Henriques, columnist Floyd Norris, critic Anthony Tommasini). While the Times hasn't yet announced which reporters will join the expanded roster of new trips—"We're still in the process of confirming who will be available for each date," a spokesman says—there are plenty of other experts already scheduled to join the departures, ranging from military historians and former diplomats to safari guides and opera aficionados. (The Times lists all the experts on its Journeys microsite.)
While booked through the Times, the tours are then operated by Abercrombie & Kent, Academic Travel Abroad, and Mountain Travel Sobek, three highly regarded operators. Prices start at $4,095 per person, double occupancy for a six-night tour of Gettysburg and its environs and go up to $16,995 per person, double occupancy for a 13-night safari through Kenya and Tanzania.
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