Jay Lloyd's Getaway: Recalling The Golden Age of Travel to Bermuda
By Jay Lloyd
HAMILTON, BERMUDA (CBS) -- With the spring cruise season on the horizon, we recall an age gone by, of elegant travel and legendary ocean liners.
If you lived before the jet age, you may remember booking passage on an ocean liner and then just roaming across Europe or parking on an island until you were good and ready to leave.
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Accommodations at your ports of call may have been hotels, inns, or, for the less affluent, hostels. In one case I took advantage of a friend's storeroom.
The degree of luxury during your stopovers depended on your means. But the passage was always grand!
Today, we cruise: sail from port to port, rarely spending a night ashore. The ship serves as hotel, dining room, and entertainment hub.
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But there is still one destination where passengers can spend three nights and casually explore: Bermuda.
Ships -- sailing from New York, Baltimore, or Boston -- actually spend three nights there. It's even possible to relive earlier times by taking the cruise, then booking a beach resort for one or more nights.
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Skip shipboard meals, and enjoy fine dining at classic Bermuda restaurants until it's time to sail home.
Expensive, but also elegant.
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