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When your work revolves around travel, you establish some personal preferences, on-the-road routines, and strong opinions. In our Travel Showdown series, travel advisors, industry leaders, and Virtuoso staff face off over some of travel’s most divisive topics – from packing methods to room service. This month, two Virtuoso Life  editors debate the pros and cons of a classic luxury hotel amenity – in-room dining. Do you love hotel room service? Hold Me Close Now, Tiny Ketchup Some say room service has a time and a place. Yes. It is any time, in any place. Is there anything more unabashedly “I’m on vacation, ya’ll!” than eating breakfast in bed while wearing a fluffy robe? I’ll never forget the miso soup and rice my friend and I dug into at the Mandarin Oriental, Paris after a late night (er, early morning) in the Latin Quarter. (Sometimes you need your own pot of French press coffee before facing the day, alright?) There’s the convenience factor too: Not much beats a hearty, in-room...

On a wish list of amenities aboard a ship dedicated to traveling through France’s most esteemed wine region, what would you want? Top-quality food to go with that wine, of course. And a variety of choices too, to pair with the broad scope of those varietals. Perhaps expanded fitness facilities to help keep life in balance. And plenty of deck-top space from which to sip a cabernet in view of vineyards. The new S.S.  Bon Voyage from Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection aims to tick all of those boxes, and a few more. The 124-passenger ship, set to debut on April 14, will be the sixth in the line’s class of Super Ships, the largest vessels permitted on European rivers – in this case, the scenic Bordeaux-threading Dordogne and Garonne rivers. Over the last five years the company has aggressively moved on its plan to transform the fleet, beginning with the successful launch of the  S.S. Joie de Vivre  in 2017 and the debut of the fully renovated  S.S. Beatrice  in 2018. The plan cont...