Find Your Way Explore alternative travel modes to get where you want to go. BY RICHARD NEWTON Luxury at Sea: Fraser's Liberty (top), and main deck aft dining, and sundeck areas (bottom) PHOTO: © FRASER
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or a short time at the start of the pandemic, it was common for the rich and famous to declare on social media, “We’re all in the same boat.” It seemed true for a while; the global emergency grounded everyone. But it soon became apparent that, for the privileged minority, the boat was often a luxury yacht. Mass transport, which made the world accessible to everyone, proved especially vulnerable when social restrictions were enforced.
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Alternative means of travel — not necessarily exclusive, not necessarily expensive — proved more resilient and perhaps provide us with a vision for the future of travel: more diverse and more adaptable. Let’s start with those luxury yachts. Are they really beyond the means of most of us? Well, that depends. Many of the yachts chartered by Fraser, one of the world’s largest yacht rental companies, can accommodate up to a dozen overnight passengers. So a vessel that costs
