News & Cruise Reviews
Here we share the latest small-ship cruise news and first-person cruise reviews and round-ups from our team of globetrotting writers. If you've got a penchant for small-scale travel aboard boats, yachts, tall ships and mini cruisers, then enjoy the ride through our sea of stories about small-ship cruising.
Mississippi River Cruise: Expert Review of the American Melody on a Lower Mississippi River Cruise between Memphis and New Orleans
Mississippi River Cruise By John and Sandra Nowlan Our first glance of our Mississippi riverboat...
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Eastern Europe Viking Cruise Review — Rediscovering My Mother’s Hungarian Roots on a Journey of Tastes and Heritage
Eastern Europe Viking Cruise By Judi Cohen The moment our Viking longship, Viking Ullur, arrived...
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American Cruise Lines New England Cruise — Island Hopping Aboard the American Liberty, A Great Way to Travel
American Cruise Lines New England By Cele and Lynn Seldon As we’ve mentioned before in some of our...
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Viking Eastern Seaboard Explorer Cruise, Including the St. Lawrence Seaway — Peter Knego Reviews the Viking Polaris
Viking Eastern Seaboard Explorer Cruise By Peter Knego It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of...
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More Murray River Cruise Options as Australia’s Murray River Adds a New Sidewheeler to its Fleet
Murray River Cruise By Ted Scull For Australia, the mention of river cruises would probably result...
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Variety Cruises Galileo Review by QuirkyCruise Reader Jay Katz
Variety Cruises Galileo Reviewer Jay Katz from USA. Cruise Line Variety Cruises. Ship The...
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Celebrating Victory Cruise Lines Return to the Great Lakes
Victory Cruise Lines Return By Peter Barnes As an occasional Quirky Cruise contributor, I was...
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Majestic’s Glen Etive — Scotsman Robin McKelvie Reviews the 12-Pax Glen Etive, 8 Years After He Sailed on the Inaugural Voyage
Majestic’s Glen Etive By Robin McKelvie When The Majestic Line launched their first...
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New Owners for The Majestic Line — Scotsman Robin McKelvie Takes a Look at the Direction of Scotland’s Largest Small-Ship Cruise Operator
New Owners for The Majestic Line By Robin McKelvie It’s hard to overemphasize the role that The...
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Inside Windstar Cruises’ New Star Seeker — Anne Kalosh Shares Some Details of Windstar’s Upcoming New Ship
Inside Windstar Cruises’ New Star Seeker By Anne Kalosh Bookings are open for Windstar...
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14 Europe River Cruise Packing Tips — Heidi Shares Her Expert Advice Based on More Than 125 Cruises
Europe River Cruise Packing Tips By Heidi Sarna I’ve taken more than 125 cruises all over...
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4 Small Sailing Ship Cruises in the Caribbean to Consider — Our Experts Weigh in on Sea Cloud, Star Clippers, Windstar & Island Windjammers
Small Sailing Ship Cruises in the Caribbean By Judi Cuervo & Heidi Sarna It was probably about...
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Sea Cloud Cruise: Expert Review (2024) — Writer Peter Knego Reunites With A Floating Legend
Sea Cloud Cruise Review By Peter Knego Every now and then, a dream comes true twice. For me, that...
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Colombia’s Magdalena River — AMA Waterways Newest River Cruise Region … Inaugural Delayed Until March 15, 2025
Colombia’s Magdalena River By Ted Scull Updated Sept 2024 — The inaugural sailing of AmaWaterways’...
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AmaWaterways Soulful Experience Cruise on France’s Rhône River — Paul C. Thornton Reviews a 10-Night Cruise & Paris Combo
AmaWaterways Soulful Experience Cruise By Paul C. Thornton I recently checked a river cruise off...
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East Greenland Ocean Albatros Cruises — Anne Kalosh Reviews a Glorious Adventure in an Immense, Wildly Beautiful Place Like No Other
Ocean Albatros Cruises to East Greenland By Anne Kalosh Now is the time of year when a handful of...
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Quasar Evolution Galapagos Cruise Adventure READER REVIEW by Holly Quinn
Quasar Evolution Galapagos Cruise Reviewer Holly Quinn from USA. Cruise Line Quasar. Ship...
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Aqua Expeditions Amazon READER REVIEW by Holly Quinn
Aqua Expeditions Amazon Reviewer Holly Quinn from USA. Cruise Line Aqua Expeditions. Ship...
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Croatia Yacht Cruise with the Small Cruise Ship Collection — An Expert Review of a Cruise in the Adriatic Between Split and Dubrovnik
Croatia Yacht Cruise By Alison Abbott I must be one of the few visitors to Croatia without Game of...
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3 Reasons a First Time River Cruiser Delighted in a Uniworld Douro River Cruise
Uniworld Douro River Cruise By Georgiana Verdonk-Sim When my best friend Heidi suggested a cruise...
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HEIDI SARNA
I'm up to 78 countries and 110+ cruises worldwide, and it's the small ship journeys that I love writing about most. And so QuirkyCruise.com was born, an excellent research tool for planning your own unforgettable small ship trip.
THEODORE W. SCULLI have traveled between all continents by sea and cruised along three dozen rivers. Ships and travel are in my blood, and so is writing. My journeys have translated into many books and many hundreds of articles.
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