Solo Cruising Versus Cruising as a Couple By Jackie Sheckler Finch One evening on my recent cruise aboard American Cruise Lines’ 150-passenger American Heritage, I decided at the last minute to skip the shipboard entertainment and walk ashore in Natchez one final...
Mississippi River Boat Cruises By Jackie Sheckler Finch As a long-time solo traveler, people often ask me if I get lonely or feel afraid traveling alone. Nope and nope. I do enjoy being with family and friends, but I also like alone-time to journey to fascinating...
Le Boat's New Skipper for Hire Program — What a Great Idea by Ted Scull Let’s get underway. A self-drive boat that explores the interlocking waterways of southern France is a most appealing vacation concept. The maps show a network of canals and rivers slicing...
Prince William Sound Alaska Cruises By John Roberts UnCruise Adventures long has been the clear leader in expedition cruising in Alaska, offering up-close encounters with glaciers, wildlife and remote rainforests. The small ship cruise company is leveling up the...
Hebridean Princess Turns 60 By Robin McKelvie It’s not every day you dine next to a member of the British Royal family on a small ship. Nor every day you’re aboard a vessel that once had a top-secret Royal mission and has gone on to become Scotland’s most luxurious...
Lindblad Expeditions Expands Galápagos Fleet By Anne Kalosh Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic is adding a pair of purpose-built Galápagos vessels: the 48-passenger Celebrity Xpedition and 16-passenger Celebrity Xploration. They currently operate for Celebrity...
sponsored Prince William Sound UnCruise Adventure UnCruise loves going deep into wild Alaska, taking small groups of passengers to remote places to kayak, hike and skiff around the shoreline looking for animals and soaking up the natural beauty. There's no better way...
Viking and Tauck River Cruise Comparison By Sandra & John Nowlan Both Viking and Tauck have enviable reputations for a quality and thorough river cruise experience. We’ve sailed on both lines over the past nine months. Viking is by far the bigger company with many...
Sea Cloud II Expert Review By Peter Knego To fully love and appreciate the splendid, three masted deluxe cruise bark Sea Cloud II, it helps to understand her origins. She exists because her namesake, the original Sea Cloud, became such a success as a deluxe cruise...
Viking River Cruise Land Combo in Europe By John and Sandra Nowlan It wasn't your typical river cruise, and that's why we were curious to give this Viking river cruise land combo a try. The Viking itinerary started in Paris and ended in Prague, but there was no...
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Prince William Sound Alaska Cruises By John Roberts UnCruise Adventures long has been the clear leader in expedition cruising in Alaska, offering up-close encounters with glaciers, wildlife and remote rainforests. The small ship cruise company is leveling up the...
Hebridean Princess Turns 60 By Robin McKelvie It’s not every day you dine next to a member of the British Royal family on a small ship. Nor every day you’re aboard a vessel that once had a top-secret Royal mission and has gone on to become Scotland’s most luxurious...
Lindblad Expeditions Expands Galápagos Fleet By Anne Kalosh Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic is adding a pair of purpose-built Galápagos vessels: the 48-passenger Celebrity Xpedition and 16-passenger Celebrity Xploration. They currently operate for Celebrity...
sponsored Prince William Sound UnCruise Adventure UnCruise loves going deep into wild Alaska, taking small groups of passengers to remote places to kayak, hike and skiff around the shoreline looking for animals and soaking up the natural beauty. There's no better way...
Viking and Tauck River Cruise Comparison By Sandra & John Nowlan Both Viking and Tauck have enviable reputations for a quality and thorough river cruise experience. We’ve sailed on both lines over the past nine months. Viking is by far the bigger company with many...
Sea Cloud II Expert Review By Peter Knego To fully love and appreciate the splendid, three masted deluxe cruise bark Sea Cloud II, it helps to understand her origins. She exists because her namesake, the original Sea Cloud, became such a success as a deluxe cruise...
Viking River Cruise Land Combo in Europe By John and Sandra Nowlan It wasn't your typical river cruise, and that's why we were curious to give this Viking river cruise land combo a try. The Viking itinerary started in Paris and ended in Prague, but there was no...
Roi Soleil Barge Cruise Review By Karl Zimmermann “Luxe, calme et volupté” is the refrain in a work by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire titled “L’Invitation aux Voyage.” Into English that translates as “luxury, peace and exquisite pleasure.” This...
Buying a Townhouse By Heidi Sarna If you're thinking about buying a townhouse, there are many things to consider before you bite the bullet as they say. There are all of the more obvious things to noodle on. How many bedrooms and bathrooms are there? How many floors?...
Windstar Cruises Will Return to Alaska and Japan By Anne Kalosh Windstar Cruises will send a new ship, the 224-passenger Star Seeker, to Alaska and Japan when it joins the fleet in 2026. The line last sailed in those areas in 2023 before it redeployed Star Breeze to...
sponsored St. Lawrence Cruise Lines 2025 St. Lawrence Cruise Lines (SLCL) is glad to report its 2024 season is underway (after an unfortunate delay due to the closure of the LaSalle Causeway in Kingston by the Canadian federal government due to damage to the lifting...
