UnCruise Adventures Alaska Review By Heidi Sarna Updated January 2026 After a short skiff ride to the mudflats at the terminus of Lamplugh Glacier, a massive eight-mile-long tongue of tidewater ice located in Glacier Bay National Park at the entrance to John Hopkins...
sponsored Packing Tips For Alaska Cruising With Uncruise Adventures By Heidi Sarna No one does small-ship cruising better than UnCruise Adventures. The leader in small-scale Alaska cruises, the Uncruise fleet carries from 22 to 86 passengers on wide-ranging...
sponsored Overnight River Boat Cruising In Canada This year, St. Lawrence Cruise Lines’ (SLCL) one-of-a-kind small passenger ship, the 64-passenger Canadian Empress, will sail the scenic waters of eastern Canada’s 1000 Islands and the St. Lawrence River for its 44th...
This article may contain referral links. Alaska Cruise Packing Tips By Heidi Sarna Updated May 2025 I’ve been to Alaska many times over the years, having done nearly a dozen cruises there, on big and small ships, but mostly on the small ones, my favorites. And I've...
Best French Barge Cruises By Heidi Sarna Updated January 2026 I've enjoyed small-ship cruises of all kinds all over the world, but I'm particularly partial to barge cruises along the canals of France, and a few other canal systems in England and Sweden. Everything I...
7 Reasons To UnCruise in Alaska By Heidi Sarna Updated November 2025 I recently came back from a week in Alaska with UnCruise and it was an invigorating and memorable experience that I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys exploring the great outdoors in remote...
Upper Mekong River Cruise By Heidi Sarna Whenever my husband and I listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s beautifully melancholic song “Have You Ever Seen The Rain,” we’re transported back to that magical evening on the sandy banks of the Upper Mekong River in Laos,...
Private Croatia Yacht Charters from Goolets By Heidi Sarna A private yacht charter in Croatia is a great way to travel, at your own pace and with your own peeps. They’re a great alternative to cruising on the big cruise ships with thousands of others or with dozens of...
sponsored Baja California Cruises By Heidi Sarna Updated November 2025 UnCruise is active, experiential travel at its finest; inviting you to get your feet wet (and muddy)! From the wilds of Alaska to the spectacular natural bounty of Mexico's Sea of Cortes, on their...
Sailo Yacht Charters By Heidi Sarna I had an e-chat with Sailo.com Founder & CEO Magda Marcu and her team and they shared some details about the boat and yacht charter platform that's been called by Conde Nast Traveler the "Airbnb of boats and yachts."...
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Island Windjammers Lyra Review Reviewer Toni Coleman from the US. Cruise Line Island Windjammers. Ship The 8-passenger Lyra. Destination Greek Isles. # of Nights 10. Departure Port Piraeus, Greece. Date of Cruise September, 2025. Ratings (5=excellent, 4=very good,...
Maple Leaf Adventures British Columbia Cruise Review By Robin McKelvie As the tender boat (a RIB, or rigid inflatable boat) edges deeper into First Nations territory — and further and further from the stresses and strains of the modern world — we enter a space where...
Mississippi River Music Cities Cruise Review By Jackie Sheckler Finch From the birthplace of the blues and rock ‘n’ roll in Memphis to the home of country music in Nashville, my 7-night cruise aboard the 180-passenger American Splendor was a musical delight. And it...
Canal du Midi Barge Cruise Review By Donna Heiderstadt The first time my friend Suzanne and I found ourselves about to board a seriously small boat for a week-long cruise with a handful of total strangers was in September 1997 in Turkey. As we thought back to that...
American Cruise Lines 2026 Great Lakes Cruises & More By Anne Kalosh With its fast-growing fleet of small U.S.-flag ships, American Cruise Lines is breaking out new Great Lakes and Mississippi River river routes. In 2026, the company will feature three...
Hooghly River Cruise Review By Heidi Sarna I recently spent a fascinating week on a Hooghly River cruise aboard Raj Mahal, a 40-passenger riverboat from Assam Bengal Navigation (ABN). Our journey covered about 250 miles of this twisting distributary of the Ganges,...
Magna Carta Barge Review Reviewer Deb Driscoll from the US. Cruise Line Magna Carta. (Sold through European Waterways and Barge Lady Cruises) Ship The 8-passenger Magna Carta. Destination Thames River, England. # of Nights 6. Departure Port London, England. Date of...
sponsored CroisiEurope Christmas Markets Cruises Christmas cruise itineraries are filled with the sights, sounds and tastes of the holidays. Europe’s centuries-old cities and towns are adorned with twinkling lights and classic decorations. Fragrant evergreens and the...
Magna Carta Thames River Cruise Review By Heidi Sarna Walking off the 8-passenger hotel barge Magna Carta, from its Thames River mooring at the edge of lush woodlands that envelop the Cliveden House estate in the Berkshire hills, we set off on a short uphill trek...
Victory Great Lakes Cruise By Stephanie Sack It was during a lecture about shipwrecks in Victory I's lovely Compass Lounge when I realized that a vacation on this ship was much more than a 10-day Great Lakes cruise. After years spent guiding travelers through...
AmaMagna Danube River Cruise Review By Jane Iyer What could be more pleasurable than spending a glorious evening gazing out at Budapest’s stately buildings lining the banks of the Danube — with a glass of wine in hand? This was indeed the perfect start to our seven...
