European River Cruise Cycling Tips By Heidi Sarna Last fall I spent a week aboard the 156-pax AMA Stella round-trip from Amsterdam to explore the waterways of the Netherlands and Belgium. We chose this itinerary because of the many opportunities for us to sightsee by...
sponsored Cruise Director Trevor Houle Takes Us Behind the Scenes By Heidi Sarna. I had an e-chat with Trevor Houle, cruise director and purser for St. Lawrence Cruise Lines to find what it’s like to be the glue that holds a cruise together. Wearing many hats, a...
Heidi’s No Nonsense Cruise Packing Tips By Heidi Sarna Update July 2025 I travel for pleasure and I also travel for a living. As a freelance writer for many years and co-founder of QuirkyCruise.com, a review site focused on the small-ship cruising experience, I’m a...
Paul C Thornton's New Podcast Series by Heidi Sarna Paul C Thornton is a passionate man. He’s led a fascinating and full life, enough so to inspire him to write an award-winning memoir a few years back. Originally from New York and now based in Florida with his...
Grand Victoria Barge Cruise Charter By Heidi Sarna Updated April 2026 We love when travelers want to tell us all about their latest small-ship quirky cruises. Here, Ron Maxwell shares details on his recent charter of the luxury 6-pax Grand Victoria. Author and a...
The Best Small Ship Cruise Travel in 2022 By Heidi & Ted & the Gang For many, 2022 was a year of travel, for getting back out there after two years at home tethered to zoom and youtube doing the virtual travel thing. And so, our QuirkyCruise gang was...
My Luciole French Canal Barge Cruise Review I Love Luciole! By Heidi Sarna Updated January 2026 Was it the first evening I fell for her? When the charming Luciole’s beauty was captured in a moonlit reflection in the Yonne River where she was moored, just below the...
Sweden's Göta Canal By Heidi Sarna. Updated March 2025 Our family summer trip aboard the historic 46-passenger M/S Juno, one of a trio of wonderful old small cruise boats belonging to Sweden's Göta Canal Steamship Company, was one of my favorite quirky cruises to...
Pandaw River Cruises Restarting By Heidi Sarna It feels like a lifetime ago that river cruising in Southeast Asia was up and running, thanks to the COVID pandemic that put a stop to leisure travel in spring 2020. And while parts of Europe, North America and the South...
