MS Diana Cruise on the Gota Canal By Peter Knego It was a perfect June day in Stockholm’s Old Town (or Gamla Stan) with brilliant sunshine punctuated by just a few wisps of clouds as my partner Mike and I rolled our luggage from the classic hotel ship Malardrottningen...
Star Clipper Cruise Review By Peter Knego. Cannes! The glamorous hub of filmdom’s glitterati was our starting point for a seven night voyage to Portofino, Corsica and more of the French Riviera aboard Star Clipper’s 170-guest, 2,298-gross ton Star Clipper. Quite...
Viking's New Longships Debut By Peter Knego Aaaah! Two nights in Paris for a Viking Cruises christening event was the icing on a multi-tiered gateau that finally thawed after a two year, COVID-generated freeze. I arrived at the Pont de Grenelle on March 15, a gray...
Lindblad Galapagos Expedition Cruising, Part 2 By Peter Knego Updated September 2025 The second day’s 6:30 wake up call would set the pace for the rest of the week. After breakfast with some of the best huevos rancheros I’ve ever tasted and fresh cappuccinos from a...
Lindblad Galapagos Expedition Cruise, Part 1 By Peter Knego One place that has always intrigued but somehow eluded me, at least until this past September, is the Galapagos. Before then, I knew little about the archipelago, other than it is home to numerous unique...
Atlas Ocean Voyages' World Navigator Part 3 By Peter Knego Following the captain’s sobering announcement about one guest on board testing positive for COVID, there was of course, a lot of guessing among fellow World Navigator passengers about what would happen next....
Atlas Ocean Voyages Beautiful World Navigator By Peter Knego What a joy it was to be heading back to Greece, one of my favorite places on the planet, to join Atlas Ocean Voyages beautiful World Navigator on her maiden cruise to Alexandria via several of Greece’s most...
Atlas Ocean Voyages’ World Navigator By Peter Knego A maiden voyage is a milestone event that many crossers and cruisers yearn to be a part of. However, as most know, the cachet of being a “maiden voyager” comes with caveats, especially when the ship is the first for...
Sea Cloud Videos by Peter Knego QuirkyCruise contributor Peter Knego has produced a pair of wonderful Sea Cloud videos that illustrate Sea Cloud's rich history. The first video provides a top-to-bottom tour of all passenger deck areas, public spaces and cabin...
Adventures with Aranui Cruises By Peter Knego. Updated September 2025, with the news that a new vessel, the 198-passenger Aranaoa, will launch in 2027; read more details in this SeaTrade Cruise News article. Fortunately, this was not my first visit to Tahiti, so the...
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Wilderness Legacy Cruise Ship Review By Peter Knego (Photo Above: The handsome Wilderness Legacy, shown at anchor near Le Conte Glacier, was built in 1984 as a replica Chesapeake Bay coastal steamer. * Credit: Peter Knego) After no less than a dozen Alaska cruises on...
C’est La Vie Barge Cruise Review By Molly Hottinger, with images and videos by Len Kaufman From the moment I stepped aboard the C’est La Vie for a 6-night journey on the tranquil banks of the Marne River and the Canal Latéral à la Marne, I knew the Champagne region...
Tauck Rhine River Cruise Review — Beyond the Ordinary By John and Sandra Nowlan (Photo above: John & Sandra at the top of Heidelberg Castle.) Our late fall river cruise with Tauck was called Rhine Enchantment, but the enchantment extended well beyond the seven...
Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise By Aimée Laberge Natashquan, Harrington Harbour, Tête-à-la-Baleine, La Tabatière, Saint-Augustin, Blanc-Sablon… Why on earth would you head out on a supply ship to isolated villages on the Gulf of St. Lawrence’s northernmost...
The Traveling Professor By Heidi Sarna I recently had a chat with Steve Solosky of The Traveling Professor. We found each other online a few years back and bonded over our shared passion for small-scale travel and quirky cruises. If you’re not familiar with The...
Sukapha Brahmaputra River Cruise Review By Anita Nirody When I, along with my husband and a few friends, boarded the Sukapha in late November, we did not know quite what to expect. Some of us have done small boat cruises in other parts of the world (including Egypt,...
Marne Canal Barge Cruise Review By Kathryn Harrison Sunday – Arrival in the Rain The rain began somewhere past Paris and kept us company all the way east. In the back of a comfortable van, we made gentle small talk with our future shipmates — two friends from...
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 Updated April 2026 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...
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...
