Windstar Cruises. This classy fleet of six combines Windstar Cruises’ three original sailing yachts, Wind Star, Wind Spirit and Wind Surf, groundbreaking at the time for their large size and computer-controlled sails, with Seabourn’s former trio of small cruise ships,...
Le Boat LeBoat offers self-drive boats along the Rideau Canal in Ontario (Canada) as well as in many parts of Europe. European waterway cruises have developed a huge following in the last decade, and what most likely springs to mind are the long, narrow, low-slung...
UnCruise Adventures Seattle-based UnCruise Adventures operates a fleet of nine expedition vessels accommodating from between 22 to 86 passengers, mainly those seeking adventure cruises in North America’s coastal, island and inland waters from Alaska south to Mexico’s...
Marine Link Tours Marine Link Tours - Check the website calendar and be sure to check the line’s detailed Sailing Protocol. It is worth reading even if you are not planning to sail! Capacity is 12 in outside double cabins, five with two single beds and one with an...
Adventure Canada Founded in 1987 and based near Toronto, Adventure Canada’s family line of ownership continues with the second generation expanding the firm’s reaches in Arctic Canada, its more temperate regions and eastward to Greenland, Iceland, Ireland and...
Hebrides Cruises Hebrides Cruises is a small family-operated line that currently operates two vessels taking just 8 to 10 passengers on cruises to Scotland’s Western Isles, lochs and the Caledonian Canal that stretches 60 miles across Scotland to Inverness. The...
Running on Waves One of the world’s largest sailing yachts, the 42-passenger Running on Waves is a tall ship built with classic proportions and modern technology. It was built by the Polish superyacht yard Segel Masten Yachten and launched in 2011. This luxury...
Tradewind Voyages 2023 UPDATE: This company is currently not operating the Golden Horizon, as the ship is laid up once again due to various disputes. Golden Horizon as completed is a near replica of 1913’s France II, the world’s largest square-rigged vessel....
Skarv Lines Skarv Lines is an owner-operated, single vessel, small cruise ship company that offers rugged adventures around Scotland’s incomparable Hebrides. More unusually they also venture to the country’s Orkney archipelago and Scotland’s East Coast. While there is...
Atlas Ocean Tours Atlas Ocean Tours has a mighty powerful name for a company that is the smallest QuirkyCruise ship operator we have covered thus far. One-week trips explore the southern part of Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) in a patch of Canadian...
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Best Luggage For Cruises By Heidi Sarna & the QC Team Readers often ask us about luggage recommendations; the latest query came from a woman booked on an upcoming small-ship Alaska cruise. It’s a great question, luggage is important. Small-ship cruises are...
Lord of the Highlands Cruise By Pat Dacey. As fans and frequent guests onboard Hebridean Island Cruises’ 50-passenger Hebridean Princess, my wife Denise and I were excited in 2022 to experience the new addition to their fleet, the Lord of the Highlands. For over 30...
By Elysa Leonard We’ve got big news from one of our favorite small-ship cruise lines, Island Windjammers (IWJ). Known by many as “the island girls,” IWJ's 26-pax classic clipper ship Vela and the 10-passenger Diamant schooner have been delighting passengers for years...
Assam Bengal Navigation Cruise Review. Reviewer David Falconer from Australia. Cruise Line Assam Bengal Navigation. Boat Charaidew II. Destination Brahmaputra River, India. # of Nights 10. Departure Port Neamati Ghat, India. Date of Cruise April, 2023. Subscribe to...
Adventure Canada Cruise Review. Reviewer David from Canada. Cruise Line Adventure Canada. Boat Panorama. Destination Costa Rica/Panama. # of Nights 10. Departure Port Panama City, Panama. Date of Cruise March, 2023. Subscribe to our monthly small ship cruise email...
Four New Small Ships By Anne Kalosh There are more choices for quirky-cruise fans with four new small ships delivered during April alone. Each carries fewer than 200 passengers. They are: Ocean Albatros for Albatros Expeditions SH Diana for Swan Hellenic Scenic...
Best Arctic Cruises to See Polar Bears By Heidi Sarna The Arctic season is just starting so we thought we’d go to straight to the source for some details on spotting polar bears. Seeing a great big polar bear in the wild is a dream for many adventurous travelers....
sponsored Arctic Secret Atlas Cruises By Heidi Sarna QuirkyCruise covers small-ship cruising on vessels under 300 passengers, but we especially like the super small “micro cruise ships” carrying just a fraction of that. One of those micro expedition cruise lines we...
Belgium & Netherlands River Cruise By Heidi Sarna Pedaling to the magnificent Castle de Haar along a sun-dappled bike path through leafy suburban neighborhoods and past wheat fields and grazing cattle, I knew this week was going to suit me just fine. This was the...
New American Eagle Doing Coastal Maine Cruises By Ted Scull Updated February 2025; the Eagle has launched. Here's Heidi's review of her week aboard American Eagle along the Maine coast. The State of Maine will be the recipient of the first of a dozen catamarans when...
How UnCruise Adventures Survived By Anne Kalosh The privately held, small-ship UnCruise Adventures said it quickly returned to profitability after the pandemic shutdown while many lines are still dealing with massive losses and crushing debt. This should give UnCruise...
