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...
Tahiti-based ARANUI 5 Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (C.T.P.M.) is a French Polynesian shipping line owned by the Wong family who have operated passenger-freighter ships in the remote South Pacific Marquesas Islands for three decades and cargo service...
St Lawrence Cruise Lines This one-ship line, started in 1981, is family-owned and based in Kingston, Ontario. In 2016 Jason Clark took over as president from his uncle, Bob Clark, who once ran it with his brother. The ship, the Canadian Empress, is a composite...
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American Queen Voyages Shut Down Operations Update Feb 24, 2024: The three riverboats of American Queen Voyages, including the American Queen, ceased operations earlier this week as will the company's pair of coastal ships. The bottom line is that the line never...
Hebrides Cruises New Yacht By Ted Scull Scotland, a huge draw for visitors from all over the world, is likely to have one of the largest fleets of yacht-sized cruise vessels of any of the world’s cruising regions. Right up there with Croatia and the Greek Isles. Put...
Pandaw Vietnam Cruise Reader Review. Reviewer William Brotby from USA. Cruise Line Pandaw. Ship Pandaw. Destination Mekong Delta. # of Nights 17. Departure Port Hanoi, Vietnam. Date of Cruise December, 2022. Ratings (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor,...
American Queen Review By Karl Zimmermann Update Feb 24, 2024: The three riverboats of American Queen Voyages, including the American Queen, ceased operations earlier this week as will the company's pair of coastal ships. The bottom line is that the line never...
Winter Cruising in Canada By Anne Kalosh Travelers on small-ship line Ponant will become the first to cruise Canada in winter when Le Commandant Charcot braves the snow and ice to offer a pioneering adventure. Icebreakers crunch open a path for cargo ships on the...
Travel Insurance Tips from Charlie and Sherrie Funk By Charlie & Sherrie Funk Sherrie Funk started the first cruise-only travel agency in Tennessee in 1988. Her husband, Charlie Funk, joined her full-time in 1993. The pair ran Just Cruisin’ Plus for 40 years. They...
Scenic Opal River Cruise By Terri Colby Cruising smoothly on a crisp but sunny Sunday morning on the Rhine River, church bells ring, birdsong blends with rippling water sounds and passengers on the Scenic Opal river boat cross the top sundeck from side to side to see...
Embattled Vantage Deluxe World Travel By Anne Kalosh UPDATE Aug 21, 2023 https://quirkycruise.com/vantage-customers/ UPDATE June 30, 2023 — Vantage Travel Files for Chapter 11 Founded in 1983, Vantage Deluxe World Travel has owned and operated a small fleet of...
SeaDream II Cruise Review. Reviewer Rudy from the US. Cruise Line Sea Dream Yacht Club. Ship Sea Dream II. Destination Transatlantic. # of Nights 16. Departure Port West Palm Beach, FLA. Date of Cruise April, 2023. Ratings (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor,...
St Hilda Sea Adventures' New Ship By Ted Scull The largest fleet of small Quirky Cruise ships in Europe roams the waters west of Scotland. At one time, to visit Scotland's widespread archipelagos and some individual islands, the local ferries were just about the only...
World Traveller Cruise Review. Reviewer C.J. Young from USA. Cruise Line Atlas Ocean Voyages. Ship World Traveller. Destination Mediterranean, to Nice, France. # of Nights 7. Departure Port Barcelona, Spain. Date of Cruise May, 2023. Ratings (5=excellent, 4=very good,...
