Two New Ships For Paul Gauguin Cruises By Anne Kalosh. Paul Gauguin Cruises will be adding a pair of new builds with a cutting-edge design. They’ll join the Paul Gauguin ship to sail the South Pacific year-round, starting in 2022. French cruise line Ponant, which...
Narrowboat Cruise: An Unbias River Boat Cruise Review By Robin Andersen. It is hard to beat river cruise along a canal. Guy uses the long wooden pole to push the narrowboat away from the grassy bank where we moored overnight. I am at the tiller and I push the throttle...
Affordable Antarctica – Relatively Speaking By Ted Scull. It is well understood that anyone looking at the QuirkyCruise site will likely have aspirations to travel aboard ships that do not resemble giant floating resorts with thousands of folks aboard. Lots of...
Hurtigruten’s Roald Amundsen by Anne Kalosh. All ship christenings are exciting and special. But that of Hurtigruten’s Roald Amundsen was also very unusual and historic. On Nov. 7, the world’s first hybrid battery-powered cruise vessel was named in spectacular...
AECO Lines Voluntarily Ban Heavy Fuel Oil By Anne Kalosh. The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) has just approved a self-imposed ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil (HFO) there. The current practice among the association’s members is...
Windstar is Stretching Three Ships By Anne Kalosh. What’s being called the most challenging cruise ship retrofit ever attempted is taking place right now in Sicily. There, at Fincantieri’s Palermo yard, Windstar Cruises’ Star Breeze has been cut in half so a new...
French Canal Cruising: My French Love Affair Crew, Excursions & Paris! By Elysa Leonard. Crazy Crew Crush The staff on a small-ship cruise, especially a barge cruise carrying only six passengers, is a vital ingredient for a memorable holiday. French canal cruising...
SATW Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award Ted and I are thrilled and grateful to have been awarded an Honorable Mention in the prestigious SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, in the category of Travel Journalism Sites. And no less, in the...
Avalon Waterways Avalon entered the fast-growing river cruise market in 2004 and is owned by the Swiss-based Globus family of travel industry brands. The line aims for the upper end of the river cruise market, operating a large number of riverboats on a vast range of...
Emerald Cruises. Emerald Cruises started in 2014 and operates a fleet of six similar riverboats along Europe’s Rhine, Rhone, Saône, Main, Danube, Moselle and Douro Rivers. In Southeast Asia, one vessel plies the Mekong River. Yachts cruise Mediterranean waters such...
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4 New Yacht Cruises in 2023 by Anne Kalosh We love yachts at QuirkyCruise. Here are some standout 2023 itineraries, from the Adriatic's Dalmatian Coast to the Sea of Cortez, the Caribbean and a special Belize eclipse cruise. They sail on a variety of different yacht...
Small-Ship Cruise Lines Ease COVID-19 Protocols by Anne Kalosh More and more small-ship cruise lines are easing COVID-19 protocols. Mainly, lines are eliminating pre-cruise testing where allowed by the destination and mandatory masking. Some are doing away with their...
Record Low Water Levels Impact European Rivers By Ted Scull Sandy streams seen in this photo below of the Loire Valley make it impossible for river traffic to proceed. Apart from most of the Loire, sections of the Rhine River have also been affected by record low...
American Cruise Lines' Review of American Star. REVIEWER Beth Holley from the USA. CRUISE LINE American Cruise Lines. SHIP American Star. DESTINATION New England. # OF NIGHTS, 7. DEPARTURE PORT New Bedford, Rhode Island. DATE OF CRUISE August, 2022. OVERALL EXPERIENCE...
American Cruise Lines Harmony Review. REVIEWER D Waters from USA. CRUISE LINE American Cruise Lines. SHIP Harmony. DESTINATION Mississippi River. # OF NIGHTS, 7. DEPARTURE PORT New Orleans. DATE OF CRUISE October, 2021. OVERALL EXPERIENCE RATING 1 out of 5 stars ...
Danube River by Ted Scull. The Danube River has provided a river route for human migration, invasion, and trade since Celtic, Greek, Roman, Mongol, Turkish, and modern times, in effect linking the Occident and Orient, Christianity and Islam. The layers of civilization...
American Queen Voyages' Ocean Victory By Anne Kalosh Update July 2024: Anne Kalosh reports on John Waggoner leading the come back of Victory Cruise Lines. Update Feb 24 2024: The three riverboats of American Queen Voyages, including the American Queen, ceased...
The 2023 Great Lakes Season by Ted Scull For the 2023 Great Lakes season, it’s a happy fact that all the 2022 cruise lines are returning, an indication that this once on-again off-again Canadian American cruising region has established both awareness and a following....
My Great Lakes Cruise Review By Karl Zimmermann Update August 2024 — QC's Anne Kalosh reports, "Good news for Great Lakes cruisers, there will soon be another choice with the rebirth of Victory Cruise Lines in 2025. Its former owner, John Waggoner, picked up the...
Viking Turns 25 By Anne Kalosh. Twenty-five years ago this month — August 1997 — Viking launched on the rivers of Russia. It has blossomed into a global cruise operator plying 20 rivers, five oceans, five Great Lakes and all seven continents. From the start, "We...
New Lindblad Galápagos Ship by Anne Kalosh Ecuadorian officials welcomed Lindblad Expeditions' National Geographic Islander ll in festivities at Salinas on the mainland leading up to this small ship's entry into Galápagos service. The former Crystal Esprit was...
