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...
Gota Canal Steamship Company The ships are historic treasures, full of charm and purpose-built to transit the canal; a truly unique way to see Sweden. Three historic canal boats sail full or partial cruises Sweden between Stockholm, the capital, and Gothenburg,...
Hapag-Lloyd's New Expedition Ship By Ted Scull. The naming ceremony for Hapag-Lloyd’s second of three expedition ships, HANSEATIC INSPIRATION, took place in Hamburg on October 11th. The traditional Champagne bottle was sent on its way to collide with the ship’s hull...
Special Note: As only two of the 12 ships in the Hurtigruten daily service coastal fleet fall below our limit of 300 cabin passengers, a brief addendum at the end will describe the remaining ships that handle from 451 to 640 berthed passengers. Also, the expedition...
Amazon Nature Tours Updated August 2025 The owner of Nature Tours, Mark Baker, is a native of Rhode Island and brings his skills in boatbuilding to his river touring operation. At one time, he also imported lumber from Brazil, but it was an Amazon Basin visit that...
Canal Cruising in France Text by Christina Colon. Photos & wine picks by Peter Barnes. Updated March 2025 — Book by April 30, 2025, and enjoy 30% of select 2025 private charters for 6 guests. More info HERE. After a few glorious days in Paris, my partner Peter and...
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sponsored 3 Small Scottish Ships Looking for a vacation with some personality? St Hilda Sea Adventures is a family-run business that has offered wonderful off-beat Scottish island cruises for more than 15 years. Carrying just 6 to 11 passengers, each of their three...
Croatian Coastal Cruise Review By Susan R. Pollack Updated March 2025 After being cooped up in the house for 2½ years and weary of our long pandemic pause from traveling, my husband and I decided the time had come to split Detroit — for Split, Croatia. Familiar to...
Wine Cruise aboard American Empress By Katherine Rodeghier 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, including American Empress....
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...
Greg Mortimer Cruise Review By Nicholas Kontis While I never tire of cruising, some voyages are more memorable than others. One such journey was a 10-night Central America cruise through the Panama Canal, from Costa Rica’s Pacific shore to historic Cartagena on...
Why do a Windstar Cruise in Tahiti? By Christine Bottross I spent a week aboard the beautiful 148-pax Wind Spirit in French Polynesia this past September and had a wonderful time. Here are my nine reasons, along with photos and videos I enjoyed capturing throughout...
"Escape Clauses – Getting Away With a Travel Writing Life" We like supporting writers who love traveling as much as we do, especially the more unusual and offbeat stuff. So in that spirit, below we feature a little teaser about a new travel memoir from writer Bob...
Barge Luciole Review. REVIEWER Meme Moy from USA. CRUISE LINE Luciole. SHIP Barge Luciole. DESTINATION France, Nivernais Canal # OF NIGHTS, 6. DEPARTURE PORT Auxerre, France. DATE OF CRUISE Aug, 2022. OVERALL EXPERIENCE RATING 5 out of 5 stars  (5=excellent, 4=very...
New Ships for American Cruise Lines By Ted Scull The second incarnation of American Cruises Lines (ACL) began in 1999 with the first ship, American Eagle, appearing a year later to take just 48 passengers along the Eastern Seaboard and inland waters. A year later, a...
Elizabeth G Review by Robin McKelvie Easing down the pontoon in Oban to board the Elizabeth G we’ve already been on a journey together. More than one. In 2014 I surged out into the deep North Atlantic to St Kilda aboard this converted Norwegian rescue vessel. Then a...
Variety Cruises Review of Galileo. REVIEWER Jeff Freelinger from USA. CRUISE LINE Variety. SHIP Galileo. DESTINATION Greece & the Greek Isles. # OF NIGHTS, 7. DEPARTURE PORT Athens/Piraeus, Greece. DATE OF CRUISE October, 2022. OVERALL EXPERIENCE RATING 5 out of 5...
