Caribbean Scuba Diving + Island Windjammers Cruise. By Elysa Leonard. Excited and ready for an adventure, I left my land-locked home in the suburbs of Washington DC., and flew, via Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. It was an early...
EXPEDITION CRUISES are one of the five types of small-ship cruises covered on QuirkyCruise.com. Expedition cruises have a distinctive learning element and bring to mind a sense of adventure whether it’s visiting remote peoples in the South Pacific or plying the Upper...
Reduce Plastic Waste While Traveling By Anne Kalosh. The seas are awash in plastic. Chances are, if you're an expedition-cruise "type," you're more environmentally aware and eager to do your part to combat this scourge. The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise...
One Ocean Expeditions UPDATE (Jan 2021) One Ocean Expeditions operations are suspended; we'll provide further updates when known. In late May 2019, the expedition line announced that the Russians had abruptly cancelled the charters for the AKADEMIK pair, and that One...
A Chat with AmaWaterways Kristin Karst By Anne Kalosh. Aboard AmaDara recently for a week cruising on the Mekong River, QuirkyCruise.com’s Anne Kalosh spoke with Kristin Karst, executive vice president and co-owner of AmaWaterways. Anne also interviewed tour leader...
AmaDara's Mekong River Captain Boat Dang Tuc By Anne Kalosh. Inspired by the Australian miniseries "All Rivers Run" about a life of adventure on a paddle-steamer, a young Vietnamese set his heart on a ship career. And today, Dang Tuc, 52, commands AmaDara, one of the...
CroisiEurope Danube River Cruise Giveaway Winner By Heidi & Ted. We sure do love ❤️ our job when we get to contact the lucky winner of our free cruise giveaway and share the good news! Last week we had the pleasure of picking the winner, at random,...
The Ship Vs. Boat Debate By Ted Scull. Does it matter? Some people can get pretty worked up about the designation. I think it is all fun, because language is fun, and the proper use of language is important for communicating. So, I enter the fray. Let’s play with the...
Vietnam's Red River (Pandaw) by Rachael REVIEWER Rachael from the US. CRUISE LINE Pandaw. SHIP Angkor Pandaw. DESTINATION Halong Bay and Red River, Vietnam. # OF NIGHTS 10. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS May 2018, from Halong Bay, Vietnam. OVERALL RATING 5 out of 5 stars...
Mediterranean Cruise Pre & Post Stays in Cannes & Rome By Christina Colon & Peter Barnes Few other destinations can conjure a sense of vacation opulence and romantic anticipation quite like the French Riviera. Upon learning that the port of embarkation for...
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Dan Blanchard Shares 7 Secret Places in Alaska sponsored By Heidi & Dan Dan Blanchard, founder & CEO of UnCruise Adventures, knows Alaska. He lives and breathes Alaska. Dan was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and calls Juneau home. We asked Dan to...
Shackleton's Endurance Found! By Anne Kalosh. The discovery of explorer Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, 107 years after it sank in the Antarctic, is cause for great excitement the world over including in expedition cruising. It was the search expedition Endurance22...
Barge Cruising in France By Heidi Sarna & Edward Anderson We had a chat with Edward Anderson, owner-operator, along with his wife Cindy, of the luxury 6-passenger Grand Victoria canal barge. To operate a luxury hotel barge like Grand Victoria, you have to know a...
COVID-19 Small-Ship Cruising Protocols By Anne Kalosh. September 20, 2022 Update Reporter Anne Kalosh updates us on the easing of COVID-19 protocols HERE. June 17 2022 Update With the exception of some itineraries in Southeast Asia and China (and eastern Europe and...
Abercrombie & Kent Abercrombie & Kent was founded in 1962 as a safari tour operator in East Africa and has expanded over the decades to include much of the world on land tours and a selection of small-ship cruise offerings — on various ships that it books into...
Pacific Northwest Cruising on American Empress By John Roberts It’s not quite a Christmas Markets cruise in the European style, but you can enjoy a river cruise in December just ahead of the holiday season while savoring a large slice of Americana. That’s just what we...
6 Small-Ship Captains Pick Their Favorite Ports By Anne Kalosh. QuirkyCruise asked a handful of small-ship captains who command a range of small vessels — yachts, paddle-wheelers, tall ships — about their favorite ports to sail into. Their picks are fascinating. Here...
No Single Supplement for UnCruise sponsored post Eager to see Alaska by small-ship cruise as a solo traveler? Then UnCruise is a great option. For folks traveling alone, UnCruise offers a friendly casual vibe among passengers and crew, plus the many activities —...
Captain Dan's Favorite Juneau Restaurants UnCruise Owner & CEO Captain Dan Blanchard shares his favorite places to eat in his home town of Juneau, Alaska, Roma. Love breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. New Orleans-style Benedicts are fabulous with a wonderful...
Small Ship Croatia Cruise Deals sponsored post There are few small-ship cruising destinations as appealing as Croatia! Croatia’s long lovely coast is a sinewy ribbon of rocky bluffs, romantic beaches, and the vestiges of Roman and medieval cities. And the coastal...
Rhine River Family Cruises By Heidi Sarna. Aug 2024 Update: The River Empress is no longer with Uniworld, but the line offers nearly identical Rhine River cruises to the one I took on similar river ships, including the aboard the 152-passenger SS Antoinette. By the...
