UnCruise Columbia & Snake River Cruise Winner By Heidi Sarna & Ted Scull. 🎉 And THE WINNER IS …. Adam Klein of Arizona! Adam was chosen at random from thousands of entries to win our awesome “free 7-night cruise with UnCruise Adventures” contest. “I...
Arctic Cruise. By William J. Mayes, Editor of Sea Lines, The Ocean Liner Society (UK). Oceanwide Expeditions, a company that has been providing expedition cruises on its own converted ships or on chartered ships for 25 years, finally got its first new ship in May...
NAT GEO VENTURE in Alaska. REVIEWER Laura Virkler from the USA. CRUISE LINE Lindblad Expeditions. SHIP National Geographic Venture. DESTINATION Southeast Alaska. # OF NIGHTS 7. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS July 2019, from Sitka, Alaska. OVERALL RATING 5 out of 5 stars...
Danube River Cruise on the New AmaMagna. By Gene Sloan. Like other passengers who have traveled before on European river ships, I am stunned when I first walk onto AmaMagna. The lobby of the new AmaWaterways vessel on the Danube seems to go on forever, and it’s not...
Reader Review: Scenic Spirit. REVIEWER Walt Bruyns/Jan Hayes from Canada. CRUISE LINE Scenic. SHIP Scenic Spirit. DESTINATION Cambodia/Vietnam. # OF NIGHTS 7. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS October 2018, from Siem Reap, Cambodia. OVERALL RATING 5 out of 5 stars...
Murray River Cruises. Virtually unknown outside of Australia and New Zealand, the Murray River, navigable for hundreds of miles, threads through the Outback between New South Wales and Victoria and enters South Australia to then empty into a vast lake at the edge of...
Murray River Steamboat Cruise. Introduction by Ted Scull. Steamboats have plied Australia’s Murray River since the mid-19th century. Today steamers range from wood-fired antiques, the topic of this report below, to modern replica sternwheelers. A handful make...
Coral Expeditions Review Coral Expeditions, based in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, got its start in 1984 as Coral Princess Cruises by refitting a WWII submarine chaser into a small passenger-carrying ship for Great Barrier Reef cruises. With this initial success,...
Celebrity Flora. By Anne Kalosh. The newly minted, all-suite Celebrity Flora has just started sailing in the Galápagos Islands, where it's the poshest, and perhaps the most sustainable, way to travel. Tourism is highly regulated in this remote archipelago and marine...
Paul Gauguin Cruises French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin lived in Tahiti in the late 19th century and brought to the world images of French Polynesia and its cultures. This ship, named for him, plies the South Pacific’s tropical aqua-blue waters year-round,...
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Small-Ship Cruise News By Anne Kalosh Here's a roundup of some recent happenings in small-ship cruising. First, a Pair of Expeditions Ships is Named Two notable expedition ships, National Geographic Resolution and SH Minerva, were officially named in festivities at...
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Multi-Generation Family Cruise By Beverly Fonner It had been a plan to travel to Alaska with our children and grandchildren. However, every year, there seemed to be a conflict and although disappointed, we would look forward to trying to make it happen the next year....
9 Small Ship Scottish Cruises You Should Know About By Ted Scull & Robin McKelvie Scotland is one of the world’s top small-ship cruise destinations. The exceedingly scenic isles off Scotland's west coast are an ideal backdrop for intimate small-ship cruising. Over...
What can you expect on an Ecoventura Galapagos Cruise? By Dana Freeman Discovering the Galápagos Islands is generally high on most cruisers’ bucket lists. For many reasons. Including the legendary giant tortoises! However, experiencing it on a small luxury yacht is...
Exploring the Waterways of Ontario aboard Kawartha Voyageur — A Look Back to a 1997 Cruise By Theodore W. Scull This article is a look back at Ted's Kawartha Voyageur cruise in 1997, in a story he wrote for the now sadly defunct "Cruise Travel" magazine. Good to...
New Galápagos Yachts for Lindblad & Aqua Expeditions by Anne Kalosh Lindblad Expeditions and Aqua Expeditions are each putting a new yacht into the Galápagos Islands in 2022. For Lindblad, it's the former Crystal Esprit, acquired in September for $13 million from...
Cruising Canada’s Rideau Canal on Kawartha Voyageur By Judi Cohen With only a handful of cruise lines operating in Canada due to COVID restrictions, I was on a mission to cruise on every small ship in the Province of Ontario, close to home in Toronto. Cruising aboard...
Carbon Neutral Cruising with Aurora Expeditions By Anne Kalosh Aurora Expeditions has been certified 100 percent carbon neutral and plans an Antarctic Climate Expedition in 2023, led by renowned oceanographer and conservationist Dr. Sylvia Earle. The trip will take...
Pandaw River Cruises June 28, 2022 UPDATE — Pandaw Restarted! Pandaw resumed river cruise in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and India in September/October 2022! Myanmar (Burma) remains suspended due to political unrest and unsafe travel conditions. Company...
Active Danube River Cruising with Emerald By John Roberts Emerald Cruises has created a fun way to bring a lot more energy to river cruising. The line's EmeraldACTIVE program launched in 2019, and we have now sailed twice on the river cruise line’s Emerald Destiny to...
