By Robin Andersen. Updated June 2025 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 forward into gear, pointing the...
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 Competition Award Updated 2024 We're very happy and grateful to have received TWO awards in the prestigious SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, in the categories of: Best Editorial Travel Website:...
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...
