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...
Viking Builds Egypt Riverboat By Anne Kalosh. As tourism to Egypt rebounds, Viking Cruises is expanding with a newly built Nile riverboat and a pair of pre-cruise tours in the U.K., both focused on Egyptology. These sound fascinating, with Viking's signature...
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...
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The Roaming Boomers By Anne Kalosh Dave and Carol Porter sold their Michigan business in 2006, when he turned 50, and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. Their early retirement plans were dashed by the 2008 stock market crash that wiped away a chunk of their life's savings....
Small Cruise Line Review: St. Lawrence Cruise Lines’ Canadian Empress By Judi Cohen As we’ve had a moment of calm in the pandemic storm, I’ve finally been able to start traveling again. I’ve been reluctant to go far from home, so we’ve been determined to experience as...
Atlas Ocean Voyages Beautiful World Navigator By Peter Knego What a joy it was to be heading back to Greece, one of my favorite places on the planet, to join Atlas Ocean Voyages beautiful World Navigator on her maiden cruise to Alexandria via several of Greece’s most...
Grand Victoria French Barge Cruise Being a curious bird, QuirkyCruise co-founder Heidi Sarna asked owners-operators-captains Edward Anderson & Cindy Unvericht some questions about their 6-passenger Grand Victoria canal barge, which is just hitting the water again...
American Queen Voyages 🎧 Listen to Ted’s audio tour of the American Queen: 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. The...
Atlas Ocean Voyages’ World Navigator By Peter Knego A maiden voyage is a milestone event that many crossers and cruisers yearn to be a part of. However, as most know, the cachet of being a “maiden voyager” comes with caveats, especially when the ship is the first for...
Windstar's Newly Stretched Star Breeze By Dana Freeman I recently spent a week sailing in the Caribbean round-trip from St. Maarten on Windstar Cruises' Star Breeze, July 24-31 (2021), their Star Class Yacht that recently underwent a $250 million renovation and...
West Africa Small Ship Cruising with Hurtigruten Edited by Ted Scull Hurtigruten, an ever-growing dual-purpose provider of regular passenger and cargo services along the Norwegian Coast and expedition destinations to diverse parts of the globe, is breaking truly new...
The Debut of The American Queen By Ted Scull. 🎧 Listen to Ted's audio tour of the American Queen: 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...
National Geographic Endurance Named In Iceland By Anne Kalosh In a long-awaited day for Lindblad Expeditions, its first polar new build, National Geographic Endurance, was christened at festivities in Iceland. The July 21 ceremony was the first naming of an...
Australis If you really want to get away from it all, but don’t have a ton of time, Chilean cruise line Australis offers short expedition cruises of a week or less to the southernmost regions of Chile and Argentina. Plus, they can be combined with land tours in the...
