UnCruise Adventures 2024 Cruises Sponsored UnCruise Adventures, the leader in small-ship Alaska cruises with a nine-vessel fleet, with several new wide-ranging additions beginning in May 2024, including to the Alaska Panhandle, the more snowscapes will enliven the...
Greg Mortimer (Aurora Expeditions) Antarctica by Jerrol Golden of Golden Travel Co. Updated November 2025 The Greg Mortimer, our ship, gently rolls as we traverse the notorious Drake Passage with its 12-foot swells. Crossing the Drake Passage was for me like sitting...
Endurance Antarctica Review. Reviewer Lisa from USA. Cruise Line Lindblad Expeditions. Ship 126-pax National Geographic Endurance Destination Antarctica. # of Nights 10. Departure Port Ushuaia. Date of Cruise Nov 30, 2023. Ratings (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good,...
sponsored Black Friday Cruise Offers 2023 By Heidi & Ted It's that time of year again. The holiday season is upon us and with it comes the traditional Black Friday offers that some of our favorite small-ship cruise lines are sharing with us. We're so glad to tell...
St Lawrence Cruise Lines Spring Savings For 2024 Our friends at St Lawrence Cruise Lines are offering 10% off all spring cruises from May 12 to June 23, 2024, aboard the comfortable and cozy classic river boat, the 64-passenger Canadian Empress. With the flora coming...
Viking Skadi Rhine River Review. Reviewer Lisa Dechirico from USA. Cruise Line Viking. Ship 190-pax Skadi. Destination Rhine River. # of Nights 7. Departure Port Amsterdam. Date of Cruise 2023. Ratings (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor, 1=terrible) -Overall...
sponsored Meet CruiseCompete Co-Founder Heidi Allison Updated March 2024 We are very sad to report that Heidi passed away in early 2024. The company she co-founded in 2003 continues to operate. We had a chat with Heidi Allison, travel industry veteran, avid traveler...
Cruising the Danube on AmaWaterways’ AmaSonata By Gwen Pratesi Grand European cities, castles nestled in hillsides overlooking the river, terraced vineyards as far as the eye can see, and a medieval town that could be the setting of a fairytale. These were the scenes...
Hurtigruten Expeditions Rebranding as HX By Anne Kalosh Hurtigruten Expeditions is changing its name and brand identity to HX in December. This further distinguishes the six-ship expedition fleet from Hurtigruten Norway, the original Norwegian Coastal Express fleet...
Choosing a Travel Advisor By Charlie & Sherrie Funk Sherrie Funk started the first cruise-only travel agency in Tennessee in 1988. Her husband, Charlie Funk, joined her full-time in 1993. The pair ran Just Cruisin’ Plus for 40 years. They are nationally known...
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Island Windjammers Packing Tips & Cruise Insights By Sarretta McCaslin My husband and I love to travel, and cruises have become a favored way to do so — we’ve been on over 25 cruises in 33 years of marriage. We appreciate being able to see many different areas or...
Small Ship Cruises to the Norwegian Fjords By Ted Scull & Heidi Sarna Updated November 2025 by Jackie Sheckler Finch The coast of Norway is long and beautiful. If you include all the shorelines of the bays, fjords, and myriad of islands — coastal Norway adds up to...
Celebrity River Boats By Anne Kalosh Branching into European river cruising, Celebrity Cruises ordered 10 vessels of a new design with plans to begin sailing in 2027. And — look out Viking, AmaWaterways, Avalon, Scenic and others — that is only a start. New Design The...
Planning Your Own Shore Excursions May Be Cheaper & More Tailored to Your Interests Than Booking the Cruise Lines' Tours By Judi Cuervo, with Heidi Sarna The dream of a flight with Napa Valley Balloons couldn’t have been better timed. A cruise was on the horizon,...
Island Windjammers Vela Review Reviewer Sarretta McCaslin from USA. Cruise Line Island Windjammers. Ship The 26-passenger Vela. Destination French West Indies & Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. # of Nights 12. Departure Port St Lucia; cruise ended in St Kitts....
Ponant and Aqua Expeditions By Anne Kalosh Ponant Explorations bought a majority stake in Aqua Expeditions, a little gem of a company with very intimate ships and unusual ocean and river itineraries in biodiversity hotspots. Destinations include the Galápagos, Raja...
Island Windjammers Review By Amy Fried Standing barefoot on the teak deck of the Diamant, with nothing but the open sea ahead and a gentle Caribbean breeze swirling around me, I felt a world away from the crowds and glitz of a traditional cruise. This isn’t a cruise...
Cruising Solo By Theodore W. Scull I married a woman several decades ago who loved travel but had never been on anything like a traditional cruise ship of any size. She was ever so eager to try one. To stay with the within the parameters of QuirkyCruise, which did not...
Galápagos Cruise Review By Alison Abbott Swimming with sharks, snorkeling with penguins, photographing blue-footed boobies, diving with sea lions; I haven’t spoken to many travelers who don’t have a Galápagos adventure on their bucket list. After experiencing the...
Swan Hellenic Antarctica Review by Robin McKelvie Half a dozen gentoo penguins bounce past the Zodiac, fishing and keeping a keen watch out for predatory leopard seals. On our other flank a humpback whale breaks the surface, then disappears with a whip of its mighty...
CroisiEurope Rhine River Cruise Review By Peter Knego On various journeys with a wide range of river cruise lines on European waterways, I’ve encountered the vessels of French-owned CroisiEurope with a certain level of curiosity. Once or twice, I’ve even walked across...
