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Here we share the latest small-ship cruise news and first-person cruise reviews and round-ups from our team of globetrotting writers. If you've got a penchant for small-scale travel aboard boats, yachts, tall ships and mini cruisers, then enjoy the ride through our sea of stories about small-ship cruising.

UnCruise Alaska — Review of Their Wild & Woolly Cruise Aboard Wilderness Legacy (2026)

UnCruise Alaska — Review of Their Wild & Woolly Cruise Aboard Wilderness Legacy (2026)

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Wilderness Legacy Cruise Ship Review By Peter Knego (Photo Above: The handsome Wilderness Legacy,...

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Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise Review (2026) — Exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise Review (2026) — Exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise By Aimée Laberge Natashquan, Harrington Harbour,...

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Kerala Backwaters Cruise on the Vaikundam: Life in the Slow Lane

Kerala Backwaters Cruise on the Vaikundam: Life in the Slow Lane

Kerala Backwaters Cruise on the Vaikundam By Heidi Sarna. Updated March 2025 I've been on many small-ship cruises all over the world. But this one was different. India is a vast country with a diverse geography. There are soaring snow-capped mountains, dry dusty...

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SCENIC

Scenic Cruises COVID-19 UPDATE This luxury river cruise line was founded in Australia in 1986, expanded to the UK and Canada in 2007, and to the US in 2008. Most recently Scenic has broadened from its main focus in Western Europe, to include Southeast Asia cruises....

Uniworld's La Venezia & More Small-Ship News

Uniworld's La Venezia & More Small-Ship News

Uniworld's La Venezia & More Small-Ship News By Anne Kalosh. Uniworld's Venice-based River Countess has been fully transformed into the 126-passenger La Venezia with decor inspired by the celebrated Italian artist and textile designer Mariano Fortuny. More than a...

G Adventures

G Adventures

G Adventures For more than 30 years, G Adventures has been offering affordable adventure travel around the world, including small-ship cruises (about 10-15% of their total annual business) on private yachts, catamarans and oceangoing expedition-style ships. The...

Nova Spero Cruises the Scottish East Coast: A Review (UPDATED 2026)

Nova Spero Cruises the Scottish East Coast: A Review (UPDATED 2026)

Nova Spero Cruises the Scottish East Coast By Robin McKelvie Updated January 2026 Tell a Scot you plan to cruise the Scottish coast and they will presume you mean the west coast; a littoral served by an ever-growing flotilla of small ships. Skarv Lines’ 11-passenger...

SeaDream to Resume Caribbean Cruises & Other Updates

SeaDream to Resume Caribbean Cruises & Other Updates

SeaDream Plans to Resume Caribbean Cruises By Anne Kalosh. SeaDream Yacht Club is poised to become the first cruise line to resume sailing in the Caribbean in early November. Replacing its planned program from the U.S. Virgin Islands, SeaDream I is now gearing up for...

OCEANWIDE Expeditions

OCEANWIDE Expeditions

Oceanwide Expeditions Review Oceanwide Expeditions, based in the Netherlands, offers some of the most active and creative onshore adventures in the industry, almost exclusively in the Arctic and Antarctica regions. The ships are comfortable and efficient conveyances,...

Hebridean Princess “Ship of Queens” Has a Storied History

Hebridean Princess “Ship of Queens” Has a Storied History

Hebridean Princess Ship of Queens by Robin McKelvie. The legendary Orient Express is heralded as the Train of Kings. If that’s the case then I reckon the Hebridean Princess is undoubtedly the "Ship of Queens." And not just metaphorically. This grand British dame is a...

George Coughlin — Captain of Many Small Ships

George Coughlin — Captain of Many Small Ships

Small Ship Captain George Coughlin Interview by Ted Scull Updated Sept 2025 George Coughlin has been sailing in navigating roles from mate to pilot to captain for many small ship firms such as Coastwise Cruise Line, Exploration Cruise Lines, Clipper Cruise Line,...

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