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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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Reader Review: Scenic Spirit on the Mekong (SCENIC)

Reader Review: Scenic Spirit on the Mekong (SCENIC)

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...

Mekong River Cruise: 15 Reasons to Choose Scenic

Mekong River Cruise: 15 Reasons to Choose Scenic

Mekong River Cruise with Scenic. By Heidi Sarna. My first Mekong River cruise a decade ago was with Pandaw, a pioneer of Southeast Asia river cruising and one of my favorite small-ship cruise lines. They offer a casual old-world experience aboard...

12 Budgeting Tips for Planning a Small Ship Cruise

12 Budgeting Tips for Planning a Small Ship Cruise

Tips for Planning a Small Ship Cruise by Ted Scull & Heidi Sarna. A small-ship cruise, like any cruise, includes a lot of the basics in the fare — your cabin, meals and often guides/lecturers — but not everything. Because small-ship cruises are interesting and...

MURRAY River Cruises

MURRAY River Cruises

Murray River Cruises Updated Oct 15, 2024 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...

CORAL Expeditions

CORAL Expeditions

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 — Chic and Unique in the Galápagos

Celebrity Flora — Chic and Unique in the Galápagos

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

PAUL Gauguin Cruises

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,...

Alaska Cruise Adventures with UnCruise: A Review (2019)

Alaska Cruise Adventures with UnCruise: A Review (2019)

Small-Ship Alaska Cruise Adventures. By Judi Cohen. The moment I arrived in sunny Juneau where my Uncruise "Glacier Country Adventure" would begin and end, I knew this would be no ordinary 7-night Alaska cruise. As we were welcomed aboard the 90-passenger S.S. Legacy,...

AMA WATERWAYS

AMA WATERWAYS

Articles About AmaWaterways Submit Your Own Review Visit Our Reader Review Form   QuirkyCruise Review About AmaWaterways Founded in 2002 as Amadeus Waterways, the company changed its name in 2008 to AmaWaterways. It is generally regarded as one of the world’s top...

Notable New Small-Ship Cruise Itineraries

Notable New Small-Ship Cruise Itineraries

New Small-Ship Cruise Itineraries. By Anne Kalosh. To show the range and diversity of small ship styles and destinations, QuirkyCruise.com selected four companies that have recently announced new or improved itineraries. One line provides an authentic, deep wilderness...

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