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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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91 Small Ship Cruise Lines By Type

91 Small Ship Cruise Lines By Type

91 Small Ship Cruise Lines By Type We’re the ONLY travel site out there that covers so many small-ship cruise lines in reviews, feature articles and photos — we’re up to 91 small-ship cruise lines and counting! QuirkyCruise.com offers original, quality writing about...

Venice & Its Lagoon on a Quirky Cruise

Venice & Its Lagoon on a Quirky Cruise

Venice & its Lagoon. By Dana Rebmann. We just kept thinking, please don’t rain. The sky was growling and ominous, growing darker and darker by the minute as we waited to board the vaporetto from St. Mark’s Square to San Basilio Quay. We got lucky. When the clouds...

QuirkyCruise News: June 16 #CleanupforSarah

QuirkyCruise News: June 16 #CleanupforSarah

 June 16 #CleanupforSarah. By Anne Kalosh. People around the world will carry out cleanups in their local environments on June 16 to mark the birthday of Sarah Auffret, who dedicated many years of her life to protecting the marine environment in polar regions. AECO...

Caribbean Scuba Diving + Island Windjammers Cruise

Caribbean Scuba Diving + Island Windjammers Cruise

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 Cruise Overview: What is an Expedition Cruise All About?

Expedition Cruise Overview: What is an Expedition Cruise All About?

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...

Best Small-Ship Cruises for Bicycling

Best Small-Ship Cruises for Bicycling

Best Small-Ship Cruises for Bicycling By John Roberts. Cycling offers a unique sense of freedom when exploring a destination. Sitting high in a bike seat and pedaling through European countryside and historic villages and cities lets you see these places in a...

How to Reduce Plastic Waste While Traveling

How to Reduce Plastic Waste While Traveling

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...

ONE Ocean Expeditions (DEFUNCT)

ONE Ocean Expeditions (DEFUNCT)

One Ocean Expeditions Updated January 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...

AmaWaterways Kristin Karst Talks Mekong River Cruising

AmaWaterways Kristin Karst Talks Mekong River Cruising

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...

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