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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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QUARK Expeditions

QUARK Expeditions

Quark Expeditions Quark Expeditions has been in business since 1991 offering lots of creative itineraries in the Polar Regions (Arctic, North Pole, & Antarctica) using a fleet of chartered ships including a pair of Russia’s finest icebreakers. The firm was the...

SEADREAM Yacht Club

SEADREAM Yacht Club

SeaDream Yacht Club SeaDream was created for lovers of luxury who shun formality and stiff upper lips and instead embrace a casual “no-jackets-required” elegance on route to the British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Italian Riviera, Adriatic Sea, and other chic pockets of the...

SILVERSEAS Cruises

SILVERSEAS Cruises

Silversea Cruises Originally family-owned and operated by the Lefebvres of Rome, Royal Caribbean now has a 67% stake in Silversea Cruises. The line has been offering high-end cruises since the early 1990s when it first launched the SILVER CLOUD, joining Seabourn as...

SEATREK Sailing Adventures — Indonesian Sailing Ships

SEATREK Sailing Adventures — Indonesian Sailing Ships

Indonesian Sailing Ships By Heidi Sarna Updated November 2025 (Photo above: Katharina & Ombak Putih. * Credit: SeaTrek) SeaTrek’s two traditional Indonesian sailing ships take adventurous souls to remote corners of the vast Indonesian archipelago, the...

Six-Day Galapagos Islands Cruise — an Equatorial Eden

Six-Day Galapagos Islands Cruise — an Equatorial Eden

Six-Day Galapagos Islands Cruise By Randy Mink. Prehistoric-looking iguanas skittering across the sand. Playful sea lions frolicking in the waves. Giant tortoises you almost want to hop onto and ride. Snorkeling with sea turtles in blue-green water so pretty that you...

Ted Talks — It All Started with the Nantucket Steamer

Ted Talks — It All Started with the Nantucket Steamer

It All Started with the Nantucket Steamer By Ted Scull. Beginning when I was six or seven years of age, my family began spending August and early September on Nantucket Island, a place we would gravitate to for decades. My grandparents and great aunt had starting...

ZEGRAHM Expeditions (Merged with Exodus Travels)

ZEGRAHM Expeditions (Merged with Exodus Travels)

Zegrahm Expeditions (merged with Exodus Travels) As of 2021,  Zegrahm Expeditions now operates under the name Exodus Travels, which is part of the Adventure Division of Travelopia. Archived Review, lasted updated in 2020 Zegrahm Expeditions got its start in 1990 by a...

New Victory II Great Lakes Adventure

New Victory II Great Lakes Adventure

New Victory II Great Lakes Adventure By Judi Cohen (on Instagram @Travelingjudi) Having lived on Lake Ontario for my entire life, it never crossed my mind that the Great Lakes could be a cruising destination. Until August, that is, when my sister-in-law Marla and I...

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