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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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Heidi and Ted HEIDI SARNA

I'm up to 78 countries and 110+ cruises worldwide, and it's the small ship journeys that I love writing about most. And so QuirkyCruise.com was born, an excellent research tool for planning your own unforgettable small ship trip.

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5 Types of Small Ship Cruises

5 Types of Small Ship Cruises

By Heidi & Ted To help you browse, search, dream and plan your next small-ship cruise, QuirkyCruise covers five different types of small ship cruises that ply the waterways of the world carrying fewer than 300 passengers: River & Canal boats Coastal ships...

QuirkyCruise Q&A: SunStone Ships Talks Expedition Vessels

QuirkyCruise Q&A: SunStone Ships Talks Expedition Vessels

QuirkyCruise had an e-chat with Niels-Erik Lund, president and CEO of SunStone Ships Inc., a Miami Florida-based tonnage provider. SunStone is building a fleet of new expedition-style cruise ships — called the INFINITY series — in China (by China Merchants Heavy...

Eastern Europe Danube River Cruise Sampler — Part 2

Eastern Europe Danube River Cruise Sampler — Part 2

By Randy Mink. In Part 2 of Randy Mink’s Eastern Europe river cruise odyssey, the story continues on board the 169-passenger Scenic Crystal as it plies the Danube River toward Bucharest, calling in Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. The 10-night “Black Sea Explorer”...

Eastern Europe Danube River Cruise Sampler — Part 1

Eastern Europe Danube River Cruise Sampler — Part 1

By Randy Mink. An Eastern Europe Danube River cruise with Scenic peeks into Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. On a shore excursion in northern Bulgaria, I constantly had my nose pressed to the bus window, not wanting to miss a thing as we rolled through...

20 Next Generation Expedition Ships in the Pipeline for 2018-2020

20 Next Generation Expedition Ships in the Pipeline for 2018-2020

By Sasha Wodtke, Heidi Sarna & Ted Scull. 20 Next Generation Expedition Ships in the Pipeline for 2018-2020 In recent years, an unprecedented number of cruise lines have been investing time and resources into building small expedition cruise ships to explore...

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