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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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13 Tips for Booking Small Ship Cruises

13 Tips for Booking Small Ship Cruises

Tips for Booking Small Ship Cruises By Heidi Sarna. Small ship cruises are often bound for wonderfully far-flung places that involve complex flights and connections, hotel stays before or after the cruise, and things to figure out like tourist visas, possible...

Photo Essay: Polar Guide Richard White's Arctic Wildlife Photography

Photo Essay: Polar Guide Richard White's Arctic Wildlife Photography

Polar Guide Richard White's Arctic wildlife photography will melt your heart and inspire you to visit the North Pole sooner rather than later. QuirkyCruise.com's favorite expedition leader and wildlife photographer, Richard  just returned from the Arctic, a part of...

QuirkyCruise News: Viking River Cruises New Vessels

QuirkyCruise News: Viking River Cruises New Vessels

By Anne Kalosh. Viking River Cruises New Vessels. Viking River Cruises plans to debut seven new vessels in 2019, resuming its impressive growth track after a slight pause. The company has ordered six Viking Longships, each carrying 190 passengers, to sail on the...

CRYSTAL Yacht Expedition Cruises (DEFUNCT)

CRYSTAL Yacht Expedition Cruises (DEFUNCT)

Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises Update February 2022 Crystal Cruises has ceased all operations due to bankruptcy. All ships are currently laid up. The news is sad indeed for a once-beloved line. RELATED: More details on Crystal closing down. Below archived from 2020....

QuirkyCruise Q&A: Polar Guide Graham Charles Talks Polar Climate Change

QuirkyCruise Q&A: Polar Guide Graham Charles Talks Polar Climate Change

QuirkyCruise’s Heidi Sarna asks polar guide and PTGA President Graham Charles about polar climate change, what he’s observed and learned over the 20 years he’s been traveling and guiding in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. Graham also discusses what expedition cruise...

ECOVENTURA

ECOVENTURA

Ecoventura This family-run expedition cruise company has specialized in small-ship cruises to the Galapagos Islands for more than 30 years and owns a fleet of three vessels — two 20-passenger motor yachts, two are more high-end than the third, and one 16-passenger...

QuirkyCruise News: Tauck Taking Reservations for 2020 Oberammergau

QuirkyCruise News: Tauck Taking Reservations for 2020 Oberammergau

By Anne Kalosh. Once every decade since the 1630s, residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have come together to present "Passionsspiele," or the "Passion Play," chronicling Jesus Christ's last days on earth. The tradition began when the bubonic plague was...

POLAR Latitudes

POLAR Latitudes

Polar Latitudes is an expedition firm entirely focused on the south polar region that includes Antarctic Peninsula, South Atlantic Islands, the British Falkland Islands, and South Georgia with its Ernest Shackleton connection and where visitors will likely see more...

GRAND Circle Cruise Line

GRAND Circle Cruise Line

GRAND Circle Cruise Line Grand Circle Cruise Line is an arm of Grand Circle Travel, founded in 1958 as a tour operator for senior adults. In addition, another subsidiary is Overseas Adventure Travel catering to the over 50 for land and sea trips, overlapping with the...

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