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A Guide To 2021's New Small Oceangoing Cruise Ships By Anne Kalosh. For small-ship fans, 2021 will be a veritable moving feast — a whopping 16 new oceangoing vessels are Quirky-sized (300 passengers, max). We can't remember a year when there was such a cornucopia....
Poseidon Expeditions N.B. Voyages to the North Pole aboard chartered Russian icebreakers as below are not currently operating. The Sea Spirit is still operating both in the Arctic region in the summer and Antartica in winter. The icebreakers are kept in the review...
Aqua Expeditions Aqua Expeditions began operating a high-end riverboat on the Peruvian Amazon in 2007. Cruises begin and end at Iquitos, Peru and sail to one source of the Amazon amid the vast Pacaya-Samira Reserve seeing wildlife and visiting riverside communities....
Disney's First Expedition Cruises. By Anne Kalosh. Expedition cruising is booming. And now Disney is helping families get into the action with its first expedition voyages that provide carefully curated programming. Trips to Patagonia, Antarctica and the Galápagos...
COVID-19 & Small-Ship Cruising by Anne Kalosh. Archived story, last updated Jan 12, 2021. For current COVID-19 Small Ship Cruising Protocols Overview, click here. Most cruises on ships of any size are halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic as travel and...
Australia & New Zealand Expeditions Revive. By Anne Kalosh. Big ships are still banned Down Under, with Australia having extended its cruise suspension until March 17 and New Zealand blocking cruises for an unspecified period. However, domestic sailings on small...
Adventure Canada Founded in 1987 and based near Toronto, Adventure Canada’s family line of ownership continues with the second generation expanding the firm’s reaches in Arctic Canada, its more temperate regions and eastward to Greenland, Iceland, Ireland and...
Cruise Traveller's Craig Bowen. QuirkyCruise's Heidi Sarna had an e-chat with Craig Bowen, managing director of Cruise Traveller, an Australia-based travel agency specializing exclusively in the small-ship niche. Craig shares why he’s so passionate about the boutique...
Best Small-Ship Cruises We Didn't Take in 2020. By Heidi Sarna & the Quirky Crew. 2020 hasn't been easy for anyone. As travel writers typically out exploring the world on small-ship cruises, we've been beached; collectively washed up and waiting for the tide to...
Will There Be A 2021 Wave Season? by Anne Kalosh. Throughout 2020, cruise lines tried to tempt home-bound travelers to book a future trip. With abundant deals already floating around, that begs the question: Will there be a 2021 wave season? Wave season — typically...
Hebrides Cruises Hebrides Cruises is a small family-operated line that currently operates two vessels taking just 8 to 10 passengers on cruises to Scotland’s Western Isles, lochs and the Caledonian Canal that stretches 60 miles across Scotland to Inverness. The...
Maine Coast Cruise By Ted Scull For a summer trip, my wife and I hunted for a cruise that would be a complete change of pace, one well removed from mega ships and milling crowds. After a thorough search using brochures that came in the mail and website links, we chose...
Heidi & Ted, along with their team of expert travel writers, have reviewed and traveled their way around the world, seeking out the very best in small-ship cruising. We have organized our reviews in six small buckets — river & canal, sailing, micro, coastal, oceangoing and expedition small-ship cruises.
If you can imagine it, we’ve cruised it! With reviews, articles and destination overviews, we’ve got you covered.
