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Star Clippers Adding New Ports By Anne Kalosh. Tall ship fleet Star Clippers will explore unusual new destinations in the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia on departures beginning in April 2020. In the Mediterranean, new ports for the 227-passenger Royal Clipper...
Small Oceangoing New Builds of 2019 By Anne Kalosh. Small-ship fans are in luck. 2019's crop of oceangoing new builds offers a huge selection, ranging from a sail-powered tall ship and a luxurious yacht to expedition vessels of varied designs and features. Of the 25...
Q&A with UnCruise Expedition Guide Sarah Sinn-White By John Roberts. Sarah Sinn-White was one of the guides during our “Rivers of Adventure” sailing on the Columbia and Snake rivers on the 120-passenger SS Legacy. The always wise-cracking, super-friendly...
Small Ship Cruise Line Reviews by Destination 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...
Silver Wind to Become Ice-Class Ship By Anne Kalosh. Silver Wind is going to get a second extensive refurbishment, completing a project started in late 2018, that will include a strengthened, ice-class hull, bigger suites and other upgrades. It's all part of the...
New Expedition Ships for 2019-2022 By Heidi Sarna & Ted Scull. The big news in the small-ship world of late are the 25 expedition ships (under 300 passengers) being built or on order. An unprecedented number of cruise lines have been investing time and resources...
UnCruise Adventures SS Legacy By John Roberts. We wake up at the crack of dawn and make our way to the top of the ship. It’s a quick trip from our small cabin on Deck 3 — just one level up to reach the top of UnCruise Adventures' SS Legacy. On the first morning of our...
Too Much Mango By Elise Lentz. Ever wonder what it would be like to work on cruise ships? Small cruise ships? For 15 years? Elise & Tim Lentz have worked on ships big and small as cruise directors, shore excursion managers, tour directors and event managers for...
Ponant's Gastronomy, Vineyards and Grand Crus Cruise 🍷 By Anne Kalosh. French cruise line Ponant is planning a fabulous gastronomy and wine sailing aboard one of its sexy mega-yachts — and, ooh la la, would we love to be on this one!...
Charming Older Ships By Ted Scull. When you are young, you might think something old is not cool and worse, maybe even inferior. Today, with technology changing so fast, it is hard to keep up with what is the newest. And does new automatically mean it is better than...
Lindblad Expeditions’ New National Geographic Venture By John Roberts. Lindblad Expeditions welcomed the newest ship, the 100-passenger, 50-stateroom National Geographic Venture, to its fleet at a ceremony at the historic Treasure Island Pier 1 in San Francisco. My...
JetSetSarah Circumnavigates Iceland By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon. The mountain range, as jagged as an electrocardiogram readout, is the color of chocolate pudding. Rising sharply from a navy blue sea, each peak is capped with an ivory crown of snow and punctuated with...
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.
