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Vela in the Caribbean Reviewed by Tim B. REVIEWER Tim B. from the USA. CRUISE LINE Island Windjammers. SHIP Vela. DESTINATION The Caribbean from St. Lucia to Grenada. # OF NIGHTS 6. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS Aug 2018, from Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. OVERALL RATING 5 out...
American Queen Steamboat Company Adds Autumn 2018 Departures By Ted Scull. The American Queen Steamboat Company, operating cruises on the Mississippi River and tributaries and on the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia and Snake rivers, will add three additional five-day...
National Geographic Endeavour II in the Galapagos REVIEWER Sapna Rao from Singapore. CRUISE LINE Lindblad Expeditions. SHIP National Geographic Endeavour II. DESTINATION The Galapagos. # OF NIGHTS 7. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS June 2018, from Ecuador. OVERALL RATING 5...
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 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...
German Chancellor Presides Over Crystal Endeavor Keel-Laying By Anne Kalosh. Crystal Endeavor may be a small ship but it caused a big splash in Germany as Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the Aug. 21 keel-laying festivities at MV Werften in Stralsund. Merkel made her...
Grand Mariner in New England REVIEWER Liz Walker from the USA. CRUISE LINE Blount Small Ship Adventures. SHIP Grand Mariner. DESTINATION New England Island Cruise. # OF NIGHTS 3. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS July 2018, from Warren, Rhode Island. OVERALL RATING 2 out of...
Grand Mariner in Rhode Island REVIEWER Lynn Marshall from the USA. CRUISE LINE Blount Small Ship Adventures. SHIP Grand Mariner. DESTINATION Warren, Newport, Block Island and Bristol, Rhode Island. # OF NIGHTS 3. DEPARTURE DATE & PORTS July 2018, from Warren,...
Crazy Cruise Charters 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...
Viking River Cruises Now Adults Only Viking Ocean Cruises, the deep-sea fleet, has had a policy for about two years that no one under the age of 18 will be accepted as a passenger, and now, the adults-only policy has been extended to its huge fleet of riverboats —...
Small Ship Amazon Cruising By David Cogswell. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is — marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an...
American Cruise Lines 5 New Riverboats by Ted Scull. American Cruise Lines, operators of the largest cruise fleet under the U.S. flag, has nearly completed the first of a new series of riverboats at its own yard, Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Salisbury, Maryland. The...
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.
