Uniworld Boutique River Cruises

Cruise Specialists host Deidre Irlam has hosted many voyages over the years, but this one truly felt like an exciting new voyage and so we’re sharing her first hand experience to on a voyage to India. It began on a Transatlantic crossing to England via the Queen Mary 2, thereby avoiding much of the jetlag with the 5 hours lost at mid-day. (A true cruise lover just sees these days as extra vacation and time to enjoy the ship!) ... Read more

In the all-inclusive segment of the river cruise market, Uniworld Boutique River Cruises and Scenic are two of the top contenders. In this post, we compare all inclusive river cruises from these two lines. Scenic Japser. © 2015 Ralph Grizzle Uniworld’s Maria Theresa. © 2015 Ralph Grizzle Because of the limitations imposed on river cruisers (maximum widths and lengths are dictated by locks), the hardware components, meaning the ships themselves, are very much alike for both Uniworld and Scenic. ... Read more

On bicycles while cruising AmaWaterways. Apologies for the yellow shorts!   For active travelers, river cruising too often gets a bad rap. It’s thought of as an inactive form of travel when nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve straddled a saddle at nearly every port of call on nearly every river cruise I’ve done for the past ten years. ... Read more