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9780762709816

100 Best Cruise Vacations, 2nd; The Top Cruises throughout the World for All Interests and Budgets

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  • ISBN13:

    9780762709816

  • ISBN10:

    0762709812

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot
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Summary

Cruise travel expert Scull leads the way to the best, not the most expensive, cruises all over the world. Stately transatlantic crossings, clipper ships gliding among Mediterranean islands, riverboats on the Yangtze--whatever on-the-water experience readers are looking for, it's in this authoritative guide. 300 photos.

Author Biography

Theodore W. Scull is a New York-based travel writer and lecturer specializing in maritime subjects. He has personally taken about 150 cruises all over the world. He writes cruise ship reviews for Fodor's Worldwide Cruises and Ports of Call, Macmillan'sUnofficial Guide to Cruises, and Frommer's Caribbean Cruises and Ports of Call and has authored five books.

Table of Contents

Introduction xii
NORTH AMERICA
East Coast - United States and Canada
Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth 2-A Canada and New England Getaway
2(2)
Regal Cruises' Regal Empress-New England and Canada on a Budget
4(2)
Prince Cruises' Scotia Prince-An Overnight Ferry Cruise: Maine to Nova Scotia
6(3)
West Coast - Alaska and Canada
Holland America Line's Ryndam and Statendam-Alaska's Glacier Discovery Cruises and Alaska/Yukon Land Tours
9(3)
Princess Cruises' Sea Princess, Dawn Princess, Ocean Princess, and Sun Princess-Big-Ship Cruising and Touring the Inside Passage, Gulf of Alaska, and National Parks
12(2)
Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Sky-Freestyle Cruising from Seattle to Alaska
14(2)
Radisson Seven Seas Cruises' Seven Seas Navigator-Inside Passage from Vancouver to Alaska
16(3)
Cruise West's Spirit of Endeavour-Small-Ship Cruising Alaska's Inside Passage
19(2)
Alaska's Glacier Bay Tours & Cruises' Wilderness Adventurer-Alaskan Wilderness Cruise
21(2)
Alaska Marine Highway's Columbia, Matanuska, Taku, and Kennicott-The Inside Passage: On Your Own
23(3)
BC Ferries' Queen of the North and Queen of Prince Rupert-The Canadian Inside Passage and Queen Charlotte Islands
26(2)
U.S. and Canadian Coastal Rivers and Canals
American Canadian Caribbean Line's Grande Caribe-Erie Canal, St. Lawrence Seaway, and Saguenay River
28(2)
Mid-Lakes Navigation's Emita II-Cruising the Canals of New York State
30(2)
Clipper Cruise Line's Nantucket Clipper-New England Islands to Chesapeake Bay
32(2)
American Canadian Caribbean Line's Grande Mariner-East Coast Inside Passage: New England to Florida
34(3)
Delta Queen Steamboat's Delta Queen-Upper Mississippi River: St. Louis to St. Paul
37(2)
American Canadian Caribbean Line's Niagara Prince-An Intricate Maze of Waterways: Chicago to New Orleans
39(2)
Delta Queen Steamboat's American Queen-Cruising the Ohio River
41(2)
Delta Queen Steamboat's Mississippi Queen-The Antebellum South
43(2)
RiverBarge's Excursion Lines' River Explorer-Louisiana Bayou Cajun and Creole Cruising
45(2)
Clipper Cruise Line's Yorktown Clipper-Exploring California by River
47(2)
Lindblad Expedition's Sea Lion-Columbia and Snake Rivers in the Wake of Lewis & Clark
49(2)
Delta Queen Steamboat's Columbia Queen-Riverboat Cruise Deep into the Pacific Northwest
51(2)
St. Lawrence Cruise Lines' Canadian Empress-Steamboating the St. Lawrence River
53(3)
Ontario Waterway Cruises' Kawartha Voyageur-Exploring the Trent-Severn Waterway
56(4)
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Bermuda
Celebrity Cruises' Zenith-Bermuda Cruising
60(2)
Princess Cruises' Pacific Princess-Three Bermuda Ports Aboard the Love Boat
62(2)
Transatlantic Crossings
Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth 2- The Ultimate Crossing: New York to England
64(2)
Cunard Line's Caronia-Florida to England via the Southern Route
66(2)
Star Clippers' Royal Clipper-Mediterranean to the Caribbean under Sail
68(4)
THE BAHAMAS AND CARIBBEAN ISLANDS
The Bahamas
Disney Cruise Line's Disney Wonder-Bahamas Cruising for All Ages
72(2)
Caribbean Islands
Princess Cruises' Grand Princess-Eastern Caribbean Megaship Cruising
74(2)
Carnival Cruise Lines' Carnival Victory-Eastern and Western Caribbean Megaship Cruising
76(2)
Carnival Cruise Lines' Paradise-Smoke-Free Caribbean Cruising
78(2)
Celebrity Cruises' Galaxy and Mercury-Stylish and Affordable Caribbean Cruising
80(2)
Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas-The Western Caribbean's Largest Cruise Ship
82(2)
Sea Cloud Cruises' Sea Cloud-Eastern Caribbean Island Hopping under Sail
84(3)
Windstar Cruises' Wind Spirit-Motorsailing the Eastern Caribbean
87(2)
Star Clippers' Star Clipper-Caribbean Cruising under Sail
89(2)
Windjammer Barefoot Cruises' Legacy-Eastern Caribbean Sailing Fancy-Free
91(2)
Valtur Tourism's Valtur Prima-Cruise to Cuba and the Western Caribbean
93(3)
LATIN AMERICA
Central America
Voyager Cruise Line's Wilderness Adventurer-Small-Ship Adventure Cruising on the Sea of Cortez
96(2)
Royal Caribbean's Vision of the Seas-Megaship Mexican Riviera
98(2)
Cruises West's Temptress Explorer-Costa Rica's Pacific Coast
100(2)
Panama Canal
Crystal Cruises' Crystal Harmony-The Panama Canal and Caribbean
102(2)
Holland America Line's Veendam-The Panama Canal and More
104(3)
South America
Abercrombie & Kent's Explorer-Exploring the Upper and Lower Amazon
107(3)
Amazon Tours & Cruises' Arca and Rio Amazonas-Upper Amazon Expedition-Style Cruising
110(2)
Royal Olympia Cruises' Olympia Voyager-Cruising the Lower Amazon and Caribbean
112(3)
Canodros' Galapagos Explorer II-The Galapagos Archipelago
115(2)
Lindblad Expeditions' Polaris-The Galapagos Islands
117(2)
Seabourn Cruise Line's Seabourn Pride-Down South America Way
119(2)
Orient Lines' Marco Polo-Passages from the East to West Coast of South America
121(3)
Silversea Cruises' Silver Wind-Around the Bottom of South America
124(2)
Cruceros Australis' Terra Australis-Cruising the Chilean Fjords
126(4)
PACIFIC OCEAN
Australia and New Zealand
Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas-Sailing to Down Under
130(3)
Captain Cook Cruises' Reef Endeavour-Australia's Great Barrier Reef
133(3)
Kangaroo Explorer Cruises' Kangaroo Explorer-Catamaran Coastal Cruising in Far North Queensland
136(2)
Silverseas Cruises' Silver Cloud-Australia and New Zealand
138(2)
Orient Lines' Crown Odyssey-Circumnavigating New Zealand's North and South Islands
140(3)
Hawaiian Islands
American Hawaii Cruises' SS Independence-Classic U.S. Flag Cruising in Hawaii
143(3)
Holland America Line's Statendam-Southern California to Hawaii
146(3)
South Pacific
Renaissance Cruises' R3 and R4-Linger Longer in French Polynesia
149(3)
Radisson Seven Seas Cruises' Paul Gauguin-Cruising in Paradise
152(4)
EUROPE
Northern Europe
Crystal Cruises' Crystal Symphony-Northern European Capital Cities
156(2)
Hebridean Island Cruises' Hebridean Princess-Scotland's Western Isles
158(2)
P&O Scottish Ferries' St. Sunniva-To the Isles North of Scotland
160(2)
Norwegian Coastal Voyage's Nordkapp-Norwegian Coastal Voyage
162(2)
DFDS Seaways' Crown of Scandinavia-Ferry Cruising between Copenhagen and Oslo
164(2)
Silja Line's Silja Serenade and Silja Symphony-Cruise Ferries in the Baltics
166(2)
Swan Hellenic's Minerva-Iberian Culture Cruise: British Style
168(2)
Radisson Seven Seas Cruises' Radisson Diamond-Port Hopping across Europe
170(2)
Peter Deilmann's Deutschland-A National Flagship in the European Tradition
172(2)
European Rivers and Canals
Peter Deilmann's Prussian Princess-Cruising the Rhine and Moselle
174(2)
KD River Cruises' Viking Heine-Danube River Cruising
176(2)
Abercrombie & Kent's L'Abercrombie-Barge Canal Cruising in France
178(2)
Mediterranean Sea
Princess Cruises' Golden Princess-Western and Eastern Mediterranean Megaship Cruising
180(2)
Renaissance Cruises' R Class-Western Mediterranean
182(2)
Star Clippers' Star Clipper-French and Italian Rivieras under Sail
184(2)
Cunard Line's Caronia-Mediterranean Mosaic
186(2)
Orient Lines' Crown Odyssey- The Greek Isles and Italy: From Istanbul to Rome
188(2)
Renaissance Cruises' R Class-Eastern Mediterranean: Year-Round
190(2)
Royal Olympia Cruises' Olympia Voyager-Three Continents in One Week
192(2)
Windstar Cruises' Wind Spirit-Greek Islands and Coastal Turkey
194(2)
Swan Hellenic's Minerva-Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea
196(4)
AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
Africa
St. Helena's ROM St. Helena-Into the Remote South Atlantic via Mail Ship
200(2)
Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth 2-An Ocean Liner Voyage: England to South Africa
202(2)
Silversea Cruises' Silver Wind-East and South Africa Sea Safari
204(2)
The Middle East
Lindblad Expeditions' Hapi I-Egypt's Nile Valley
206(2)
Maupintour's Flotel Nile Cruises' Nile Romance-Egypt and Nile River Cruise
208(2)
The Indian Ocean
Orient Lines' Crown Odyssey-Passage to India
210(4)
SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE FAR EAST
Southeast Asia
Star Clippers' Star Flyer-Thailand and Malaysia: Gems of the Andaman Sea
214(2)
Radisson Seven Sea's Song of Flower-Vietnam's Coastal Cities
216(3)
Seabourn Cruise Line's Seabourn Spirit-Coastal Vietnam Sojourn
219(2)
The Far East
Victoria Cruises' Victoria I-Cruising the Yangtze
221(2)
Regal China Cruises' Princess Elaine-Yangtze River: The Gorges and Much More
223(3)
POLAR REGIONS
Arctic
Clipper Cruise Line's Clipper Adventurer-Greenland and the Canadian Arctic
226(2)
Antarctic
Radisson Seven Seas Cruises' Hanseatic-Cruising to Antarctica
228(2)
Clipper Cruise Line's Clipper Adventurer-Cruising the White Continent
230(2)
Lindblad Expeditions' Endeavour-Antarctica, Falklands, and South Georgia
232(4)
CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS
Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth 2-Around the World in 106 Days
236(2)
Holland America Line's Rotterdam and Amsterdam-Circumnavigating the Globe
238(3)
P&O Cruises' Oriana-Sailing around the World: British Style
241(2)
APPENDIX
Ships By Size
Small Ships
243(1)
Midsize Ships
243(1)
Large Ships
243(1)
Types of Cruises
Expedition-style Cruises
244(1)
Cultural Enrichment Cruises
244(1)
Cruising under Sail
244(1)
Super Luxury
244(1)
Cruising with Children
245(1)
Honeymooners and Romantics
245(1)
Cruising with Foreigners
245(1)
Cities at Sea
246(1)
No Mal de Mer
246(1)
Index 247(8)
About the Author 255

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