My Favorite Cruises & Cruise Destinations
Need a little inspiration for planning your next trip? What follows is a broad list of some of my favorite cruise experiences.
A couple of my very best trips were with my kids: ‘Awesome’ Alaska: The Great Land Through The Eyes Of A Kid & Mekong River Cruise.
For pure relaxation at sea, you may want to look at SeaDream Yacht Club (you can even sleep outside, under the stars on SeaDream), or if you want a refined, yet relaxed, lifestyle, take a look at Seabourn Cruise Line and Silversea Cruises. All three of these are among the priciest of cruises, but don’t shun them until you fully examine the value equation. These luxury cruises are all-inclusive, so you could spend less in the end by paying more in the beginning.
If these cruise experiences fail to inspire you, write me to Get My Recommendations. And please, let me know your favorite cruise experiences by commenting below.
Bon Voyage, Ralph Grizzle
My Favorite Cruises
- Old Man River: European River Cruises (links to sister site River Cruise Advisor) | Mekong River Cruise
- Small Ship Luxury: Europa | Seabourn Cruise Line | SeaDream Yacht Club | Silversea Cruises
- Large(r) Ship Luxury: Crystal Symphony | Regent Seven Seas Cruises
- Fit For A Queen: Cunard’s Queen Victoria
- Dutch Sisters: Holland American? No, Holland America Line You’re Aboard Eurodam | Nieuw Amsterdam
- For Families & Fun: Carnival Cruise Lines | Disney Cruise Line | Royal Caribbean | Princess Cruises
- Las Vegas At Sea: Norwegian Epic
- Full Of Frills: Oasis of the Seas
- Grass Lawns: Celebrity Eclipse
- For Jack Sparrow Wannabes: Star Flyer
- Great value: Oceania’s Regatta | Why You Should Cruise Azamara Now
- Transatlantic: The Slow Boat to Europe
My Favorite Places
- Alaska: Alluring Alaska | ‘Awesome’ Alaska: The Great Land Through The Eyes Of A Kid | Alaska Cruisetours
- South America:Scintillating South America | Buenos Aires | Santiago
- Baltic Cruises: Avid Cruiser Extended Video
- Beauty on water:Stockholm | St. Petersburg | Venice
- Fairy Tale Kingdoms: Copenhagen
- Majestic Mountains & Fjords: Alaska | Norway
- Anything Goes: Amsterdam
- East Meets West: Berlin
- Middle Ages Mania:Tallinn
- Roses & Ruins:Visby, Sweden
- Adriatic Addiction:Kotor | Dubrovnik
- All Eyes On:Eze
- French Flair:Saint-Malo
- France Without The Jetlag:Montreal, Quebec and Saguenay
- Mekong Memories: Vietnam
- North Atlantic nature: Greenland | Faroe Islands | Iceland
- Two To Tango: Buenos Aires | Santiago
- Favorite Ports of Call: The Avid Cruiser’s Port Profiles
- Two Perfect Days:Berlin | Copenhagen | Hong Kong | Nice, Villefranche & Monaco | San Diego | Seattle | St. Petersburg | Stockholm
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He has made a lifestyle of cruising and typically spends half the year on ships, the other half in cruise destinations — or with his two children in Asheville, North Carolina (they often travel with him.)
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