Around $2,200 for an 8-day, all-inclusive vacation? Why small-ship cruising might be the move.
- Small ship ocean cruising is riding a wave of U.S. travelers ready to get back out on the high seas on lower-capacity ships.
- Large-scale ocean cruising’s newer pricing structures feel like “nickel and diming,” said one passenger.
- “Our goal is presenting an adventure experience where you get off the ship, not just continually cruise,” said UnCruise Adventures’s Capt. Dan Blanchard.
Dan and Jennie Sullivan are avid cruisers who honeymooned on a massive Caribbean ocean liner. But now that the Methuen, Massachusetts, the couple is pregnant with their first child – and social distancing is a not-so-distant memory – they’re thinking twice about crowds, and taking a second look at smaller vessels.