Special-interest cruise directory: as part of our annual Directory Issue, Cruise Travel is pleased to present this exclusive guide listing companies offering cruises of special interest - Directory

Cruise Travel, Jan-Feb, 2003

Scores of companies worldwide offer offbeat cruise experiences--everything from a European river voyage to an Antarctic expedition, from backwater jungle explorations to luxury yacht sailing. As part of our annual Directory Issue, Cruise Travel has detailed these offerings in the following guide to cruises of special interest.

Company names, arranged alphabetically, are followed by addresses and types of cruises offered. For more information, write the company directly for brochures, schedules, and rates, or contact your travel agent.

ABERCROMBIE & KENT INTERNATIONAL
  1520 Kensington Road
  Oak Brook, IL 60523
A wide variety of both inland and ocean
  cruises worldwide, plus Explorer
  expedition voyages, including Antarctica;
  riverboat and barge cruises in Asia,
  Europe; Nile, Yangtze, Ayeyarwady river
  cruises; Galapagos Islands cruises;
  Sea Cloud tall-ship sailings.

AMERICAN SAFARI CRUISES
  19101 36th Avenue West/Suite 201
  Lynnwood, WA 98036
Luxury motor-yacht cruising to Alaska,
  California Wine Country, Sea of Cortez,
  Costa Rica.

ANNEMARIE VICTORY ORGANIZATION
  136 East 64th Street
  New York, NY 10021
Sea Cloud, Sea Cloud II tall-ship charters
  on cultural cruises to Mediterranean,
  Caribbean, and trans-Atlantic; River Cloud,
  River Cloud II cultural European cruises.

BAJA EXPEDITIONS
  2625 Garnet Avenue
  San Diego, CA 92109
Sea of Cortez wildlife and nature cruise-tours.

(THE) BARGE LADY
  101 West Grand Avenue/Suite 200
  Chicago, IL 60610
France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland,
  Germany, Belgium barge cruises.

BC FERRIES
  1112 Fort Street
  Victoria, BC V8V 4V2 Canada
British Columbia coastal cruises.

CLASSICAL CRUISES
  132 East 70th Street
  New York, NY 10021
Distinctive small-ship voyages to Europe,
  Middle East, Indian Ocean, Central America.

CLUB MED
  75 Valencia Avenue
  Coral Gables, FL 33134
Club Med 2 sail-cruiser voyages to the
  Mediterranean and Caribbean.

COMPAGNIE POLYNESIENNE
DE TRANSORT MARITIME
  2028 El Camino Real South/Suite B
  San Mateo, CA 94403
Freighter cruises among the islands of
  French Polynesia aboard the Aranui II.

FAR & WIDE TRAVEL CORPORATION
  80 Southwest 8th Street/Suite 2601
  Miami, FL 33130
Adventure-, expedition-, and cultural-oriented
  cruises worldwide, including Antarctica,
  Galapagos Islands, Europe, Australasia;
  Nile, Yangtze rivers.

FREIGHTER WORLD CRUISES
  180 South Lake Avenue/Suite 335
  Pasadena, CA 91101
General sales agent representing passenger-
  carrying freighter lines and special-interest
  cruise companies worldwide.

FRENCH COUNTRY WATERWAYS
  Post Office Box 2195
  Duxbury, MA 02331
Luxury canal cruises in France.

GREAT LAKES CRUISE COMPANY
  3300 Washtenaw Avenue/Suite 230
  Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Le Levant and Georgian Clipper
  Great Lakes cruises.

HERITAGE CRUISE LINES LTD.
  84 Sunnidale Road
  Barrie, ON L4N 1G9 Canada
Georgian Bay/Lake Huron cruises on the
  Georgian Clipper.

KD RIVER CRUISES OF EUROPE
  2500 Westchester Avenue
  Purchase, NY 10577
European river cruises.

MAINE WINDJAMMER ASSOCIATION
  Post Office Box 317
  Augusta, ME 04332
Maine coastal tall-ship cruises.

MARIS USA LTD.
  215 Main Street
  Westport, CT 06880
Freighter-passenger cruises and
  special-interest voyages worldwide.

MAUPINTOUR
  10650 West Charleston Boulevard
  Summerlin, NV 89135
Inland and ocean cruise-tours including Nile,
  Yangtze rivers, Galapagos Islands, Alaska,
  New England/Canada, Europe.

METROPOLITAN TOURING/ADVENTURE ASSOC.
  13150 Colt Road/Suite 110
  Dallas, TX 75240
Galapagos Islands cruises.

NATIONAL TRUST
FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
  1785 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest
  Washington, DC 20036
Study cruise-tours on various vessels to
  New Zealand, European seas and rivers,
  Central & South America, Caribbean,
  Galapagos Islands, Great Lakes, U.S.
  Coastal and Inland waterways.

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
EXPEDITIONS
  11100 Wildlife Center Drive
  Reston, VA 20190
Wildlife-oriented cruise-tours to Bahamas,
  Mexico, Central & South America, Amazon
  River, Galapagos Islands, Patagonia,
  South Pacific, Indonesia.

NATURAL HABITAT ADVENTURES
  2945 Center Green Court
  Boulder, CO 80301
Unique travel expeditions worldwide,
  including Galapagos Islands, Central
  America, Baja California, Arctic and
  Antarctic cruising.

NEKTON DIVING CRUISES
  520 Southeast 32nd Street
  Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
Bahamas, Belize dive cruises.

OCEANIC SOCIETY EXPEDITIONS
  Fort Mason Center/Building E
  San Francisco, CA 94123
Natural history, scuba, research expedition
  cruises worldwide.

ONTARIO WATERWAYS CRUISES INC.
  Box 6
  Orillia, ON L3V 6H9 Canada
Rideau Canal/Trent Severn Waterway cruises.

PACIFIC DELIGHT TOURS
  205 East 42nd Street
  New York, NY 10017
Yangtze River cruise-tours.

PETER DEILMANN CRUISES
  1800 Diagonal Road/Suite 170
  Alexandria, VA 22314
European river cruises; Deutschland ocean
 cruises worldwide.

REGAL CHINA CRUISES
  37 West 38th Street
  New York, NY 10018
Yangtze River cruises.

SAGA INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS LTD.
  1161 Boylston Street
  Boston, MA 02115
Cruise-tours worldwide for travelers
  over 50 years old, many on the
  Saga Rose and Saga Pearl.

ST. LAWRENCE CRUISE LINES
  253 Ontario Street
  Kingston, ON K7L 2Z4 Canada
Canadian Empress St. Lawrence and
  Ottawa river cruises.

SEA CLOUD CRUISES INC.
  32-40 North Dean Street
  Englewood, NJ 07631
River Cloud and River Cloud II European
  river cruises; Sea Cloud and Sea Cloud II
  tall-ship cruises worldwide.

SEMESTER AT SEA
  Institute for Shipboard Education
  811 William Pitt Union
  University of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Worldwide Universe Explorer cruises with
  onboard accredited academic programs.

SMITHSONIAN STUDY TOURS
  1100 Jefferson Drive, Southwest
  Washington, DC 20560
Study voyages in the Americas aboard the
  Sea Bird, Orlova, Song of Flower, Sea
  Cloud II.

SOCIETY EXPEDITIONS
  2001 Western Avenue/Suite 300
  Seattle, WA 98121
Expedition voyages on the new
  World Discoverer to Antarctic, Arctic,
  Russian Far East, Alaska, South Pacific,
  Papua New Guinea.

SWAN HELLENIC
  631 Commack Road/Suite 1A
  Commack, NY 11725
Culturally oriented Minerva I & II cruises
  throughout Europe, Central & South
  America, Caribbean, East Coast/Canada.

THE WORLD OF RESIDEN SEA
  5200 Blue Lagoon Drive/Suite 790
  Miami, FL 33126
Condo/apartment cruises on The World.

UNCOMMON JOURNEYS
  3075 Citrus Circle/Suite 220
  Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Unusual cruises and cruise-tours worldwide.

UNIWORLD
  17323 Ventura Boulevard
  Los Angeles, CA 91316
European, Russian, Chinese river cruises.

VANTAGE DELUXE WORLD TRAVEL
  90 Canal Street
  Boston, MA 02114
Escorted cruise-tours for mature travelers on
  ocean and inland waters in Europe, South
  Pacific, South America, Panama Canal,
  Trans-Atlantic, Caribbean, Mexico, Alaska.

VICTORIA CRUISES INC.
  57-08 39th Avenue
  Woodside, NY 11377
Yangtze River cruises.

VIKING RIVER CRUISES
  21820 Burbank Boulevard
  Woodland Hills, CA 91367
European, Russian river cruises.

WILDLAND ADVENTURES
  3516 Northeast 155th Street
  Seattle, WA 98155
Patagonia cruise-tours on the Mare Australis.

ZEGRAHM EXPEDITIONS
  192 Nickerson Street/Number 200
  Seattle, WA 98109
Expedition-style cruise-tours worldwide,
  including Indian Ocean, Antarctica, Asia,
  Russian Far East, Europe, South Pacific,
  Galapagos Islands, Panama Canal,
  Central America, Newfoundland.