10 Best Cruises In The World For Your Bucket List

What are 10 essential and best must-do cruises and cruise destinations in the world? What do I believe are the very best cruising vacations and destinations that should be on your cruising bucket list? Based on my experience of doing 68 cruises around the world (at time of recording), I talk about the 10 very best cruises that I recommend anyone who loves or wants to do cruising should consider. How many have you done? How many of the cruises are on your bucket list and you want to do having watched these 10 best cruises?

Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 60+ cruises.

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[Jan]

1) Carribean cruise, 2) Mediterranean cruise, 3) Alaska cruise, 4) Transatlantic cruise, 5)Norwegian Fijord cruise, 6) Baltic cruise, 7)Panama Canal cruise, 8)Artic cruise, 9)Galapagos cruise, 10) French Polynesian cruise.
I have done 5 of the bucket list cruises.

[cherylkoski]

I've taken several Caribbean cruises, one transatlantic (QM2), the Norwegian Fjords (on day/overnight ferries), and I have a Panama Canal cruise booked for December 2021. I've also cruised the Nile River in Egypt! And I'm a solo traveler!

[debbieann]

We did a cruise around New Zealand. The Fiordland National Park alone is breathtaking. We just stood in awe as we sailed past dozens of waterfalls on both sides of the ship.

[witekzak]

I've been binge-watching you for a couple of days now and I gotta say the amount of value you provide in almost all videos is just insane. Even though I'm just researching one or two particular cruises that I'm willing to do, you really got me excited about this industry and I love the passion in your videos. Thank you man and have a nice next cruise 😊

[michaelmckinley]

The one you missed is cruising around New Zealand. Beautiful and friendly are two over used words but absolutely the right words to use.

[davedecker]

If going to Norway, I would suggest taking Hurtigruten. It is smaller ships (100-600 passengers) and sails during the day as well as night. That way you really get to see the fjords that you won't see on the large cruise lines. It doesn't have all the entertainment that the larger ships do. And it is more relaxing. I think you get a better taste of Norway.

[CADguru]

Pride of America on NCL doing 7 days across the all of the Hawaiian Islands was an awesome experience. Each island is different and you get enough time to explore them all. We rented cars on each island and just ran around to different sights and packed everything we could into discovering what each island had to offer. I've been all over the Caribbean on cruises and this cruise blew all of those away.

[ronjacobs-young]

You make our earth home so inviting. Thank you.🌍🌎🌏

[paulasimson]

We leave on our first cruise in 3 weeks - western Mediterranean on Celebrity Edge. Your YT channel has been invaluable in helping us to make good choices. Already looking forward to booking more!

[pamelabutler]

I have been to French Polynesia twice on the Paul Gaugin. It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. The people are wonderful and it isn't commercialized for the most part (Papeete the capital is a mini city).

[PaulandCaroleLovetoTravel]

Just need to do Alaska, Baltics, transatlantic, Galapagos, two poles, and polynesia....and win the lottery Lol! Another useful video 😁

[Marshal_Dunnik]

One reason to do the Transatlantic aboard the QM2 is that she’s designed for that run with a deeper draft and sharper prow, unlike every other cruise ship, which is pretty much a barge. You’d much rather be on her if you run into heavy weather in the Atlantic, which can still happen, no matter what the season.

[mauricebruet]

There is simply no substitute for cruising Glacier Bay/Icy Strait in Alaska. Even approaching it is to enter an unimaginable world of natural beauty.

[ms.chuckfu]

My transatlantic stopped in Dublin, Belfast, Greenland, Iceland, Halifax and landed in NYC. Great ports plus several at sea days. Perfect combo.

[MrWilhelm]

You didn't mention cruising around the southern tip of South America - from Valparaiso, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina with a stop in the Falkland Islands. A phenomenal experience!

[bushyconn]

You must try Asia or Australasia. They are magnificent!

[narenk]

My first cruise ever was from Alaska, I did what I call my Land and Sea tour, first I enjoyed 9 days on land and then come back to Wittier AK and caught the Royal Princess back to Vancouver BC what an amazing cruise it was warm and sunny for my entire 7 days, spectacular breathtaking.
The Caribbean is now on the top of my to-do cruise destinations. Gr8 Video. 👍🏼

[brentm]

For Alaska - absolutely, 100 per cent, get a balcony cabin - sitting out and watching whales and eagles - and I mean a LOT of eagles - is amazing.

For Arctic/Antarctic (I've been to both twice) - unless you are absolutely set on seeing polar bears, Antarctica is the choice.

I'm a photographer and I went on a photo expedition with some of the best landscape photographers in the world (I'm not one of them - i was assisting).. and standing on the deck at 3am under 24hr daylight, a guy who has been everywhere and shot everything for National Geographic looked at me and said, "you know, this is the closest any of us will ever get to experiencing what it's like to visit another planet", and he was totally right.

The Arctic is great - I've been to the North Shore of Alaska, sailed around Svalbard and been to the Arctic ice pack twice... and it's amazing - but it still looks like earth. Places in the Antarctic... look like nothing else. If I could only ever travel one place, it would be Antarctica.

And the smaller the ship, the better. I have been on cruises of 5000, and cruises of 24. In Antarctica i was on one of 150, and one of 24, and in the Arctica, one of 3500 and one of 120. Smaller is always, ALWAYS better in those places *IF* you want to get off the boat and explore via zodiac.

[mattcolver]

The cruise that really surprised me and I thought was magnificent was South America from Buenos Aires to Santiago. 
Cruising through Beagle Channel and visiting the Falkland islands was interesting.

[cherylkoski]

Bucket list cruises I have taken: Queen Mary 2 transatlantic (New York to Southhampton), as well as Norwegian Fjords. Don't forget about iconic river cruises, like the Nile River!