American Cruise Lines News Coverage
American Cruise Lines is regularly covered in well-known national newspapers, travel magazines, and respected travel industry publications, and is often featured on local and national television. Please see below to read a selection of press coverage on American’s cruises, itineraries, awards, and new ships. American Cruise Lines explores more U.S. destinations than any other cruise company and is proud to be America’s #1 river and small ship cruise line.
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More Time to Travel
Solo Cruising the Mississippi River on American Cruise Lines
Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch provides an insider’s look at a Mississippi River cruise from Memphis to Nashville in a solo stateroom aboard American Splendor, one of American Cruise Line’s paddlewheel river ships.
When I was a teen, my Grandma Georgie rode a Greyhound Bus from Ohio to California. People worried. What is a single woman doing taking such a long trip all by herself, for goodness’ sake?
The Best of Times
American Cruise Lines: Extraordinary Adventures Both On and Off the Ship
So yes, I’d heard about Lewis and Clark (that would be Merriweather Lewis and William Clark). And I vaguely knew that Thomas Jefferson had dispatched them to explore the Louisiana Purchase that he had just acquired from France in 1803. But not until I had taken an American Cruise Lines expedition of our own to the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest id I grasp the awe and reverence with which they viewed their historic discovery.
Condé Nast Traveler
The Best Cruise Lines in the World: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards 2025
American Cruise Lines is a 2025 winner in both the best Small Ships and River Ships categories.
Travel + Leisure
This Cruise Line is Launching the Very First All-U.S. Sailing on the Great Lakes
Small ship cruise company American Cruise Lines will launch the first all-domestic Great Lakes sailings next year, celebrating America's small towns and lake cities in time for next summer.
The three new itineraries, which run from May through August 2026 on the cruise line's newest ship, will sail across Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron, all without crossing into Canada. The 9- and 14-day cruises explore cities like Syracuse, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and mark the first Great Lakes cruises for the company.
The Sacramento Bee
Travel Trending with Kathy Witt: American Cruise Lines captures the magic of Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands
Set on a rocky outcrop overlooking the chilly waters of the Salish Sea, the lighthouse at Lime Kiln State Park in Friday Harbor in Washington's picturesque San Juan Islands casts a spell. Not surprising since scenes from 1998's "Practical Magic" were filmed in Friday Harbor, but primarily because it is home to several enchanting sights on American Cruise Lines' (ACL) nine-day Puget Sound & San Juan Islands cruise itinerary.
AARP
AARP Smart Guide to River Cruises
These 27 tips will make your next river cruise a once-in-a-lifetime trip.
While ocean cruises are well established, river cruising has blossomed only in the last 25 years or so. River cruises are very different from those that sail on the ocean. They’re more intimate and operate at a more leisurely pace.