American Cruise Lines News Coverage

From Exploring Egypt’s ancient temples to spotting pink river dolphins leaping across the Amazon, here are 15 of the world’s best river cruises for 2025.

#5 The Mississippi: American Cruise Lines

Travel Guru and Culture Vulture, Michelle Newman, talks to NBC host Shelly Miles about her most recent cruise adventure from Memphis to New Orleans.

Readers favored river cruise lines that offer the chance to see a destination from a new point of view in (Travel + Leisure’s) annual “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2025.

Going into my first U.S. river cruise, I was a little nervous I wasn’t going to like it. Most of my river cruising experience has been in Europe, where the towns are impossibly old and there are castles and beautiful archetecture everywhere you look. I figured a U.S. river cruise would be… fine. Maybe a little slower. Maybe not quite as charming.

But after a week on the American Jazz, sailing from Clarkston to Stevenson, Washington, with stops in Astoria, Pendleton, Mt. St. Helens and a bunch of towns you’ve probably never heard of, I can tell you – I was wrong in the best way. It was beautiful and fun and easy, and it surprised me at almost every turn.

American Cruise Lines’ new coastal catamarans really do give us “small-ship cruising done perfectly.”

Strongly convinced that travel brings history to life, I boarded American Cruise Lines’ new coastal cat, American Glory. I selected the Cape Codder itinerary, conjuring the adventures of the Pilgrims.

American Cruise Lines (ACL) bills itself as America’s largest cruise line with the newest fleet in the U.S. It’s a claim made with good reason: Over the past few years, the Guilford, Conn.-based company has expanded at a rapid pace, adding new ships and new destinations.