Imagine spending a week on a friend’s private luxury yacht. Unlike the crowded cruise ships left in your wake, you are one of fewer than 300 guests on board. Your yacht is anchored in hidden harbors, docked in tiny ports, and in the heart of charming cities. While others wait for tenders in tedious lines, you swim and kayak off your own Watersports Platform. You step ashore into the center of amazing city scenes to explore the secret charms of places larger ships simply cannot reach. This is yacht-style cruising with Windstar Cruises.




Small Ports Large Ships Can’t Reach
Step away from the crowds. See more while enjoying intimate cultural experiences, and connect with parts of the world that larger ships cannot reach. Here are just a few of our favorite small ports that will give you life-changing, unforgettable moments. Sail to remote Caribbean island; ease through a narrow causeway, anchoring beside the picturesque Byzantine castle-city largely hidden from mainland Greece by a massive plateau; or, visit the smaller island of Gozo in Malta, joining a 4x4 safari to seek out hidden corners including the Xewkija Dome.




Destination Discovery Events
Windstar Cruises’ itineraries feature a memorable Destination Discovery Event. These complimentary events have been carefully crafted to give you an in-depth and authentic local experience to enhance their voyage even more. Destination Discovery Events include activities such as an after-hours tour and dinner under the stars in the magnificent Celsus Library of Ephesus, a fun-filled island experience on a private beach, or a private concert in the photogenic Blue Church in Seydisfjordur.