Bangor ME Maine
USA

30 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

American Cruise Lines (30 Cruises)

American Pioneer

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2 July 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
3 July 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
16 July 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
17 July 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
30 July 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
31 July 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
13 August 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
14 August 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
27 August 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
28 August 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
10 September 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
11 September 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
24 September 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
25 September 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour
8 October 16 days Round-trip from Boston, USA
9 October 14 days Round-trip 15 Night Grand New England Cruise and Land Tour


Frequently Asked Questions

At the riverfront pier, a few minutes' walk from downtown. Only small ships come here: with a hundred passengers at most, you step ashore with no queue and no crush.
By sailing up the river. Ships leave Penobscot Bay and push inland into Maine, between wooded banks where bald eagles are not rare. Few calls begin that way.
Yes. Downtown is a few minutes' walk from the pier and easy to cover: this is a human-scale city.
Downtown with its grand shipowners' and lumber barons' houses, the regional museum, then a walk along the Penobscot. Readers go to see the house of Stephen King, who lives in town.
Because in the nineteenth century billions of logs came down the Penobscot from the northern forests to be sawn here, then shipped to Boston, the West Indies or Europe. It was no boast: the mills ran day and night.
Grand shipowners' and lumber barons' houses, a brick downtown and a stubborn memory of the river drivers. The money ran as fast as the current, and the architecture still shows it.
The US dollar, cards accepted everywhere. Sales tax is added at the register and tipping is expected American-style.
English. Maine does have a long-standing Franco-American community, descended from Quebec and Acadian migration, and a number of family names still carry it.
Yes, for a quiet call: short distances, no crowds, and the run up the river from the deck often makes more of an impression than the visit itself.
June through October, the New England cruise season. The first half of October brings Maine's autumn colour, worth the detour on its own.