TV presenter and former cruise ship entertainer Jane McDonald hosts a travel show in which she embarks on a series of ocean odysseys aboard some of the world's largest and most luxurious cruise ships.
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Best Episodes of Cruising with Jane McDonald
South America, Part 2
S4 Ep4
10.0
29th Jun 2018
In Argentina, Jane visits Puerto Madryn in Patagonia, the largest Welsh settlement outside Wales, and Eva Peron's famous balcony and tomb in Buenos Aires. In Uruguay, she goes shopping in Punta Del Este, the Monte Carlo of South America. She ends her cruise in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, where she visits one of the country's oldest wineries.
Rhone River
S2 Ep3
10.0
15th Sep 2017
Jane takes a river cruise down the Rhone from Lyon to Arles in Provence. She visits a food market, enjoys the glorious scenery, tries wine-tasting and takes a hot air balloon ride.
India Part 2
S5 Ep4
9.0
3rd May 2019
The voyage concludes with the second part of Jane's journey across India, which sees her fully immersed in her cruise on the sacred Ganges river. After visiting the home of the Hare Krishna movement, she is invited to join the masses making the pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mayapur, where she takes in the spectacular shrines and ceremonies. After the cruise reaches its final stop, Jane continues on land to the famous `Pink City' of Jaipur, and then onto the Agra. The curtain falls on her trip of a lifetime with an emotional visit to one of the wonders of the world - the Taj Mahal.
South America, Part 1
S4 Ep3
8.3
22nd Jun 2018
Jane is sailing around South America in style aboard a luxury ship. Starting in Valparaiso, Jane joins a street art tour before beginning her journey south along the Chilean coast. She visits Patagonia and the Falklands before learning how to dance the tango.
New Orleans
S3 Ep4
8.3
2nd Mar 2018
Jane gets a feel for New Orleans before boarding the world's oldest steamboat for a trip along the Mississippi. On board there are sing-along piano bars and a theatre, and excursions include a trip to a former plantation, and the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Australia and New Zealand, Part 2
S4 Ep2
8.3
15th Jun 2018
Jane continues her cruise to the North Island, including a trip to capital city Wellington, quad-biking 900m above sea level, meeting a traditional Maori tribe and a helicopter tour over Auckland, before finally heading back to Australia to climb all 1,438 steps of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Australia and New Zealand, Part 1
S4 Ep1
8.2
8th Jun 2018
Jane finds herself centre stage at the Sydney Opera House, before embarking on a trip that takes her from Australia to New Zealand via Tasmania. Her first glimce of NewZealand is the spectacular Milford Sound, before she stops in Dunedin to experience its Scottish Heritage.
The Caribbean 2
S7 Ep2
8.0
16th May 2021
The singer concludes her journey around the Caribbean, visiting Grand Cayman for a spot of horse-riding along the beach. She then heads to Roatan off the coast of Honduras, discovering the wonders of the deep aboard a submarine, before finishing her trip on the Mexican island of Cozumel, where she parties the night away at the colourful local carnival.
Worst Episodes of Cruising with Jane McDonald
The Danube
S1 Ep3
5.6
24th Feb 2017
On her first ever river cruise, Jane heads to Budapest's Szechenyi Baths, before a visit to the moving World War II memorial, Shoes on the Danube Bank. Then, after a waltz and a wurst, Jane makes her way to her final stop of Passau, Southern Bavaria.
Alaska
S1 Ep4
6.0
3rd Mar 2017
Starting in Vancouver, Jane cruises around Alaska, enjoying a dog sledding adventure on an ice field, visiting the Glacier Bay National Park, meeting the cast of the nightly onboard musicals and taking a cooking lesson from ship's executive chef en route.
Bahamas
S1 Ep1
6.8
10th Feb 2017
Jane heads to Miami where she boards a 4,300 capacity 'mega-cruiser'. She and her fellow passengers stop off in Nassau in the Bahamas before heading to the island of St Martin where she meets a host of sharks.
Treshnish Islands
S1 Ep2
7.0
17th Feb 2017
Joined by just six other passengers on what is easily her smallest ever cruise, Jane enjoys unseasonably good weather as she visits the puffin-packed Treshnish Islands, and Fingal's Cave on Staffa, which inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.
Great Lakes
S6 Ep1
7.0
29th Nov 2019
Jane uncovers a little-known cruise route in the Great Lakes of America and Canada, where she jet-boats across the perilous rapids outside Montreal.
Hampton Court to Henley-on-Thames
S7 Ep3
7.0
23rd May 2021
Jane books a four-berth private luxury river cruiser to travel along the Thames from Hampton Court to Henley-on-Thames to celebrate the 70th birthdays of her good friends Sue and Olwen. At Shepperton Lock, where they meet lock-keeper Steve Newman, who shares his 46 years of knowledge of with Jane, before heading for Windsor.
The Caribbean 1
S7 Ep1
7.3
9th May 2021
The singer returns to embark on more voyages around the world, beginning with the first of two programmes charting a trip to the Caribbean aboard a new luxury liner. The first leg takes her south-east from Fort Lauderdale in Florida toward the private resort of Princess Cays on the island of Eleuthera, and from there she continues along to the Virgin Isles and St Thomas, ending on the island of St Martin.
The Baltic
S2 Ep1
7.4
1st Sep 2017
Jane takes her first Scandi-cruise aboard the Viking Sky, visiting Tallinn, St Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm, and doing everything from meeting cats to becoming the fifth member of ABBA.
Cruising with Jane McDonald Episode Guide
Bahamas
S1 Ep1
6.8
10th Feb 2017
Jane heads to Miami where she boards a 4,300 capacity 'mega-cruiser'. She and her fellow passengers stop off in Nassau in the Bahamas before heading to the island of St Martin where she meets a host of sharks.
Treshnish Islands
S1 Ep2
7.0
17th Feb 2017
Joined by just six other passengers on what is easily her smallest ever cruise, Jane enjoys unseasonably good weather as she visits the puffin-packed Treshnish Islands, and Fingal's Cave on Staffa, which inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.
The Danube
S1 Ep3
5.6
24th Feb 2017
On her first ever river cruise, Jane heads to Budapest's Szechenyi Baths, before a visit to the moving World War II memorial, Shoes on the Danube Bank. Then, after a waltz and a wurst, Jane makes her way to her final stop of Passau, Southern Bavaria.
Alaska
S1 Ep4
6.0
3rd Mar 2017
Starting in Vancouver, Jane cruises around Alaska, enjoying a dog sledding adventure on an ice field, visiting the Glacier Bay National Park, meeting the cast of the nightly onboard musicals and taking a cooking lesson from ship's executive chef en route.
