NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Portugal
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/2019
Jane heads to Portugal for a luxury trip down the river Douro. In Porto, she discovers the roots of a similarly named fortified wine before boarding the stunning ship and setting sail down the Douro. The cruise takes her to the architectural wonder of Lamego, Vila Real and the homes of Mateus Rose. She even manages a trip to Spain to visit Salamanca.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - The Balkans
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 12/13/2019
Starting in photogenic Budapest, Jane rides a sumptuous steam train built at the peak of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, boards a luxury river ship to the blossoming post-communist cities of Bratislava and Belgrade, and visits Dracula's castle.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Hampton Court to Henley-on-Thames
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/2021
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.
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6.2/107 votesLoading...#4 - Mediterranean Riviera
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 12/6/2019
Jane enjoys new adventures in the Mediterranean, taking in a vintage car tour of Rome, the £8k-per-night hotels of Monaco, and the tapas of Barcelona's world-famous La Boqueria food market.
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6.4/1013 votesLoading...#5 - The Danube
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/2017
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.
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6.5/1013 votesLoading...#6 - West Mediterranean
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/2017
Jane stops off at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, catches the Tour de France in Marseilles and hits the Italian Riviera in Genoa.
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6.5/1012 votesLoading...#7 - New Orleans
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/2018
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.
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6.6/1011 votesLoading...#8 - Great Lakes
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 11/29/2019
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.
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6.8/1011 votesLoading...#9 - Mekong
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2018
Starting off in Ho Chi Minh City, Jane samples the sights, sounds and sumptuous cuisine of Vietnam, before setting sail up the Mekong to Cambodia where she visits a floating market before ending up at Ankor Wat, one of the oldest religious monuments on Earth.
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6.9/109 votesLoading...#10 - Bahamas
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/10/2017
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.
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6.9/109 votesLoading...#11 - California
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2018
Jane heads to the Golden State, boarding a 3,000 berth cruise liner in Los Angeles which plots a course for San Francisco. On board, she meets former Dallas star Linda Gray, attends a wedding, and has an all-over massage in which her body is coated in chocolate.
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7.0/108 votesLoading...#12 - India Part 1
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/26/2019
In Kolkata, Jane visits the colourful chaos amid the largest flower market in Asia before setting sail on the Ganges River. Stop-offs include the temple of Kalna, and Murshidabad where she explores the grand palaces of the city and discovers a religion close to her heart, before going off the beaten track to see some local artisans at work.
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7.0/108 votesLoading...#13 - India Part 2
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 5/3/2019
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.
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7.2/1013 votesLoading...#14 - Cuba
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2017
Starting and finishing in Havana, Jane takes a trip round Cuba where she falls for the people, the buildings, the music and the 50s cars. She has lunch on the floating Rasta Raft, and enjoys a salsa session before gate-crashing a house party where she discovers no-one parties like Cubans party!
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7.2/1015 votesLoading...#15 - Iceland
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2018
From Reykjavik, Jane boards the former ferry Ocean Diamond for a voyage around Iceland's rugged shorelines. Highlights include hot geysers, the aurora borealis, whale watching, a dip in a lagoon, a visit to a puffin rescue centre and joining in a rettir (rounding up sheep from the mountains).
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7.3/1020 votesLoading...#16 - The Baltic
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/2017
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.
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7.4/1011 votesLoading...#17 - Rhone River
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/2017
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.
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7.4/1010 votesLoading...#18 - Australia and New Zealand, Part 2
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/15/2018
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.
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7.5/1010 votesLoading...#19 - Alaska
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2017
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.
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7.7/1012 votesLoading...#20 - Greece
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/2019
Jane heads off to uncover the mysteries of the Mediterranean on an island-hopping tour of Greece, including a segway through Athens, champagne in Mykonos, and the stunning sunsets of Santorini.
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7.8/1013 votesLoading...#21 - Treshnish Islands
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/17/2017
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.
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7.8/1010 votesLoading...#22 - South America, Part 2
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/29/2018
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.
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#23 - The Adriatic Sea
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 12/20/2019
In her final adventure of the current run, Jane cruises the Adriatic from historic Dubrovnik, via Venice, to the spectacular Roman city of Split and the beautiful bay of Boka.
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7.9/1010 votesLoading...#24 - Australia and New Zealand, Part 1
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/8/2018
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.
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8.0/1010 votesLoading...#25 - South America, Part 1
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/22/2018
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.
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The Worst Episodes of Cruising with Jane McDonald
Every episode of Cruising with Jane McDonald ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Cruising with Jane McDonald!
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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Channel 5
Worst Episodes Summary
"Portugal" is the worst rated episode of "Cruising with Jane McDonald". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/19/2019. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Balkans".