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Rick Steves' Europe

Rick Steves' Europe

🥉Knowledgeable Creator
195 Cruise Videos on Trip Bacon2,063 Total Videos on YouTube2.1M subscribers

Rick Steves' Europe description on YouTube:

Explore Europe with Rick Steves, best-selling travel author and host of public television's "Rick Steves' Europe" and public radio's "Travel with Rick Steves." www.ricksteves.com Rick Steves advocates smart, affordable, perspective-broadening travel. As host and writer of the popular public television series "Rick Steves' Europe," and best-selling author of over 50 European travel books, he encourages Americans to travel as "temporary locals." He helps American travelers connect much more intimately and authentically with Europe — and Europeans — for a fraction of what mainstream tourists pay.

Catalogue Coverage
Developing read · Rick Steves' Europe

We’ve analysed 195 of 2,100+ videos so far.

Published
195
analysed and live on Trip Bacon
On YouTube
2,063
total catalogue
Catalogue coverage9.5%

Topic and audience patterns reflect this sample. We're still building toward a confident creator-authority read.

Annual Activity
Rick Steves' Europe’s output · year over year

How cruise-focused are they, and how much of it have we analysed?

YearDiscoveredCruise Coverage(cruise-related ÷ discovered)Trip Bacon Coverage(analysed ÷ cruise-related)
  1. 2026
    8
  2. 2025
    51
  3. 2024
    44
  4. 2023
    33
  5. 2022
    35
  6. 2021
    38
  7. 2020
    51
  8. 2019
    162
  9. 2018
    214
  10. 2017
    178
Heat scale
0% → 100%“Discovered” = videos we’ve found for this channel, not necessarily on the site yet.
Showing the most recent 10 years · 9 earlier years not shown.

Top Creator Topics

Ranked by creator sentiment, scored on the Trip Bacon Score.

  1. 1Booking2 video mentions
  2. 2Crew & Service15 video mentions
  3. 3Balcony Cabins5 video mentions
  4. 4Pool Deck4 video mentions
  5. 5Excursions64 video mentions
How to read the Trip Bacon Score
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Who’s this ship for?

How the ship rates with different travel parties.

Best Match
Families (Young Kids)
90%
Loved
Groups
83%
Loved

Videos (195)

Reykjavík, Iceland's Vibrant Capital - Rick Steves' Europe Travel Bite7:25Tips

Reykjavík, Iceland's Vibrant Capital - Rick Steves' Europe Travel Bite

· 18K views · 1 months ago
Highly Positive
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Viking Cruise Lines
Paris of the Parisians Preview0:30Tour

Paris of the Parisians Preview

· 13K views · 7 months ago
Highly Positive
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MSC Cruises USA
Avoiding Lines and Crowds in Europe2:15Tips

Avoiding Lines and Crowds in Europe

· 24K views · 10 months ago
Highly Positive
Avoiding Crowds - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite5:21Tips

Avoiding Crowds - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 58K views · 1 years ago
Highly Positive
Packing Light - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite4:52Tips

Packing Light - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 183K views · 1 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey57:44Tour

Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey

· 91K views · 1 years ago
Highly Positive
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Cunard Line
Cunard Line logo
Queen Victoria
Rick Steves Experiencing Europe56:24Tips

Rick Steves Experiencing Europe

· 99K views · 1 years ago
Highly Positive
Art of the Early Middle Ages25:19Tour

Art of the Early Middle Ages

· 145K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
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Viking Cruise Lines
Castles of England — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide7:31Tips

Castles of England — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

· 46K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
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P & O Cruises
P & O Cruises logo
Britannia
Churches of France — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide10:59Tips

Churches of France — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

· 47K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves Art of Ancient Rome55:17Tips

Rick Steves Art of Ancient Rome

· 618K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
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P & O Cruises
P & O Cruises logo
Britannia
Rick Steves Art of the Middle Ages55:36Tour

Rick Steves Art of the Middle Ages

· 933K views · 2 years ago
Positive
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Viking Cruise Lines
Rick Steves Art of the Modern Age55:36Tour

Rick Steves Art of the Modern Age

· 265K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
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Ponant Explorations
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Holland America Line
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Paul Gauguin
+1 more
Museums of Scandinavia — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide12:24Tips

Museums of Scandinavia — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

· 28K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
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Viking Cruise Lines
Watch with Rick Steves | Europe's Best Crypts and Cemeteries1:16:44Tour

Watch with Rick Steves | Europe's Best Crypts and Cemeteries

· 20K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
European Fine Dining — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide9:39Tips

European Fine Dining — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

· 58K views · 2 years ago
Highly Positive
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P & O Cruises
P & O Cruises logo
Aurora
Canterbury: Religious Hub of Medieval England - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite4:47Tips

Canterbury: Religious Hub of Medieval England - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 68K views · 3 years ago
Positive
Boating in Scandinavia — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide10:18Tips

Boating in Scandinavia — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

· 59K views · 3 years ago
Highly Positive
Churches of England — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide8:58Tips

Churches of England — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

· 93K views · 4 years ago
Highly Positive
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Cunard Line
Cunard Line logo
Queen Elizabeth
Egypt: Cruising the Nile - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite3:29Tips

Egypt: Cruising the Nile - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 207K views · 4 years ago
Highly Positive
Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor26:16Tour

Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor

· 574K views · 5 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday and Today55:03Tour

Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday and Today

· 5.7M views · 5 years ago
Highly Positive
Lyon, France: The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide1:29Tips

Lyon, France: The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide

· 118K views · 5 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves' European Christmas55:59Tour

Rick Steves' European Christmas

· 3.9M views · 5 years ago
Highly Positive
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Norwegian Cruise Line
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Norwegian Spirit