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Rick Steves' Europe

Rick Steves' Europe

🥉Knowledgeable Creator
194 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 194 of 2,100+ videos so far.

Published
194
analysed and live on Trip Bacon
On YouTube
2,063
total catalogue
Catalogue coverage9.4%

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
Happy Bacon — creators loved this aspect
Sad Bacon — creators took issue with this
Meh — no strong opinion either way

Scale: 0–5 strips in half-step increments. 0 = “meh”, 5 = “bacon bliss”. Aggregated from creator-review sentiment, weighted by channel expertise.

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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 (194)

Summiting the Greek Island of Delos1:27Vlog

Summiting the Greek Island of Delos

· 9K views · 8 years ago
Highly Positive
Let's Be Cruise Partners!1:57Vlog

Let's Be Cruise Partners!

· 9K views · 8 years ago
Highly Positive
Germany's Dresden and Leipzig25:01Tips

Germany's Dresden and Leipzig

· 1.7M views · 8 years ago
Highly Positive
Germany’s Black Forest: The Tourist Trap and the Bliss3:48

Germany’s Black Forest: The Tourist Trap and the Bliss

· 359K views · 8 years ago
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Europe's Largest Port - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite1:28Tips

Rotterdam, Netherlands: Europe's Largest Port - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 38K views · 8 years ago
Highly Positive
Holland America Line logo
Holland America Line
Holland America Line logo
Rotterdam
Looking Around in Lively Lisbon2:19Vlog

Looking Around in Lively Lisbon

· 18K views · 9 years ago
Highly Positive
Cruising to a Carthaginian Stronghold in Sicily2:14Tour

Cruising to a Carthaginian Stronghold in Sicily

· 6K views · 9 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves' European Easter: Mardi Gras in Europe2:19Tour

Rick Steves' European Easter: Mardi Gras in Europe

· 11K views · 9 years ago
Positive
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Mardi Gras
Rick Steves' European Easter: Carnival in Venice2:11Tour

Rick Steves' European Easter: Carnival in Venice

· 31K views · 9 years ago
Highly Positive
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Carnival Celebration
Brighton, England: Royal Pavilion and Pier - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite3:19Tips

Brighton, England: Royal Pavilion and Pier - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 73K views · 9 years ago
Highly Positive
Cunard Line logo
Cunard Line
Cunard Line logo
Queen Victoria
Dover, England: Historic Castle and White Cliffs - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite3:37Tips

Dover, England: Historic Castle and White Cliffs - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 242K views · 9 years ago
Highly Positive
P & O Cruises logo
P & O Cruises
P & O Cruises logo
Britannia
Rick Steves' European Easter56:16Tips

Rick Steves' European Easter

· 1.2M views · 10 years ago
Highly Positive
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Mardi Gras
Carnival Cruise Line logo
Carnival Celebration
Kuşadası, Turkey: Cruises and Cuisine - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite3:23Tips

Kuşadası, Turkey: Cruises and Cuisine - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 52K views · 10 years ago
Highly Positive
Amboise, France: Elegant Dinner in the Loire - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite2:37Tips

Amboise, France: Elegant Dinner in the Loire - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 37K views · 10 years ago
Highly Positive
P & O Cruises logo
P & O Cruises
P & O Cruises logo
Aurora
ricksteves6058:36Vlog

ricksteves60

· 4K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
The Netherlands: Beyond Amsterdam25:03Tour

The Netherlands: Beyond Amsterdam

· 10.2M views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Holland America Line logo
Holland America Line
Holland America Line logo
Rotterdam
France’s Loire: Château Country25:04Tour

France’s Loire: Château Country

· 1.9M views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
P & O Cruises logo
P & O Cruises
P & O Cruises logo
Aurora
Western Turkey25:04Tips

Western Turkey

· 1.9M views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Antalya, Turkey: Relaxing Gulet Cruise - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite3:10Tips

Antalya, Turkey: Relaxing Gulet Cruise - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

· 34K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Why I Love Europe: Remote5:54Vlog

Why I Love Europe: Remote

· 14K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves' Europe Preview: Berlin0:30Tips

Rick Steves' Europe Preview: Berlin

· 11K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Rick Steves' Europe Preview: The Netherlands0:30Tips

Rick Steves' Europe Preview: The Netherlands

· 15K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Holland America Line logo
Holland America Line
Holland America Line logo
Rotterdam
Rick Steves' Europe Preview: Western Turkey0:30Tour

Rick Steves' Europe Preview: Western Turkey

· 8K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive
Historic and Heroic Gdańsk, on the North Coast of Poland1:42Tour

Historic and Heroic Gdańsk, on the North Coast of Poland

· 14K views · 11 years ago
Highly Positive