IF YOU’RE TRAVELLING ALONE: Cruise & Maritime

Countries visited: 25 Ports visited: 42 Islands visited: 8 Nights in port: 1

If you’re going solo, consider Cruise & Maritime’s 120-day option aboard the 1,400-passenger Columbus, which has 150 cabins designed for solo travellers.

The company also offers two worldcruise routes — to Sydney and back (47 days) — but with options to leave or join the voyage at ports such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Auckland, Fremantle and Adelaide.

More unusual ports of call include Rabaul, Papua New Guinea; Picton, New Zealand; and Kagoshima, Japan. From £10,799 (R203,200), or £90 (R1,700) a day, departing Tilbury on January 5 2019.

See triton.cruisefactory.net.