Lap up Madeira with our Olly...

A fortified fiesta

Book now to join The Mail on Sunday’s wine expert Olly Smith aboard P&O’s Ventura on an Atlantic Islands cruise departing Southampton on November 26. Olly will host tastings and wine pairing dinners. In Madeira, he’ll lead a tour of Blandy’s vineyards. The 13-night, no-fly cruise also calls at Tenerife, Grand Canaria and Lanzarote, and the Spanish port of La Coruna, with fares from £796pp. iglucruise.com

Discover Discovery

See the finishing touches put on Saga’s new ship Spirit of Discovery (launching July 2019). A new Maritime Cities Of The Continent cruise aboard Saga Sapphire, sailing from Dover on February 6, calls at the German port of Wilhelmshaven for a tour of the Meyer Werft shipyard, where Discovery is being built. Sapphire then sails up the River Elbe to Hamburg. Amsterdam and Zeebrugge (the port for Bruges) are also on the six-night no-fly itinerary. Fares are from £922pp. saga.co.uk/ocean-cruises

Christmas on the Rhine

On a Christmas cruise on the Rhine, sailing from Cologne on December 22, you can browse festive markets with mugs of gluhwein and attend midnight mass in Speyer Cathedral. The cost of the six-night cruise on Silver II starts at £1,499pp (a saving of £600), including flights from Heathrow. If you book for Christmas 2019 before the end of this month, you’ll get a 15 per cent discount. amadeus-rivercruises.co.uk

Mojitos all round!

Silversea has five new Cuban voyages in 2019 which include overnight stays in Havana to see the Tropicana Club cabaret, and Santiago de Cuba where Castro started the revolution. All-inclusive fares start at £3,200pp for seven nights on Silver Wind from San Juan in Puerto Rico to Fort Lauderdale in Florida, departing February 14. silversea.com