Snap up a half-price voyage to Venice
IF YOU are planning an autumn getaway or looking further ahead to a holiday next year, now is the perfect time to pick up an excellent cruise deal. Here’s the pick of the best…
Seeing Venice in style this autumn won’t break the bank. Uniworld (uniworld.com) is offering 50 per cent off its Venice & Gems of Northern
Italy cruise if you book before the end of the month. In a week aboard sumptuous SS Venezia you’ll explore the city and the islands of the Lagoon and sail inland on the River Po. Cycling and wine tasting on Chioggia and a pasta-making class in Bologna are just some of the other highlights.
Fares start at £1,499pp (was £2,999pp) for departure on October 3, including flights, excursions, drinks and tips.
Snap up a trip to Belgium and Holland aboard Regal Princess (princess.com) and you can have a balcony cabin for the same price as one without a window, from just £499pp including drinks, unlimited wi-fi and tips. The five-night cruise from Southampton on October 7 calls at Rotterdam for an excursion to Amsterdam. Alternatively, try your hand at decorating your own blueand-white vase at the Royal Delft china factory. After docking in Zeebrugge, you can visit Bruges or Ghent or join a First World War battlefields tour.
See Barcelona and Rome next June, with a two-night hotel stay in each before and after a cruise aboard
Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody Of The Seas. The one-week cruise calls at Cannes and Nice on the French Riviera, historic Genoa and pretty Portofino on the Italian Riviera, and Livorno, the port for Pisa and Florence.
The 11-night package, flies from Heathrow on June 11, 2022, and costs from £849pp with cruise.co.uk.
If fitness and wellness are on your holiday wish list, then the new river cruiser A-Rosa Sena, launching next May, ticks those boxes. Its extra-large wellness area will have a gym bursting with equipment. And as well as spa treatment rooms there will be a Finnish sauna, ice grotto and fountain, relaxation room and healthy snacks bar. Prices for seven-night Rhine cruises from Cologne departing in September 2022 start at £1,829pp, including flights when booked through Panache (panachecruises.com).