IF YOU’RE ON A BUDGET:
Fred Olsen Countries visited: 29 Ports visited: 63 Islands visited: 13 Nights in port: 28
If value for money is key — along with plenty of time at sea — then Fred Olsen can’t be beaten: £14,999 (about R282,000) for the company’s 168-day 2019 world cruise aboard the 880-passenger Boudicca works out at about £89 (R1,677) a day.
The cruise offers an above-average number of overnights, and in destinations often ignored by other cruises such as Hobart, Melbourne, Bali, the Andaman Islands, Kochi (India) and Yangon (Myanmar).
Note, though, that this is not a full circumnavigation — the Americas and Pacific islands remain untouched. In a smart piece of programming, the ship will overnight in Sydney on New Year’s Eve for the fireworks. Departs Dover on October 3 2019.
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