IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THE WHOLE WORLD: P&O

Countries visited: 23 Ports visited: 31 Nights in port: 6 Islands visited: 11

Like Cruise & Maritime and Fred Olsen, P&O gives you a long time at sea without charging a king’s ransom: its 99-night Western Circumnavigation in 2019 aboard the

2,094-passenger Arcadia works out at just over £100 (R1,900) nightly.

Port overnights (six) are few but include San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai and — unusually — a night in Dubai. There are also several “evenings in port”, including in Colombo and Lisbon.

P&O has made life especially easy for those who want to do sectors rather than the full itinerary, with 16 options. These include the popular UK-to-Australia leg (Southampton to Brisbane or Sydney) and segments such as Hong Kong-to-Southampton (35 nights from £3,799, or about R71,500). The Hong Kong departure is March 12 2019.

From £9,999 (R188,200) per person, departing Southampton January 6 2019.

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