…Fancy an adventure
Indulge your inner explorer and make your cruise all about exciting experiences. the middle east is a popular new destination for a real taste of adventure. For the first time, P&o Cruises (pocruises.com) are basing a ship in the region next year and between 10 January and 4 april 2019, will sail five 10-night cruises from Dubai on oceana from £899pp for an inside cabin. Excursions include everything from a desert safari, where you can go camel riding, sand boarding or try henna designs, followed by a bbQ dinner and belly dancing performance around the campfire. you could even take flight in a seaplane over abu Dhabi.
alternatively, turn the heat right down and embark on an epic expedition to antarctica. Explore the coldest, driest, highest and cleanest continent on the planet with a voyage sailing from south america to antarctica with Hurtigruten (020
3131 5839, hurtigruten.co.uk). Join a Christmas adventure (a white Christmas guaranteed) and celebrate the New year with penguins, seals and whales. From £4,654pp in December 2019.
another option is to visit one of the world’s most dramatic landscapes, studded with beautifully preserved and atmospheric medieval towns. Riviera travel (01283 742348, wahriviera.co.uk) offers an eight-day cruise around the Dalmatian Coast – from Dubrovnik to split, from £2,499pp.