Take the ultimate holiday with cruise and stay options
If you've ever felt like you need a holiday after a holiday, you
can with a cruise. Cruises sail you to some of the world's most
beautiful coast lines and once you've sampled the ports more often
than not you'd love to spend longer there and see more.
Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Azamara and Holland America
Line all offer cruisetours. These exciting options can be taken
before or after your cruise and let you enjoy guided tours around
sensational destinations such as Alaska, Canada, Australia and
Asia. In most cases your fare includes the price of your cruise,
tour, high-quality hotels and your local guide.
Take Azamara's Asia cruisetour and you'll visit the Great Wall
of China, Beijing, Hong Kong, Xian and Guilin whilst Princess
Cruises are experts at offering seamless Alaskan cruisetours.
Awarded best cruisetour program, Princess Cruises take you from
Whittier on their exclusive 'Direct to the Wilderness' glass-domed
train straight to the heart of Denali National Park where you're
welcomed into their cosy log cabins.
Explore at your own pace
If you want to take time to explore these destinations at your
own pace, there are a number of cruise lines that offer extensions,
such as MSC Cruises, Hurtigruten and Thomson and Island
Cruises.
MSC Cruises offer hotel packages in many of their major
destinations and take care of all the details for you, so you could
start your holiday with a shopping spree in New York before heading
to Canada. Choose the 'Cruise and Stay' option with Thomson and
Island Cruises and you'll enjoy the best of both worlds - a 7-night
Mediterranean cruise followed by 7-nights in a high-quality Thomson
hotel, all for a very reasonable price.
Hurtigruten mostly offer excursions, but one extension to note
is on their Norwegian voyages. Reaching Kirkenes in Northern
Finland you can leave your cruise for three days to explore the
culture of the Sami - the largest indigenous group in Europe. What
an adventure!
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