Prices for the 14-night cruise visiting north Africa and Europe now start at £599 for a March 29 departureTony Dawe Recommend? Discounted deals on cruises are often for voyages months ahead but here are some good offers for cruises over Easter or starting in Easter week. Cruise & Maritime Voyages has big reductions on board Marco Polo, which sails south from Tilbury on March 29 to the Canary Isles. Prices for the 14-night cruise now start at £599 for an inside cabin and £698 for one with an ocean view. Ports of call include Vigo on the northeast coast of Spain, Agadir on the Moroccan coast, the islands of Lanzarote, Madeira and La Gomera, and Oporto on the return trip. All meals and entertainment are included and among the performers will be Katy Setterfield, winner of the BBC’s The One and Only show, who does a remarkable impression of Dusty Springfield.
A week’s cruise taking in many of the principal sights of Egypt, Greece and Turkey is on offer from £749 with Cruise Thomas Cook. The holiday starts with a flight from Glasgow on April 8 to Crete to board Ocean Village which sails initially to Port Said for excursions to Cairo to visit the Pyramids.
Limassol in Cyprus and Rhodes Town are the next ports of call before Ocean Village heads to Kusadasi in Turkey to visit Ephesus, the best-preserved classical city of the Eastern Mediterranean, and Piraeus for Athens.
Sailing from Southampton on April 11 is a trip to an unusual collection of ports on board P&O’s Oriana. The first stop is Dublin and the second Cork before stops at the Basque city of Bilbao and its spectacular Guggenheim Museum. Oriana then returns via the French naval port of Brest. Prices for an inside stateroom for the week start at £614 with Cruise Thomas Cook.
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21.03.2010
