Azamara Club Cruises’ two intimate, 694-guest ships, Azamara Journey and Azamara Quest, offer a boutique European hotel ambience while sailing to 140 ports and 50 countries.
Seabourn boasts all-suite accommodation, complimentary fine wines and spirits, an unmatched ratio of elegantly designed space per guest, and an incomparable level of personalised service by nearly the same number of award winning crew as guests.
Each of Silversea's five all-inclusive ships are spacious yet intimate, with never more than 540 guests, and are as elegant and stylish as the world's finest hotels.
Europa is considered to be the world's finest yacht. Two hundred and eighty staff members look after a maximum of 408 passengers and the ship has the largest space per passenger in the industry.
While the rest of the world was buried under volcanic ash or GFC gloom, the happy isles of Oceania were putting on a growth spurt. Or so it seems from the number of cruise ships aiming to base themselves here.
The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world’s most popular cruising regions for a reason: it is the access point for waterways such as the Bosphorus and Black Sea that link southern Europe’s great cities to exotic Russian and Middle Eastern ports. Words: David McGonigal.
It is an introduction to cruising quite out of the ordinary: a sailing aboard the marvellous SeaDream I, taking in the highlights of the Mediterranean.