Cruise and Stay

With Cruise and Stay you get the best of both worlds - a chance to visit many places from the comfort of a ‘floating hotel' one week, and to explore in depth or chill out at one destination the other. Many cruises are just 7 days so adding a week in a hotel makes the most of your holiday. Cruise and Stay is a particularly good option if you're planning to cruise in a longhaul destination. Why go all that way without seeing and doing as much as you can?

Cruise and Stay holidays are available from many cruise lines who offer hotel packages as an add-on to their cruises. In the UK, Island Escape, Ocean Village and Thomson specialise in providing these packages in the Caribbean, Canary Islands and Mediterranean. American lines can offer add-ons in Miami and other US departure ports. In the Alaska region the option is more Cruise and Tour and Holland America, NCL, Princess and Royal Caribbean all offer pre and post tours of up to a week in the Canadian Rockies or Alaska.

Remember:

• your hotel stay may not be as all-inclusive as your cruise.
• to decide clearly which week is relaxation and which exploration.
• to pack carefully as cruise ships tend to be a bit dressier than hotels, and your land based itinerary could involve a different climate.