Silversea expands UK cruise offering

Luxury cruise line Silversea has announced that it will visit more UK ports in 2010 than ever before, with four of the six Silversea ships visiting the UK in the year ahead. One reason for this is that many more British people are preferring to book cruise holidays sailing from the UK after last year’s troubles with fly-cruise departures from UK airports, most notably from Heathrow Terminal 5.

As a result fifteen cruises in the new Silversea brochure will leave from or finish at a British port and there are special discounts for early bookers. You can choose to depart from Southampton, Portsmouth, London (Tower Bridge) or Tilbury docks.

Sample cruises include the Silver Spirit, which will debut for the line in December, sailing from Southampton on 8th May for a twelve day cruise that visits St Malo, Bordeaux (overnight), Bilbao, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malaga and Barcelona with economy class flights home from Spain included in the brochure cost.

Then Silver Whisper will be leaving Nice on 31st May for a twelve day cruise that finishes at Southampton after calling at Barcelona, Malaga, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Oporto (Leixoes), Bilbao, St Malo and Honfleur and with economy class flights out to join the cruise ship in France included in the price.