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9th09 | AprApr | 202525 | Valletta, Malta, embark on the La Belle de L'Adriatique | 18:00 | |||
Malta's capital, the minicity of Valletta, has ornate palaces and museums protected by massive fortifications of honey-color limestone. Houses along the narrow streets have overhanging wooden balconies for people-watching from indoors. Generations ago they gave housebound women a window on the world of the street. The main entrance to town is through the City Gate (where all bus routes end), which leads onto Triq Repubblika (Republic Street), the spine of the grid-pattern city and the main shopping street. Triq Mercante (Merchant Street) parallels Repubblika to the east and is also good for strolling. From these two streets, cross streets descend toward the water; some are stepped. Valletta's compactness makes it ideal to explore on foot. City Gate and the upper part of Valletta are experiencing vast redevelopment that includes a new Parliament Building and open-air performance venue. The complex, completed mid-2013, has numerous pedestrian detours in place along with building noise and dust. Before setting out along Republic Street, stop at the tourist information office on Merchant Street for maps and brochures. Boarding.Well introduce our crew at a welcome cocktail. | |||||||
10th10 | AprApr | 202525 | Valletta, Malta | 20:00 | |||
Malta's capital, the minicity of Valletta, has ornate palaces and museums protected by massive fortifications of honey-color limestone. Houses along the narrow streets have overhanging wooden balconies for people-watching from indoors. Generations ago they gave housebound women a window on the world of the street. The main entrance to town is through the City Gate (where all bus routes end), which leads onto Triq Repubblika (Republic Street), the spine of the grid-pattern city and the main shopping street. Triq Mercante (Merchant Street) parallels Repubblika to the east and is also good for strolling. From these two streets, cross streets descend toward the water; some are stepped. Valletta's compactness makes it ideal to explore on foot. City Gate and the upper part of Valletta are experiencing vast redevelopment that includes a new Parliament Building and open-air performance venue. The complex, completed mid-2013, has numerous pedestrian detours in place along with building noise and dust. Before setting out along Republic Street, stop at the tourist information office on Merchant Street for maps and brochures. Included excursion: Valletta.Free time in the afternoon.Our ship will cast off for Greece. | |||||||
11th11 | AprApr | 202525 | At Sea | ||||
12th12 | AprApr | 202525 | Katakolon, Greece | 07:00 | 18:00 | ||
Katakolon could not seem less of a cruise port if it tried. A tiny enclave clinging to the western Peloponnese coast, it's a sleepy place except when ships dock. But it's a popular cruise destination because of its proximity to Olympia. Ancient Olympia was one of the most important cities in classical Greece. The Sanctuary of Zeus was the city's raison d'être, and attracted pilgrims from around the eastern Mediterranean, and later the city played host to Olympic Games, the original athletic games that were the inspiration for today's modern sporting pan-planetary meet. At the foot of the tree-covered Kronion hill, in a valley near two rivers, Katakolon is today one of the most popular ancient sites in Greece. If you don't want to make the trip to Olympia, then Katakolon is an ideal place for a leisurely Greek lunch while you watch the fishermen mend their nets, but there's just not much else to do there. Included excursion: The archaeological ruins in Olympia.Well spend the afternoon cruising. | |||||||
13th13 | AprApr | 202525 | Gythio, Greece | 07:00 | 18:00 | ||
Included excursion: Mystras and Sparta.Well spend the afternoon cruising. | |||||||
14th14 | AprApr | 202525 | Náfplion, Greece | 07:00 | 18:00 | ||
Oraia (beautiful) is the word Greeks use to describe Nafplion. The town's old section, on a peninsula jutting into the gulf of Argos, mixes Greek, Venetian, and Turkish architecture; narrow streets, often just broad flights of stone stairs, climb the slopes beneath the walls of Acronafplia. Tree-shaded plazas surround neoclassic buildings. The Palamidi fortress—an elegant display of Venetian might from the early 1700s—guards the town. Nafplion deserves at least a leisurely day of your undivided attention, and you may want to spend several days or a week here and use the city as the base from which to explore the many surrounding ancient sights. Included excursion to the heart of the Argolis Region to visitMycenae and Nafplio.Our ship will cruise to Piraeus Harbor.Tonight is our festive gala evening. | |||||||
15th15 | AprApr | 202525 | Piraeus, Greece | 13:00 | |||
It's no wonder that all roads lead to the fascinating and maddening metropolis of Athens. Lift your eyes 200 feet above the city to the Parthenon, its honey-color marble columns rising from a massive limestone base, and you behold architectural perfection that has not been surpassed in 2,500 years. But, today, this shrine of classical form dominates a 21st-century boomtown. To experience Athens—Athína in Greek—fully is to understand the essence of Greece: ancient monuments surviving in a sea of cement, startling beauty amid the squalor, tradition juxtaposed with modernity. Locals depend on humor and flexibility to deal with the chaos; you should do the same. The rewards are immense. Although Athens covers a huge area, the major landmarks of the ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods are close to the modern city center. You can easily walk from the Acropolis to many other key sites, taking time to browse in shops and relax in cafés and tavernas along the way. From many quarters of the city you can glimpse "the glory that was Greece" in the form of the Acropolis looming above the horizon, but only by actually climbing that rocky precipice can you feel the impact of the ancient settlement. The Acropolis and Filopappou, two craggy hills sitting side by side; the ancient Agora (marketplace); and Kerameikos, the first cemetery, form the core of ancient and Roman Athens. Along the Unification of Archaeological Sites promenade, you can follow stone-paved, tree-lined walkways from site to site, undisturbed by traffic. Cars have also been banned or reduced in other streets in the historical center. In the National Archaeological Museum, vast numbers of artifacts illustrate the many millennia of Greek civilization; smaller museums such as the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum illuminate the history of particular regions or periods. Athens may seem like one huge city, but it is really a conglomeration of neighborhoods with distinctive characters. The Eastern influences that prevailed during the 400-year rule of the Ottoman Empire are still evident in Monastiraki, the bazaar area near the foot of the Acropolis. On the northern slope of the Acropolis, stroll through Plaka (if possible by moonlight), an area of tranquil streets lined with renovated mansions, to get the flavor of the 19th-century's gracious lifestyle. The narrow lanes of Anafiotika, a section of Plaka, thread past tiny churches and small, color-washed houses with wooden upper stories, recalling a Cycladic island village. In this maze of winding streets, vestiges of the older city are everywhere: crumbling stairways lined with festive tavernas; dank cellars filled with wine vats; occasionally a court or diminutive garden, enclosed within high walls and filled with magnolia trees and the flaming trumpet-shaped flowers of hibiscus bushes. Formerly run-down old quarters, such as Thission, Gazi and Psirri, popular nightlife areas filled with bars and mezedopoleia (similar to tapas bars), are now in the process of gentrification, although they still retain much of their original charm, as does the colorful produce and meat market on Athinas. The area around Syntagma Square, the tourist hub, and Omonia Square, the commercial heart of the city about 1 km (½ mi) northwest, is distinctly European, having been designed by the court architects of King Otho, a Bavarian, in the 19th century. The chic shops and bistros of ritzy Kolonaki nestle at the foot of Mt. Lycabettus, Athens's highest hill (909 feet). Each of Athens's outlying suburbs has a distinctive character: in the north is wealthy, tree-lined Kifissia, once a summer resort for aristocratic Athenians, and in the south and southeast lie Glyfada, Voula, and Vouliagmeni, with their sandy beaches, seaside bars, and lively summer nightlife. Just beyond the city's southern fringes is Piraeus, a bustling port city of waterside fish tavernas and Saronic Gulf views. Well spend the morning cruising.Included excursion: Athens and the Acropolis.We'll enjoy a traditional Greek meal and entertainment this evening. | |||||||
16th16 | AprApr | 202525 | Piraeus, Greece, disembark the La Belle de L'Adriatique | ||||
It's no wonder that all roads lead to the fascinating and maddening metropolis of Athens. Lift your eyes 200 feet above the city to the Parthenon, its honey-color marble columns rising from a massive limestone base, and you behold architectural perfection that has not been surpassed in 2,500 years. But, today, this shrine of classical form dominates a 21st-century boomtown. To experience Athens—Athína in Greek—fully is to understand the essence of Greece: ancient monuments surviving in a sea of cement, startling beauty amid the squalor, tradition juxtaposed with modernity. Locals depend on humor and flexibility to deal with the chaos; you should do the same. The rewards are immense. Although Athens covers a huge area, the major landmarks of the ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods are close to the modern city center. You can easily walk from the Acropolis to many other key sites, taking time to browse in shops and relax in cafés and tavernas along the way. From many quarters of the city you can glimpse "the glory that was Greece" in the form of the Acropolis looming above the horizon, but only by actually climbing that rocky precipice can you feel the impact of the ancient settlement. The Acropolis and Filopappou, two craggy hills sitting side by side; the ancient Agora (marketplace); and Kerameikos, the first cemetery, form the core of ancient and Roman Athens. Along the Unification of Archaeological Sites promenade, you can follow stone-paved, tree-lined walkways from site to site, undisturbed by traffic. Cars have also been banned or reduced in other streets in the historical center. In the National Archaeological Museum, vast numbers of artifacts illustrate the many millennia of Greek civilization; smaller museums such as the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum illuminate the history of particular regions or periods. Athens may seem like one huge city, but it is really a conglomeration of neighborhoods with distinctive characters. The Eastern influences that prevailed during the 400-year rule of the Ottoman Empire are still evident in Monastiraki, the bazaar area near the foot of the Acropolis. On the northern slope of the Acropolis, stroll through Plaka (if possible by moonlight), an area of tranquil streets lined with renovated mansions, to get the flavor of the 19th-century's gracious lifestyle. The narrow lanes of Anafiotika, a section of Plaka, thread past tiny churches and small, color-washed houses with wooden upper stories, recalling a Cycladic island village. In this maze of winding streets, vestiges of the older city are everywhere: crumbling stairways lined with festive tavernas; dank cellars filled with wine vats; occasionally a court or diminutive garden, enclosed within high walls and filled with magnolia trees and the flaming trumpet-shaped flowers of hibiscus bushes. Formerly run-down old quarters, such as Thission, Gazi and Psirri, popular nightlife areas filled with bars and mezedopoleia (similar to tapas bars), are now in the process of gentrification, although they still retain much of their original charm, as does the colorful produce and meat market on Athinas. The area around Syntagma Square, the tourist hub, and Omonia Square, the commercial heart of the city about 1 km (½ mi) northwest, is distinctly European, having been designed by the court architects of King Otho, a Bavarian, in the 19th century. The chic shops and bistros of ritzy Kolonaki nestle at the foot of Mt. Lycabettus, Athens's highest hill (909 feet). Each of Athens's outlying suburbs has a distinctive character: in the north is wealthy, tree-lined Kifissia, once a summer resort for aristocratic Athenians, and in the south and southeast lie Glyfada, Voula, and Vouliagmeni, with their sandy beaches, seaside bars, and lively summer nightlife. Just beyond the city's southern fringes is Piraeus, a bustling port city of waterside fish tavernas and Saronic Gulf views. Disembarkation. |
The images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of what you find on the ship.
Grade Code | From | To | |
C_GLS_PIH | Category C (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, First Deck) | £2,165 | £2,165 |
B_GLS_PIH | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, First Deck) | £2,232 | £2,232 |
A_GLS_PIH | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, First Deck) | £2,351 | £2,351 |
The cabins available on the Lower Deck are furnished with optional twin or double beds. All cabins have portholes and are equipped with an ensuite shower room, a hair dryer, satellite television, radio and an in-room safe.
Ensuring your comfort air-conditioning is available in the Summer and central heating for the Winter.
Grade Code | From | To | |
C_GLS_PPH | Category C (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, Main Deck) | £2,398 | £2,398 |
B_GLS_PPH | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, Main Deck) | £2,465 | £2,465 |
A_GLS_PPH | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, Main Deck) | £2,584 | £2,584 |
The cabins available on the Reception Deck are furnished with optional twin or double beds. All cabins have portholes and are equipped with an ensuite shower room, a hair dryer, satellite television, radio and an in-room safe.
Ensuring your comfort air-conditioning is available in the Summer and central heating for the Winter.
Grade Code | From | To | |
B_GLS_PE | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Boarding Deck) | £2,531 | £2,531 |
A_GLS_PE | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Boarding Deck) | £2,650 | £2,650 |
The cabins available on the Reception Deck are furnished with optional twin or double beds. All cabins have large fixed windows from which you can enjoy the oceanic views and are equipped with an ensuite shower room, a hair dryer, satellite television, radio and an in-room safe.
Ensuring your comfort air-conditioning is available in the Summer and central heating for the Winter.
Grade Code | From | To | |
C_DBL_PS | Category C (Double Bed, Upper Deck) | £2,559 | £2,559 |
B_GLS_PS | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Upper Deck) | £2,626 | £2,626 |
A_GLS_PS | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Upper Deck) | £2,745 | £2,745 |
The cabins available on the Upper Deck are furnished with optional twin or double beds. All cabins have large fixed windows from which you can enjoy the oceanic views and are equipped with an ensuite shower room, a hair dryer, satellite television, radio and an in-room safe.
Ensuring your comfort air-conditioning is available in the Summer and central heating for the Winter.
There is also a single cabin and one cabin suitable for passengers with reduced mobility on this deck.
AMENITIES
Please note that there is no laundry service on board the ship.
The images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of what you find on the ship.
The images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of what you find on the ship.
Take advantage of the sun deck to relax! It is equipped with chairs and deckchairs, allowing you to cool off while enjoying a panoramic view of the magnificent landscapes.
Rest and relax in the Jacuzzi while enjoying the beautiful landscapes.
The images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of what you find on the ship.
The images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of what you find on the ship.
7 nights aboard the La Belle de L'Adriatique | |||
All meals included | |||
Drinks included with meals & at the bar | |||
Gala dinner & evening welcome cocktail | |||
Free Wi-Fi in lounge & bar | |||
Headsets included for excursions | |||
Travel Assistance & Repatriation Insurance | |||
Port Taxes and Fees | |||
ABTA and ATOL Protection* |
Date 9th Apr 2025 |
Nts 7 |
Oceanview £2,165pp |
Date 9th Apr 2025 |
Nts 7 |
Oceanview £2,165pp |
Oceanview staterooms from | £2,165pp | ||
A_GLS_PE | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Boarding Deck) | £2,650pp | |
A_GLS_PIH | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, First Deck) | £2,351pp | |
A_GLS_PPH | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, Main Deck) | £2,584pp | |
A_GLS_PS | Category A (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Upper Deck) | £2,745pp | |
B_GLS_PE | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Boarding Deck) | £2,531pp | |
B_GLS_PIH | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, First Deck) | £2,232pp | |
B_GLS_PPH | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, Main Deck) | £2,465pp | |
B_GLS_PS | Category B (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Upper Deck) | £2,626pp | |
C_DBL_PS | Category C (Double Bed, Upper Deck) | £2,559pp | |
C_GLS_PIH | Category C (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, First Deck) | £2,165pp | |
C_GLS_PPH | Category C (2 Adjustable Twin Beds, Portholes, Main Deck) | £2,398pp | |
Oceanview | |
(All prices are £GBP per person) | |
Thu 9th Apr 202609 Apr 26 | 2,232 |
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