Sailing in Style: How to make the most of a Europe cruise trifecta
Can you only travel two or 3 weeks at a time but you want to see the greatest number of places in Europe and you want to do it in the fewest number of trips we’ll show you How Europe is a complex continent to explore there are 44 countries and there are thousands of distinct locations many worth visiting three trips each one about 2 weeks long can get you to almost half of them we’ll show you specifics if you’re new here Welcome to
Our Channel our goal is to help you travel as far as you can while you still can when my wife and I first traveled to Europe 9 years ago I thought it would be our only trip there so we packed as much in as we possibly could we did a land
Trip of just over two weeks we visited five cities in four different countries it was expensive and it was exhausting but we were hooked we had to go back but we had to figure out how to do it more efficiently I would discover that the most efficient way to explore
Europe is by cruise ship why is it so efficient well start with access 22 of the 44 countries in Europe uh have Cruise ports and those are the countries that are on almost everybody’s bucket list to top it off embarcation ports are almost always next to international airports getting there and getting back
Is half the battle then there’s the efficiency while you sleep the ship travels it’s not uncommon to be able to see sites in five different countries in a span of five or 6 days you’re not wasting time packing and unpacking you you don’t have to worry about logistics
Uh multiple lodgings in multiple cities you don’t have to worry about where you’re going to eat um it’s just simple finally there’s cost Effectiveness when you consider the cost of Transportation lodging and meals you’ll discover that European cruises are a tremendous value we will illustrate enough of the sales pitch
Let’s get to the details as you can see from the map Europe is surrounded by water on three sides Med raining to the South the Atlantic Ocean to the West Baltic Sea to the north to be most efficient we’re going to plan one cruise for each of
These bodies of water let’s start with the Mediterranean we use vacations to go as our search engine to locate cruises it divides the Mediterranean into East West or total Mediterranean Italy is sort of the center point so West is from Portugal to Italy East is from Italy to
Turkey for this video we want a cruise that does the whole Mediterranean we’ve done that trip twice in 2016 we took a 13-day celebrity cruise from Athens Greece to Barcelona you see it here we made nine stops in six countries Greece turkey Croatia Italy France Spain in
2022 we took a little longer trip we took two back-to-back 11-day cruises on Norwegian Cruise Lines we actually started in the middle least so uh in the course of 22 days our itinerary in included an incredible 20 Port stops in seven countries in addition to all of
These you can also stop in Malta Slovenia Montenegro or Albania in all there’s at least 11 different countries that you can visit and you can also pick up a couple of Asian stops along the way here’s an example of a 14 night princess Cru that includes Spain France Italy
Greece and Turkey it stretches from the rocket jalter to Istanbul try doing that in a span of 14 days on land more than a dozen Cruise Lines operate in the Mediterranean at competitive prices in addition to NCL and Norwegian trips we’ve done shorter sailings on MSC in the western mid we’ve
Done Holland America in the East all are great options okay so you’ve knocked off stops in a half dozen Southern countries now how about the West the UK Ireland France Portugal Iceland and the Netherlands are all in play here Southampton which serves as the port for London is the
Most common port for at least one end of the trip in our case we chose the Princess Cruise Line British Isles tour and I give it the highest marks from Southampton we made a stop in gery two stops in Ireland one in Northern Ireland four in Scotland and finally a stop in
France from which we were able to do a Normandy Battlefield tour before returning to Southampton it’s a fantastic trip and one I would highly recommend there’s a variety of British cruise lines also that sail in this area including Pano and Canard travel tip while we use vacations
To go to find cruises the prices you see there don’t include Port taxes and gratuities so we then turn to a site called Cruise plum this will give you the all-in cost inclusive of taxes port fees and gratuities as you can see here the cruise that we took is available
This September for an all-in price of under $4,000 for two people before I get to the final Cruise destination let me invite you to like And subscribe to our Channel we offer Real World Travel advice for Cruisers and other Travelers it costs nothing to subscribe and it really helps the
Channel the Baltic Sea will be the finest leg finest leg the the Baltic Sea will be the final leg of our cruise travel Trifecta here’s a sample of a 13 night sailing on Holland America it includes 12 different northern European ports in seven countries okay so now I’m going to put
It all together for you if you took the three cruises that we Illustrated the 13-day trip we took on Celebrity the 12-day on Princess and the 13 uh that I just mentioned on Hall America you would see major sites in 14 countries shown on this map and there’s nine more in Europe
That have Cruise ports that are easily accessible as always the message is if not now when until next time safe travels
Want to travel to Europe, but are put off by the time and complexity involved? Want to see the most possible sights in the least possible time? Want to save money in the process?
What if we told you that it is possible to see the major sights of Europe in three trips of two weeks each? We lay out a plan to visit every major country quickly and cost effectively via cruise ship.
We suggest cruise lines, itineraries, and explain the costs.
You will be amazed.