Just sleeping in the harbor ...
For years, most cruise ships disgorged their passengers ashore in the morning and collected them again in the evening. Dinner in the beach taverna or nightlife in the island club? So far, unfortunately, no ...
But with an increasingly younger and more individual audience, this is changing. "Overnights" in the hippest ports around the Mediterranean, the Caribbean or the cities of the far north are on the itineraries of more and more luxury shipping companies. This winter, for example, the Seadreams yachts will be anchored off the jet-set island of St. Barts for two days several times, while Oceania Cruises can offer overnight stops in Bangkok or Saigon on its Asian routes. Barcelona is worth the expensive overnight berthing fees for the Europa 2 next summer. And guests on TUI Cruises' premium liner Mein Schiff 4 will be able to enjoy two days on the flower island of Madeira as part of this season's winter voyage to the Canary Islands. Incidentally, the trendsetter for this development is Azamara Club Cruise, which is including three overnights in Muscat, Aqaba and Haifa on a 16-day spring voyage through the Arab world. Anyone who would like to have solid ground under their feet for a little longer during their cruise has more and more opportunities to do so on more and more ships ...
















































