CHRISTMAS Cruise Tip
The cook who feels guilty at escaping the chore of slaving over a hot stove could try OCEANIA CRUISES, who, while providing traditional and local cuisine, also offer classes in how to cook Christmas meals at their unique floating cookery schools.
NEW YEAR Cruise Tip Looking for
full-on festivities. Decor includes reindeer in faux mink swags, candy canes and three heralding angels with golden trumpets. In the Bistro, an Eiffel Tower Christmas tree is lit from within and golden and white feathered trees line the Avenue of the Stars. On Christmas Eve, the traditional dinner, served amid gingerbread houses in the dining room, is followed by a Christmas tree lighting ceremony hosted by the Captain with carols, cookies and hot chocolate. All passengers get gifts, eggnog on Christmas morning and Christmas dinner while holiday-themed films and Christmas classics are shown on cabin TV. You may be in Hawaii or Mexico on Princess
Cruises’ Golden Princess but there will be falling snow in the Atrium, a Christmas tree-shaped cham- pagne fountain – and visits from Santa, of course.
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ew Year’s Eve at sea avoids all those drink- and-driving worries, and there are also plenty of people to join in Auld Lang Syne.
Crystal go one further on their Southern Summer Holiday Cruise, providing complimentary glass- walled cruisers for passengers to take part in Syd- ney’s grand flotilla harbour parade, before mooring opposite the Opera House for a prime viewing spot for the city’s famous fireworks while enjoying an open bar, live music, dancing and food. Oceania’s Regatta on New Year’s Eve makes the
transit of the Panama Canal, starting the New Year in Cartagena, while Star Clippers passengers can celebrate by joining the big yacht parties held in Virgin Gorda’s harbour in the Caribbean. P&O’s Adonia is in Tenerife on New Year’s Eve while Arcadia is in Barcelona. On all their ships,
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P&O make it a special occasion with formal dress, five-course gala dinner, West End style shows and countdown to midnight in all the bars and nightclubs.
Saga Cruises has a six-night Rhine cruise leaving on December 27 and celebrating New Year with fireworks on the Rhine and taking in Cologne, Strasbourg and Mainz. European Waterways of- fer a New Year’s Eve cruise on the Danube from Nuremberg to Vienna and Budapest, with no single supplement. There is no end of choice these days for a suitably festive season at sea, but, whatever you choose, you can be sure of plenty of maritime bon- homie as you cruise into 2013. And you can even come up with a great New Year resolution – to cruise again next year!
something special? Wine-tour experts ARBLASTER & CLARKE have chartered the Douro Prince on Portugal’s River Douro for a four- night New Year cruise. It will feature plenty of port and local wines to sample and a New Year’s Eve party on board.
An additional attraction will be dining at the Factory House in Oporto, the private club of the British Port Merchants.
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