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Tui plans Birmingham flights to Budapest in summer 2026
A new Tui Airways route from Birmingham to Budapest next summer will serve the operator’s Danube river cruises. The weekly Monday service
from May 4 to September 2026 comes as the operator deploys three Tui River Cruises ships on the Danube for the first time. Isla, Maya and Skyla will
be based on the river for the summer season, with flights from Birmingham added amid growing demand for central Europe sailings, said the operator. Flights to the Hungarian capital will also serve holidays to Lake Balaton. A seven-night East Danube
Explorer cruise with Birmingham flights starts at £1,529, departing May 4, 2026. Seven-night half-board stays at Siófok, Lake Balaton, start at £1,033.
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Budapest CRUISE
APT and Travelmarvel boost European fleet and itineraries
Samantha Mayling
APT and Travelmarvel’s recently launched 2026 Europe Collection features new river cruises, a new vessel and new Iberian and Italian small-group tours. A fourth Travelmarvel vessel will launch in April
2026. Rigel, named after a star in the Orion constellation, will be a sister ship to Polaris, Capella and Vega. Travelmarvel’s German river range has been expanded
with the addition of an eight-day The Rhine & Moselle itinerary. It will sail from Basel to Amsterdam between July and September 2026, with prices from £2,195. APT will operate a one-off sailing of its new 15-day
Voyage through the Balkans itinerary on March 13, 2026. The cruise will feature Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and more, and costs from £4,995. There will also be a one-off departure on the same
Do Something Different offers Disney’s Halloween Party tickets
Do Something Different has tickets for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida. It runs on selected nights at Magic Kingdom, from August 15-October 31. Tickets cost from £117 per adult and £107 per child aged 3-9. New features include a chance to meet Mickey and Minnie at the Town Square Theatre.
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date for APT’s Western Front Explorer River Cruise, which is a 15-day round trip from Amsterdam, from £5,395. It will take visitors to key World War One battlefields, plus Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. Three new small-group itineraries, in Spain, Portugal
and Italy, have been added to the tours range. They include the seven-day Essence of Portugal
tour from Lisbon to Porto, which can be booked as a standalone itinerary or as an extension to Travelmarvel’s Douro Discovery River Cruise. It costs from £1,995. An early-booking offer features savings of up to
£1,000 per person and free return business-class flights on selected balcony cabin bookings made by June 30. APT and Travelmarvel’s 2026 Europe packages
include flights, excursions, cruise and tour directors, tips, port charges and transfers.
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Kenya Airways to start Gatwick
flights to Nairobi next month Kenya Airways will start a Gatwick service to Nairobi on July 2, with three flights a week, on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The flight duration will be about eight-and-a-half hours. The service complements the carrier’s seven weekly flights to Heathrow. UK passport holders can obtain a Kenyan e-visa for $30.
kenya-airways.com
AmaWaterways unveils add-on in Alexandria to Nile itinerary
AmaWaterways has a new optional land package in Alexandria to complement its 11-night Secrets of Egypt & the Nile itinerary. Available from September, this three-night post-cruise extension features Alexandria’s Four Seasons Hotel. Prices start from £6,649 for a seven-night cruise on AmaLilia departing December 8.
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