CRUISE EVENTS & FESTIVALS DESTINATIONS
LEFT: New Year’s Eve, Sydney
RIGHT: Thiepval Memorial, France
BELOW: Australian Open tennis tournament
costs from £2,850 cruise-only. On the rivers, Rhine in Flames
is a firecracker of an event held on five weekends between May and September, when flotillas of illuminated boats cruise the river as fireworks light up the towns and cities along the banks. The River Cruise Line’s Lady Anne is joining the flotillas on cruises in August and September, while Shearings has timed a July cruise on the Rhine to be in Rüdesheim for the fireworks. From £1,412 for eight days, departing July 4, including return coach travel from the UK.
w SPORTS AND PORTS Cruise lines including Fred Olsen, Azamara, P&O Cruises and SeaDream Yacht Club are among those docked in or near Monte Carlo for this year’s Monaco
Grand Prix, from May 24-27. Star Clippers’ sailing ship Star Flyer will also be in the principality on May 24 for the trials and on May 27 for the race proper. From £1,695 cruise-only for a seven-night round-trip sailing from Cannes. Crystal Cruises’ Crystal
Serenity and Crystal Esprit will both be in Monaco on May 26 next year for the 2019 race. New this year, Crystal has a golf-themed cruise with excursions for players and tickets to the 2018 British Open in Carnoustie in Scotland, which takes place from July 19-22. The 14-day cruise around the British Isles departs Dover on July 15 and costs from £4,445. Excursions to the final cost $349 (grandstand) or $1,199 (Champions Club hospitality area). Footie fans can catch World
Cup matches in St Petersburg with Azamara this summer. A 12-night voyage from Greenwich to Stockholm is in the city for the Nigeria v Argentina game on June 26, while a sailing from Stockholm to Southampton, also 12 nights, is there for the Round of 16 match on July 3. Prices from £3,589. Match tickets are available via the Fifa website. Anyone for tennis? Rather than just attending an event for a day, clients can pair a 10-night South Australia Discovery cruise from Sydney on Holland America Line’s Noordam in January 2019 with a week or two in Melbourne during the Australian Open, running from January 14-27. The January 4-14 cruise costs from £1,189 excluding flights; tickets for the tennis will be on sale at
ausopen.com/tickets.
w ALL THAT JAZZ Music lovers can join an 11-day Rhône cruise between Arles and Saint Jean de Losne with Avalon Waterways in June that starts and ends with stays in Nice and Paris, and is in the town of Vienne, south of Lyon, on July 4 for its annual jazz festival (June 28-July 13). Everything from jazz and opera
to rock goes during La Fête de la Musique in the Champagne region of France, when amateur and professional musicians perform in free concerts and on street corners to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21. Hotel barge specialist European Waterways will be in the town of Dormans that evening on a six-night cruise from Châlons-en-Champagne to Château-Thierry. From £4,050 cruise-only departing June 17.
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