First time UK call for Voyages to Antiquity

Voyages to Antiquity (www.voyagestoantiquity.com) today welcome a new chapter in its seven year history with the arrival of the 350 passenger Aegean Odyssey in the UK for the first time. The milestone comes ahead of the cruise line’s first dedicated European programme that features no fly cruising from the UK.

The Aegean Odyssey arrived in Falmouth at 7am this morning as part of its 24-day Grand European Voyage. The ship will then head to the Mediterranean before returning to the UK next year for the new 2017 programme featuring 17 itineraries, four ex-UK sailings and maiden visits to the Orkney and Shetland Islands, Iceland and Olbia in Sardinia.

Jos Dewing, Managing Director, Voyages to Antiquity commented:

“Today’s UK visit is the perfect way to mark the launch of our new dedicated European and UK 2017 programme. Not only are we introducing many new ports of call but we also have our first ever no-fly cruises from the UK.”

Voyages to Antiquity (www.voyagestoantiquity.com) is offering savings of up to £1,600 per cabin plus a 10 per cent discount for all repeat cruisers for all 2017 bookings until the end of July 2016.

Highlights of the 2017 programme include:

• Save up to £800 per cabin on the 15-day ‘Iceland, Faroes and Shetland Islands’ cruise, which departs Tilbury (London, England) and calls at Rosyth (Scotland), Kirkwall (Orkney Islands), Heimaey, Reykjavik, Isafjordur, Akureyri and Husavik (all Iceland), Torshavn (Faroe Islands) and Lerwick (Shetland Islands) before returning to Tilbury (London, England) where guests disembark. The cruise is priced from £2,295 per person, based on a 29 June or 8 August 2017 departure in a standard inside cabin. Price includes the 15-day cruise, all meals and drinks with dinner onboard, guest speakers onboard, and around 10 shore excursions

• Save up to £400 per cabin on the 16-day ‘England, Ireland and Scotland’ cruise, which departs from Tilbury (London, England) and calls at Guernsey (Channel Islands), Falmouth (England), Isles of Scilly (Englad), Dublin (Ireland) for an overnight stay, Liverpool (England), Douglas (Isle of Man, England), Isle of Arran (Scotland), Stornoway (Hebrides, Scotland), Kirkwall (Orkney Islands, Scotland), Scrabster (Scotland), and Oban (Scotland) before arriving in Greenock (Edingburgh, Scotland) for a two-night hotel stay in Edinburgh before the flight home. The cruise is priced from £2,495 per person, based on a 13 July 2017 departure in a standard inside cabin. Price includes the 16-day cruise, all meals and drinks with dinner onboard, guest speakers onboard, and shore excursions.

Guests can enjoy the best of small ship ocean- and river-cruising on select 2017 itineraries. In western France the Aegean Odyssey will sail into the Gironde and the Loire Rivers and visit the famous chateaux country; while in England call in to Falmouth, Cornwall to explore the West Country. The award-winning cruise line will be welcoming celebrated guest speakers from The Ashmolean Museum, Wellcome Trust and Cambridge University among others, throughout its 2017 programme. Notable speakers onboard include BBC broadcaster Ernest Rea, astronomer and geologist Peter Cattermole and the newly appointed Sackler Keeper of Antiquities at The Ashmolean Museum, Dr Paul Roberts.

For more information and to book the new 2017 programme, visit www.voyagestoantiquity.com or call 01865 302550, like us on Facebook or follow on Twitter @voyageantiquity.