Cruise and Maritime Voyages

Cruise an Maritime Voyages offer “Traditional Cruises of Distinction”
They specialise in providing ex-UK ‘no fly’ cruising holidays aboard smaller and medium sized classic and more traditional style cruise ships.

Cruise and Maritime believe that their vessels, which are owned by independent and privately owned shipping companies, offer a more leisurely and friendly ‘home from home’ style of cruising, and offer their passengers a wide choice of interesting and remote ports of call.

All Cruise and Maritime Voyages ships

Themed Cruises Guide

Best Themed Cruises

Cook with Marco Pierre White and P&O, learn to lindy hop with Saga or trace your family history with Voyages of Discovery … [Read more...]

Best Honeymoon Cruise – Top ideas for planning your honeymoon

Best Honeymoon Cruise

Want to sail off into the sunset on your honeymoon? But not sure if a cruise is right for you? … [Read more...]

Marco Polo cruises from £599pp

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Arctic circle cruises on board the Marco Polo are now 60% cheaper, starting from £599 per person. The ship sails from London Tilbury on 13 June, embarking on a 12 night journey to Norway visiting Florø, Leknes, Honningsvaag, (when weather permitting, you can witness the Land of the Midnight Sun). From here the ship heads south visiting Alta, Tromsø, Molde and Andalsnes, which offers more spectacular scenery including the famous winding road … [Read more...]

Royal Wedding Cruise Celebrations

Many cruise lines are celebrating the Royal Wedding at sea

With the Royal Wedding drawing ever closer, Cruise International decided to investigate which cruise lines will be celebrating the wedding of the century at sea. … [Read more...]

Syd Lawrence Orchestra to play on board the Marco Polo

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The Legendary Syd Lawrence Orchestra will be playing on board Cruise and Maritime Voyages' elegant Marco Polo cruise ship on its 14 May ‘Grand British Isles’ sailing from London Tilbury. The orchestra, now under the leadership of trombonist Chris Dean, have astounded audiences for years with their thrilling renditions of a number of classics from Glen Miller, Ted Heath, John Barry and numerous others. While on board the band will be preforming … [Read more...]

Cruise lines increase fuel surcharges

Saga are not increasing ticket prices

Increases in fuel surcharges will lead to a rise in the overall costs of future cruise bookings, featured the Telegraph. Excess charges of £4 per day have been blamed upon a rise in the price of Brent crude oil from $50 to more than $100 since last spring, leading to a rise in the operating costs of numerous cruise companies. Existing bookings will not be affected by the increase, but for All Leisure Group's ships Voyages of Discovery cruises … [Read more...]

Ocean Countess

Ocean Countess

Following a £3 million refurbishment programme, Ocean Countess joined the Cruise & Maritime Voyages fleet in April 2010. The ship originally entered service as Cunard Countess and became one of the best-known ships to sail the Caribbean Sea.  With her distinctive traditional profile, the 800 passenger Ocean Countess has seven passenger decks, a generous amount of deck space, is stabilised and air conditioned throughout, and offers a truly relaxed … [Read more...]

Marco Polo

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Ocean Cruise Passenger capacity: 820 Passenger Decks: 8 Total Cabins: 425 Cabins (Balcony): Cabins (Outside): Cabins (Inside): Draught: 8.20m Gross Tonnage: 22080 Restaurants: 2 Swimming Pools: 1 Spa: Yes Gym: Yes Casino: No Exclusively For Adults: Yes Marco Polo features include: Waldorf and Marco's restaurant Ensuite cabin accommodation All meals onboard in … [Read more...]