6 of the best value luxury cruises in Europe and beyond for 2025

A luxury cruise mightiness not beryllium the archetypal enactment that comes to caput erstwhile readying a budget-friendly holiday. 

But erstwhile you commencement doing the maths — and origin successful everything that’s included — you mightiness beryllium amazed by however affordable a high-end getaway astatine oversea tin really be.

From entertainment and good eating to off-board excursions, a luxury voyage tin adjacent connection amended worth for wealth than an all-inclusive resort. 

Not to notation you get to research aggregate destinations successful 1 trip. 

Metro has rounded up six of the champion luxury cruises connected connection truthful you tin acceptable sail, without your finances sinking. 

APT & Travelmarvel

• Munich to Budapest, 8 days: 1,695 per person
• Budapest to Amsterdam, 15 days: £4,795 per person

APT & Travelmarvel is presently offering a Worldwide New Year Sale, giving travellers the accidental to prevention connected prime voyages erstwhile booking earlier February 28. 

Customers tin prevention £1,000 connected the ‘Magnificent Europe’ stream cruise – a 15-day travel from Budapest to Amsterdam taking successful 14 cities – present priced astatine £4,795 (down from £5,795).

The fare includes home-to-airport transfers, instrumentality flights, 41 onboard meals, beverages and accommodation aboard 1 of APT’s newest ‘ultra-luxury ships’. 

Highlights see a backstage cocktail reception astatine Namedy Castle successful the Rhine Valley, an exclusive show astatine the Liechtenstein City Palace successful Vienna, and a luncheon acceptable to the euphony from The Sound of Music successful solemnisation of the movie’s 60th day successful 2025. 

Those looking for an adjacent cheaper woody tin bask the eight-day ‘Highlights of the Danube’ stream cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, which costs from £1,695 per person.

This cruise includes instrumentality flights, 7 nights of accommodation, sightseeing, 20 meals and brushed drinks, brew and section vino and meal connected board. 

Cunard

• Southampton to Vigo, 8 days: £899 per person
• Southampton to Rome, 8 days: £599 per person

Cunard Cruises has voyages for little than £1,000. The luxurious cruise enactment has a fleet of 4 ships, travelling to worldwide destinations including the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, Australia and South America.

There’s a seven-night wine-themed cruise travelling from Southampton to Portugal and onto Spain for £899 per person. Setting sail successful March, it includes an overnight enactment successful Lisbon.

Cunard besides offers ‘late sailing offers’, which reward last-minute and spontaneous travellers. For example, a seven-night Mediterranean cruise departing April 13 starts at £599 per person. The travel takes travellers from Southampton to Vigo, Barcelona and onto Rome and includes a country with a balcony.

Seabourn

• Lisbon to Tangier to Barcelona, 7 days: £3,700 per person

This ultra-luxury cruise enactment offers an all-inclusive acquisition and travels astir each 7 continents. With a fleet of six yacht-like ships, the cruise enactment is known for its personalised and intimate services. 

Seabourn’s ships person the capableness for conscionable 260 to 600 passengers, allowing entree to smaller and much exclusive ports, and offering an astir 1:1 ratio of rider to crew. 

Although exclusive, prices for immoderate voyages mightiness not beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic you’d expect. The cruise enactment besides has a ‘Sail of the Year’ offering until February 18. These see up to 15% savings connected prime journeys and up to $1,000 shipboard recognition per suite. 

Currently, there’s a seven-day Mediterranean cruise astir Morocco and Spain’s confederate coast, departing April 9 for £3,700 per person. 

The all-inclusive voyage includes accommodation, and guests tin bask complimentary good wines, premium spirits and eating successful immoderate of the ship’s restaurants.

Azmara

• Barcelona to Southern France to Rome, 10 days: £1,669 per person

Azmara brands itself arsenic a ‘luxurious boutique edifice astatine sea’. It includes much successful its fares than galore different cruise lines, specified arsenic gratuities, prime beverages and excursions. However, all-inclusive intoxicant is not included.

The fleet has 4 ships each accommodating up to 702 guests, which again allows entree to smaller, intimate destinations that larger ships cannot reach.

The least-expensive booking we recovered online was a nine-night ‘France intensive voyage’ for £1,669 per person, sailing connected April 2, 2025.

The travel spans 3 countries and 9 ports, with guests staying successful a luxurious country featuring a queen-sized bed, 24-hour country service, and unlimited self-service laundry.

The acquisition besides includes an overnight enactment successful Barcelona.

Viking Cruises

• Amsterdam to Basel, 8 days: £1,695 per person

Viking Cruises is an award-winning luxury marque that is regularly recognised among the world’s best.

The institution operates a fleet of implicit 90 vessels, including river, ocean, and expedition ships, offering voyages crossed each 7 continents. Its water fleet consists of elegantly designed, tiny all-veranda ships, allowing guests to entree much intimate ports.

The cheapest terms astatine the clip of penning is simply a Viking Rhine Getaway cruise, starting from £1,695 per person for an eight-day voyage, depending connected the clip of twelvemonth and country booked.

The cruise travels from Amsterdam to Basel, passing done respective picturesque European cities, including Cologne, Strasbourg, and Lucerne, offering tours successful each city.

The cruise enactment is considered ‘nearly all-inclusive’ – it covers instrumentality flights from London and selected determination airports, 1 complimentary enactment excursion successful each larboard of call, and escaped Wi-Fi.

You’ll besides bask beer, wine, and brushed drinks with luncheon and meal onboard, on with 24-hour speciality coffees, teas, and bottled water.

Port taxes, fees, and crushed transfers, on with visits to UNESCO sites are besides covered erstwhile you acquisition via Viking Air.

Celebrity Cruises

• Ravenna to Croatia to Rome, 12 days: £959
• Athens to Turkey to Greek islands (and return), 8 days: £737

Celebrity Cruises is simply a premium enactment that sails to destinations worldwide, including the Caribbean, Europe, Alaska, and Asia.

It besides offers ‘All-Included’ packages connected immoderate sailings, with amenities similar gratuities, prime beverages, Wi-Fi, and specialty eating included.

The cruise enactment is presently offering an 11-night ‘Best of Italy and Croatia’ voyage successful June 2025 starting from £959, travelling to places specified arsenic Ravenna, Italy, and Dubrovnik, Croatia aboard its modular ‘Insider suite’, which includes dining, entertainment, regular activities and more.

If you privation to publication further successful advance, a ‘Best of Greece’ circuit is presently on offer with prices starting from £737 per idiosyncratic for an ‘Insider’ suite. The voyage starts and ends successful Athens and explores places specified arsenic Rhodes, Greece, Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey, Mykonos, Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, Santorini, Greece, and Athens (Piraeus), Greece.

If you privation to enactment successful its premium suite connected the aforesaid journey, it volition outgo you £3,000, which gives you the ‘All Included’ enactment and modular amenities. Suites see ocean-view balconies, premium drinks and Wi-Fi, a backstage edifice and lounge, a butler, and more.

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