Saga launches full range of 2024 ocean cruisesSaga launches full range of 2024 ocean cruises

New for 2024, Saga revamped its UK travel package and the included return chauffeur service has now been extended to 300 miles from the departure port (previously it was 250 miles).

Those guests who live further afield and choose to join the cruise via a domestic flight to London or Southampton will also receive a chauffeur service from home to their local airport. They will then be picked up from their flight and driven to the ship.

This latest release of 2024 cruises sees Saga complete the lineup for next year, following its announcement last November of its first 10 itineraries in 2024 which will take place between January and March.

Spirit of Discovery

New cruises on Spirit of Discovery include a 12-night cruise to Spain and western France departing April 28, 2024 from Portsmouth. For the first time, Saga will visit Douarnenez, a small port town with an active sardine fishing and canning industry. The cruise will also visit Bordeaux, Bordeaux, La Pallice and Bilbao.

Spirit of Discovery will be heading to the Canary Islands for the festive season. Leaving Portsmouth on December 19, 2024, the Christmas in the Canary Islands all-inclusive cruise will visit Leixoes (for Oporto), Cadiz, Las Palmas, Santa Cruz (Tenerife), Santa Cruz (La Palma), Arrecife, Funchal and Lisbon. Prices start from £5,116 per person for a standard balcony cabin (based on two sharing).

Highlights for Spirit of Adventure

Highlights for Spirit of Adventure include a 22-night all-inclusive Athens and the Greek Islands cruise departing mid-April 2024 from Portsmouth, which, for the first time for Saga, will visit Hydra with its picturesque amphitheatre of stone mansions built in the 18th and 19th centuries by merchant captains; another debut port, this time Gudhjem in Bornholm, Denmark, features on a 12 night Scandinavian Gems cruise from Dover visiting Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Germany and Norway.

Caribbean-bound

For Christmas, Spirit of Adventure will be heading to the Caribbean from Portsmouth on December 6, 2024 for a 30-night all-inclusive cruise stopping in  Barbados, St Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Nevis, Tortola and Antigua, where the ship calls on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day will be spent at sea and Spirit of Adventure will anchor off Funchal to see the New Year in.

New Israel and Egypt

Saga announced advanced registrations for a new Israel and Egypt cruise, is already nearly full. The 24-night cruise departs Dover in September 2024 and will visit Gibraltar, Syracuse (Sicily), Souda (for Chania in Crete), Rhodes Town (Rhodes), Antalya (Turkey), Paphos (Cyprus), Ashdod (Israel), Haifa (Israel), Alexandria (Egypt), Valletta (Malta) and Ceuta (Spain) before returning home.

Also back by popular demand, notes Saga, are a range of seven short round-Britain cruises.