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Newly-christened MSC Virtuosa will return to Southampton for summer 2022 to sail to Norway, the Baltics and the Mediterranean

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on December 2, 2021
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At least ship will be based in the UK all year

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Britons excluded as MSC Cruises announces plans for summer sailings in the Med

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on August 3, 2020August 24, 2020
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Grandiosa and Magnifica return with new health protocols

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Ponant restarts cruises with five sailings from the French coast in July

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on June 4, 2020June 12, 2020
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Itineraries include the first in the Med since coronavirus outbreak

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100-day countdown begins to Celebrity Apex sailing its first cruise from Southampton

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on December 23, 2019
  • New ships

First Celebrity Cruises ship to be launched in the UK for ten years

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Guest blog: It didn’t Costa lot but our cheap Med cruise came at a price…

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on December 18, 2017
  • Cruise reviews

A week on the Costa Diadema for just £349 a person – including flights and hotel

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From Venice to Barcelona – a photo essay of a Med cruise on Viking Sea

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on May 13, 2016May 13, 2016
  • Cruise reviews

Pictures, video and slideshows

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Cool Britannia – Saturday Kitchen star James Martin joins celebrity chefs for P&O Cruises’ new flagship

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on February 12, 2014January 1, 2018
  • News

Pictures, news and itineraries just released of P&O Cruises’ new ship, Britannia, with details of all its maiden season voyages next year

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Many more cruise articles on metro.co.uk

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on September 11, 2013January 8, 2016
  • Cruise reviews

Before starting my shipmonk.co.uk blog, I wrote many articles for metro.co.uk – the website of the newspaper where I am deputy editor. I still occasionally do cruise stories in print and online for them. My […]

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