Mini Cruise Destination

A mini-cruise offers holidaymakers a great opportunity to experience life at sea, and to visit new destinations. There are a wide choice of mini-cruises available, and most depart from UK ports to Norway, Holland, Ireland, Guernsey, Denmark and around the British Isles.

You can also book a mini-cruise from Portsmouth to Bilbao, Spain, which includes a coach tour on arrival, where passengers can discover Spanish life in the port of Santurtzi. If you want to start your mini-cruise from further afield, there are plenty of trips that start from Sweden, Denmark and France, and you can meet your cruise ship at your destination of choice. Visit the House of Anne Frank in Amsterdam, where Anne and her family hid for two years from the Nazis in WW2. Culture vultures and art aficionados should take a trip to the Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum, which will keep you occupied for hours. Amsterdam also boasts over 1,200 pubs, and if you want to know more about how beer is produced, the Heineken Brewery is well worth a visit. Take a city and harbour tour of Copenhagen, Denmark to see the best of this fascinating city.The Stroget is the world´s longest pedestrian street and is home to a fascinating range of shops and boutiques. Copenhagen´s National Gallery exhibits European and Danish paintings, and sculptures from the 15th Century onwards, and Kronborg Castle, which was mentioned in Shakespeare´s Hamlet, is another fascinating site in this vibrant city. Any visit to Oslo would not be complete without a trip to Frognerparken, the large park in the centre of the city with some incredible statues and sculptures. The islands which make up the Oslo fjord are also worth visiting, and are accessible by ferry or boat. Another highlight of Oslo is the Viking Ship Museum, which is home to a reconstructed Viking ship, and offers a detailed history of Norway and the Vikings. A variety of Norwegian Folk Museums are situated close by.