UK Blog Post: Have you ever taken a mini-cruise?

[LauraS]

In this curious limbo period between Christmas and New Year, our thoughts naturally turn to cruising (what else?) and what’s in store for next year. So this handy guide to mini-cruises on Virgin Holidays Cruises’ site caught my eye. A mini-cruise is a perfect taster if you’ve never tried a cruise but are thinking about [...]

 

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[BORDER REIVER]

We did a 4 day mini-cruise on Queen Victoria in December a couple of years ago. It was too rough to go to France, but we called at Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. It's a perfect way to try out cruising and we thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it - even the excursions were exceptional in that the weather was as good as it gets in December.

[Ray66]

Our first cruise, on the QM2, was 4 days to Hamburg and back to Southampton.

 

We've since done two more 4 day cruises on the Queen Victoria.

 

The recent two day cruise to Cherbourg on the QM2 had some bad reviews but I think it would be a good way of trying out one of the suites which would be too expensive on a longer cruise. If I did that I would stay on board all the time.

 

On such a short cruise though, you would be unpacking the first day and packing again the next!