Newbie question: When are the British Isles cruises for 2025 and 2026 likely to be announced

[SusieAV8R]

DH and I looked at the 2024 14 night and 12 night British Isles cruises on the QM2 and love the itinerary, but the staterooms we are interested in have sold out.   Can someone give me an idea when those cruises for 2025 and 2026 will likely be released?

[bluemarble]

Traditionally the summer/autumn itineraries two years hence have been announced during early to mid September. Covid caused significant disruptions to those announcement dates the past few years. The announcements of the 2022 through 2024 summer/autumn itineraries were delayed anywhere from early November to mid January.

 

One hopeful sign that Cunard might be getting back to a more typical announcement schedule is that they announced the 2025 World/Exotic itineraries in early March this year. That's back to when those itineraries were typically announced pre-Covid. So perhaps we can expect the rest of the 2025 itineraries to be announced sometime next month.

 

For 2026, we can probably anticipate the winter/spring itineraries to be announced in March 2024 and the summer/autumn itineraries to be announced in September 2024.

[SusieAV8R]

23 hours ago, bluemarble said:

Traditionally the summer/autumn itineraries two years hence have been announced during early to mid September. Covid caused significant disruptions to those announcement dates the past few years. The announcements of the 2022 through 2024 summer/autumn itineraries were delayed anywhere from early November to mid January.

 

One hopeful sign that Cunard might be getting back to a more typical announcement schedule is that they announced the 2025 World/Exotic itineraries in early March this year. That's back to when those itineraries were typically announced pre-Covid. So perhaps we can expect the rest of the 2025 itineraries to be announced sometime next month.

 

For 2026, we can probably anticipate the winter/spring itineraries to be announced in March 2024 and the summer/autumn itineraries to be announced in September 2024.

 

23 hours ago, bluemarble said:

Traditionally the summer/autumn itineraries two years hence have been announced during early to mid September. Covid caused significant disruptions to those announcement dates the past few years. The announcements of the 2022 through 2024 summer/autumn itineraries were delayed anywhere from early November to mid January.

 

One hopeful sign that Cunard might be getting back to a more typical announcement schedule is that they announced the 2025 World/Exotic itineraries in early March this year. That's back to when those itineraries were typically announced pre-Covid. So perhaps we can expect the rest of the 2025 itineraries to be announced sometime next month.

 

For 2026, we can probably anticipate the winter/spring itineraries to be announced in March 2024 and the summer/autumn itineraries to be announced in September 2024.

Thank you so much for your detailed response, bluemarble 😃