APT & Travelmarvel launches worldwide new year sale 

To assist the commerce capitalise on gross sales throughout Peaks, APT & Travelmarvel has launched its 2024/25 Worldwide New Year Sale, providing the next financial savings on its market-leading journeys and thrilling new product choices, when booked earlier than 28 February 2025*:

• Up to 40% off its stress-free River Cruises in Europe and Asia
• Up to 30% off Small Ship Cruises
• Up to £500pp off new Small Group Journeys, plus free home-to-airport transfers
• Up to £600pp off absolutely inclusive Escorted Tours

Brad Bennetts, APT & Travelmarvel Head of Sales & Business Development, stated: “We are delighted to unveil this year’s Peaks Season campaign, our Worldwide New Year Sale. Offering the trade savings of up to 40% across our market-leading programme of river, yacht and Small Ship Cruises, and our new Small Group Journeys and fully inclusive Escorted Touring, the trade is set for success during this key booking period.”

The New Year Sale gives friends the chance to expertise APT & Travelmarvel’s thrilling new merchandise for much less. These embody beautiful fleet enhancements, corresponding to APT’s new, architect-designed Ostara and Solara, which can elevate ultra-luxury cruising in central Europe in 2025; and Travelmarvel’s MS Estrela which gives a sublime base for the gastronomic cruise by means of Portugal’s Douro Valley.

Also included are the model’s new Small Group Journeys for up to 16 friends in South Africa, Sri Lanka, Japan and India – six new itineraries which were designed to stimulate the senses, deepening friends’ understanding of every vacation spot by evoking the distinctive tastes, smells, textures, sights, and sounds that outline them.

Savings additionally apply to Travelmarvel’s new Small Ship Cruises, with 10 sailings that discover the hidden gems of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands and Istanbul, aboard the all-suite MS Caledonian Sky.

Worldwide New Year Sale financial savings embody:

• New Cruise for 2025: Travelmarvel’s eight-day Highlights of the Danube river cruise from Munich to Budapest (and reverse) prices from £1,695 per particular person (was £2,495, saving £800). The cruise contains return flights; seven nights of lodging on a five-star rated Travelmarvel Contemporary River Ship; sightseeing, 20 meals and tender drinks, beer and native wine throughout lunch and dinner onboard^. Guests may also get to take pleasure in Travelmarvel’s new leisure and wellness programme, bringing ‘ocean-style’ actions to a river cruise viewers for the primary time.

• New Ship: Travelmarvel’s eight-day Douro Discovery river cruise, Porto return, prices from £2,495 per particular person (was £3,295, saving £800). Return flights, seven nights of lodging aboard the new MS Estrela, 20 meals and tender drinks, beer and native wine throughout lunch and dinner onboard^. Highlights embody eating at an area quinta, a standard Portuguese vineyard, and studying all in regards to the rising traditions behind the wonderful fortified-wine manufacturing that makes port such a supply of delight to the nation. They may also expertise the fiery artwork of Flamenco with a particular efficiency and discover the beautiful baroque structure that defines the area.

• New Ultra-Luxury Ships: APT’s luxurious, 15-day Magnificent Europe river cruise, Budapest to Amsterdam (and reverse), prices from £4,795 per particular person (was £5,795, saving £1,000). Home-to-airport transfers, return flights, 14-nights of lodging aboard considered one of APT’s new, ultra-luxury river ships, Ostara or Solara, 41 meals and onboard drinks are included within the value^. Highlights embody a non-public cocktail reception and recital at Namedy Castle, a non-public efficiency on the Lichenstein’s City Palace within the coronary heart of Vienna, and a lunch accompanied by music from the traditional movie, The Sound of Music, which celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in 2025.

• New Small Group Journeys: Travelmarvel’s 13-day Sensory Marvels of Rajasthan Small Group Journey, Delhi return, prices from £2,995 per particular person (was £3,495, saving £500), plus free home-to-airport transfers. The journey contains lodging, sightseeing and 25 meals^. Highlights embody a ‘Pink City Rickshaw Co.’ tour of Jaipur, an environmentally pleasant e-rickshaw tour of the town as a part of a venture that’s creating sustainable livelihoods and financial independence for 200 native ladies; an area immersion in Jaipur on a go to to an area household’s dwelling, the place you may share a meal in conventional Indian costume; and a romantic night boat cruise in Udaipur.

• Yacht Cruising: Travelmarvel’s eight-day Adriatic Coastal Cruise from Dubrovnik to Zagreb (and reverse) prices from £2,195 per particular person (was £3,195, saving £1,000). With a most of 36 friends aboard, the cruise contains return flights, seven nights of onboard lodging aboard the Princess Eleganza, 17 meals plus tender drinks, beer and native wine throughout onboard lunches and dinners, sightseeing, and loads of time for unbiased exploration^. Highlights embody discovering the medieval Old Town of Dubrovnik, the untouched island of Vis, the pure great thing about Krka National Park and its waterfalls, and diving straight into the pristine waters of the Adriatic from the yacht’s very personal swim platform.

•  All-Suite Luxury Sailing in Asia: APT’s luxurious, 15-day Vietnam & Cambodia Highlights river cruise, Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City (and reverse), prices from £4,995 per particular person (was £6,345, saving £1,350). Home-to-airport transfers, return flights, 14-nights of lodging aboard APT’s all-suite Mekong Serenity river ship, 41 meals, and onboard drinks are included within the value^. Highlights embody witnessing dawn at Angkor Wat, being welcomed backstage at Phare Circus to satisfy the performers, and visiting Opportunities of Development by means of Art, a OneTomorrow companion which offers free English schooling and an introduction to pc abilities to kids residing in Siem Reap’s distant villages, with the purpose of enhancing their future employment alternatives.