Trying To Find A No Fly Cruise 2018 That Takes In Venice And Barcelona

[gordiescotland1]

Hi there I am trying without much success to find a cruise that sails from UK and returns to UK that calls at Barcelona and Venice. I can find plenty that stop at one but not the other. Any idea where I can look tried P+O, cunard

[chrissa1]

You’re not wrong, geordie. I would give Barcelona a miss. What with all the troubles there.

[Buenchico]

Sorry, according to the Planet Cruise website (which seeks to list all cruises and then lets you apply filters to narrow down your choices) it's not possible:
https://www.planetcruise.com

The only cruise which takes in both destinations requires you to fly back from Venice. It's a 24-night cruise with Princess Cruises, departing from Dover on 6 October, calling at Le Havre (for Paris), La Coruna, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Sete, Portofino, Livorno (for Florence & Pisa), Monte Carlo, Naples, Messina, Valletta, Kotor, Split, Ravenna and Venice. Unsurprisingly, it's not cheap!
https://www.planetcruise.com/en/princess-cruises/pacific-princess/06-october-2018/129913

The only way that you could use that cruise without flying would be to take the train back from Venice. It takes about 13 or 14 hours to get from Venice to London (and you'd then need to get back to Dover, unless you'd used a train to get to Dover when you set out), with a change at Torino and a cross-Paris transfer.

So it looks like you'll need to re-think your plans but I hope that the Planet Cruise website will still help you anyway. (Obviously, you don't need to book with Planet Cruise; you might find the same cruise offered cheaper elsewhere. Nevertheless, Planet Cruise is a good place to start your searches)

[jno]

you'd be lucky. You're talking about a long cruise there - from somewhere in Britain, down the French and Portuguese coasts, past Gibraltar and up the Spanish coast to Barcelona, then east and round Italy and up into the Adriatic to Venice. Then back again. I can't see that taking much less than three weeks, and three-week cruises aren't common.

[gollob]

It will soon be impossible to go on a cruise to Venice as rhey are going to ban all cruise ships going there due to the damage they do to the enviroment. Expect other destinations to follow in the near future

[jno]

they're not banning ships, they'll just have to berth on the mainland within the lagoon; visitors then go on by train, landing craft or whatever to the city. It'll take longer, but that's all.

[gollob]

Therefore they are banning ships berthing in Venice

[jno]

if you wish. Mestre's pretty much a commuter suburb of Venice.