6 of the best solo cruise lines for single passengers in 2024

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Cruises are a well-trodden vacation possibility, providing the alternative to discover numerous elements of the world whereas having fun with the consolation on a lodge on the seas.

And although a cruise with a major different or the relaxation of the household is a perennially well-liked selection, fewer folks assume of taking the solo possibility and reserving a cruise alone.

But these holidays may be simply as rewarding and pleasing, supplying you with as a lot flexibility as you need together with alternatives to fulfill like-minded travellers and see some of the world’s most interesting vacationer locations.

Daily actions will hold you entertained whereas onboard, whereas organised excursions or solo journeys allow you to see an impressive vary of cities and cities at your leisure. Solo-specific occasions imply that assembly different travellers is as straightforward as sitting right down to dinner, when you’ll have a cushty solo cabin to return again to at the finish of every day.

If you’ve bought the itch to e book, we’ve rounded up a range of the best cruise liners for single passengers under.

Riviera Travel

Riviera Travel operates river cruises round the world, with locations so far as Egypt and Vietnam. Nevertheless, the focus is on European river cruises, with loads of packages to the Rhine, Rhone, Seine, Douro and Danube on provide. Packages embrace return flights, airport transfers and all meals onboard, with an in depth vary of excursions and actions together with guided excursions and on-board folks music reveals.

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European river cruises are the solely possibility that Riviera affords for solo travellers, with seven routes that cowl the continent’s predominant rivers. Prices embrace all the identical options as an ordinary reserving – akin to excursions, onboard meals and Wi-Fi – however with spacious single occupancy cabins and welcome dinners that can assist you meet folks. Solo bookings additionally embrace the ‘superior’ drinks bundle, which supplies friends an in depth choice of alcoholic drinks obtainable each at lunch and between 6pm and midnight. The Rhine and Moselle bundle is their most inexpensive, beginning in Cologne and taking you to lovely cities like Koblenz and Rudesheim.

Virgin Voyages

Virgin Voyages affords adult-only cruises full of an enormous vary of actions, from morning yoga lessons to night cabaret. There are loads of solo cabins – their inaugural ship, Scarlet Lady, has 46 – and itineraries embrace solo meet-ups, actions and excursions with loads of alternatives to fulfill different single travellers.

Packages embrace meals, drink and actions as commonplace. With solely 4 ships in the fleet, your selection of vacation spot is barely extra restricted, although you’ll be able to nonetheless go to picturesque areas in Europe, the Caribbean, elements of Southern Asia and Australia. The Southeastern Caribbean Isles bundle will take you on a roundtrip from Puerto Rico, stopping in Guadeloupe, Barbados, St Lucia and Antigua.

Tauck

Tauck claims to have specialised in solo journey for over 90 years, and right this moment this interprets to particular solo financial savings and no single complement on European river cruises. Travellers trying to see the continent ‘solo style’ can profit from financial savings of as much as £750, and can take pleasure in extra trendy, modern ships with fewer friends for an total extra luxurious expertise. Trips cowl Europe’s predominant waterways, and costs embrace all meals, drink, actions and shore excursions. Choose the Yuletide bundle between Brussels and Amsterdam for a festive expertise at some of the best Christmas markets – and prettiest waterways – on the continent.

Ambassador Cruise Line

Ambassador is a brand new cruise line the place journeys start in cities round the UK, together with Liverpool, Belfast, Dundee and Bristol. Both Ambience and Ambition have 89 devoted cabins put aside for solo travellers, obtainable “at a special single supplement against the equivalent twin fare based on selected single cabin categories”. The operator journeys to an unlimited vary of locations contemplating there are solely two ships in its fleet, with voyages going so far as Singapore, Brazil and New Zealand.

Ambassador’s cruises include an in depth programme of actions for solo passengers, together with a ‘Welcome Get Together’ and guided excursions along with different solo travellers. Other onboard leisure ranges from West End-style reveals to comedy nights, with loads of alternatives to fulfill others. If cruising throughout winter, go to Norway to see wondrous fjords and (presumably) the aurora borealis, with the Land of the Northern Lights bundle.

Oceania

Oceania has made appreciable funding in offering choices for solo travellers, with its latest ship, Vista, containing six 270-square-foot solo cabins that embrace balconies, premium lounge entry and a welcome bottle of champagne. It has fitted its older ships with 14 ‘Solo Staterooms’, all of which provide magnificent sea views.

Oceania voyages make it straightforward to fulfill like-minded travellers with solo meet-and-greet occasions, massive blended eating tables, blended shore excursions and single-traveller actions akin to artwork lessons. Destinations vary from the Mediterranean and Scandinavia to South Africa and the tropics, that means solo travellers have alternatives to see a big portion of the world alone. Book the 14-day Miami to Tenerife cruise to expertise Mediterranean attraction and Caribbean magnificence in late March. 

Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean say that they don’t “have specific pricing for single occupancy” cabins, however that they do provide single cabins on some of their ships, together with Brilliance of the Seas, Anthem of the Seas, Quantum of the Seas, Ovation of the Seas, Harmony of the Seas and Spectrum of the Seas. These cruises “can be reserved by someone cruising alone without the usual single supplement fee”, they usually cowl an in depth vary of locations, from Europe to the Caribbean and Singapore to Australia.

Passengers can reserve inside studio staterooms, digital balcony staterooms and tremendous studio ocean view stateroom with balconies, giving them between 101 and 199 sq. ft of house. Everything else can be the identical as ordinary, that means you’ll be able to take pleasure in the identical advantages as each different friends with out paying a premium. If departing from the UK, the solely excursions obtainable take you round Europe; the most in depth is the Mediterranean Cities bundle, overlaying Seville, Sardinia, Rome, Lisbon and extra.

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