10 Night Cruise from Barcelona

About this cruise

This one leaves Barcelona on July 15, 2027 and spends 10 nights visiting Marseille, Santa Margherita Ligure and Civitavecchia (Rome), with additional stops along the Western Mediterranean at a pace where every day has something going on but there's always time to just sit and watch the water too. You wind up in Piraeus (Athens), so it's worth planning a night or two there. There's a stretch of back-to-back port days, so those days are busy, but the sea days around them give you time to recharge. The Western Mediterranean route takes in France, Italy, Greece and Türkiye, 4 countries, and the differences show up in the food, the architecture, and the mood. Most ports give you about 11 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, Sun Princess joined the Princess Cruises's lineup in 2024. Still has that new-ship feel. 10 nights is long enough to build a routine on board: favourite restaurant, favourite deck chair, favourite people. It starts to feel like a floating village. If you like having options (restaurants, bars, activities, entertainment), a big ship delivers that. It's peak season, so the weather is at its best and the ship will be full. That's part of the fun. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.