14 nights - Aegean Sea and Bosporus - from/to Heraklion

About this cruise

The kind of trip where you lose track of what day it is, and nobody cares. 14 nights from Heraklion on May 14, 2027, visiting Istanbul, Thessaloniki and Volos, with additional stops along the Eastern Mediterranean. 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. It's a proper Eastern Mediterranean tour: 3 countries, from Türkiye to Italy. Most ports give you about 12 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, From casual buffets to proper sit-down restaurants, Mein Schiff 5 has 11 dining spots on board, most of them included. 14 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. A spring departure helps too: decent weather and a calmer feel at each port. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.