Ancient Trade Winds – Istanbul & Alexandria

About this cruise

You won't run out of things to do on a trip this long, but you also won't feel like you have to do any of them. 21 nights from Piraeus (Athens) on November 7, 2027, visiting Mykonos, Istanbul and Kusadasi, 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. The route threads through 5 countries along the Eastern Mediterranean coast: Greece, Türkiye, Egypt, Israel and Cyprus. Most ports give you about 13 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, Rotterdam has 12 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. By night three you start recognising faces; by night ten you're swapping numbers. That's the magic of a longer sailing. Being shoulder season helps: golden light, comfortable weather, and shorter queues at the popular spots. Good route, good ship, good timing. It all lines up.