Gilded Pagoda Drift – Bangkok, Saigon & Hong Kong

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. 42 nights from Tokyo on December 12, 2026, visiting Kagoshima, Naha and Hong Kong, with additional stops along the Southeast Asia. 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 8 countries along the Southeast Asia coast: Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Taiwan. Most ports give you about 11 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, Sapphire Princess has 14 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. 42 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. The timing adds to it: swapping cold weather for sunshine and sea air is the whole pitch for a winter cruise. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.