Mediterranean Grand Tour – Riviera & Lisbon

About this cruise

This one leaves Marseille on May 4, 2026 and spends 10 nights visiting Málaga, Gibraltar and Lisbon, 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. 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 4 countries along the Western Mediterranean coast: Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal and Italy. Most ports give you about 8 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, MSC Opera has 4 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. A spring departure helps too: decent weather and a calmer feel at each port. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.