Ocean Discovery – Marseille, Santa Margherita & Civitavecchia (Rome)

About this cruise

Somewhere around day five the ship stops being transport and starts being home. This 31-night sailing from Barcelona on July 15, 2027 visits Marseille, Santa Margherita Ligure and Civitavecchia (Rome), 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: 5 countries, from France to Montenegro. 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 (2024) is one of the newer ships out there, with current design and recent tech throughout. By night three you start recognising faces; by night ten you're swapping numbers. That's the magic of a longer sailing. It's peak season, so the weather is at its best and the ship will be full. That's part of the fun. You start in Barcelona and come back with stories from France, Italy, Greece, Türkiye and Montenegro.