The Cruise Lines International Association tells us that October is officially Plan-a-cruise month – the month where cruise-goers book ahead for the best deals on the high seas.

Silversea Cruises

Ultimate luxe cruise company, Silversea has launched 191 stunning new voyages for the 2020-2021 season taking guests to 572 destinations in 84 countries – all bookable from October 1, 2018 – including voyages to New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands, and concurrent crossings of the Northwest and Northeast Passages.

Most newly released voyages will include economy-class air and transfers, and the opportunity to upgrade to business class for a special rate from select gateways. Plus the itinerary collection will include Silversea’s newest ship, Silver Moon, which will set sail on her inaugural voyage in 2020 on an 11 day cruise from Trieste to Civitavecchia, Italy.

Crystal Cruises

If you have 139 days to spare, fancy booking a World Cruise? Crystal Cruises has launched their newest cruise program, Ancient Dynasties & World Wonders, departing Miami for London in January 2021. Sail an epic route through the Caribbean, Hawaiian Islands, South Pacific, and Australia. Continue through Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Far East, the UAE, the Mediterranean, and transit the Panama Canal before visiting Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the wine lands of Western Europe.

Bookings are now open for the entire cruise, or segments of 12 to 21 days focussing on the gulfs of Oman and Aden, Southeast Asia and Vietnam, spring in Japan, and the Arabian Gulf. If you’re booking one of the longer segments (between 111 and 139 days), you’ll be spoilt with private car transfers, a gala dinner, specially curated gifts, and shipboard spending credits up to $2500 per person.

Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours

With three brand new destination brochures, Scenic Luxury Cruises offers all-inclusive six-star luxury ocean voyages combining land and sea itineraries in Europe, the Americas, the Arctic Fjords and Baltic regions, and Antarctica.

Sail from Nassau to Havana on a 13-day Cuba in Depth cruise exploring salsa, music, cigars and the hidden gems of a country opening up to the world.

Take a cruise to Antarctica and immerse yourself in the ethereal beauty of this otherworldly region, or sail on an all-inclusive 21-day Northwest Passage adventure in Greenland through the Canadian Arctic Islands to Alaska.

And for avid explorers, Scenic sails Russia’s White Sea past gulag museums and medieval monasteries, plus plenty of other Arctic itineraries from the Kola Peninsula and Solovetsky Islands to Norway’s famous Fjords.

Seabourn

A luxury cruise with a difference, Seabourn combines cruising with overland excursions so that visitors can hop off one ship and join another. Their world cruise takes the long way ‘round departing from Miami, through the Caribbean, on to Africa and into Arabia, visiting India and stopping in Australia before visiting the South Pacific, and then heading back to the USA, arriving in San Francisco 146 days later.