Mediterranean Cruise

Istanbul – Rome - Civitavecchia We meet at Istanbul Airport 3 hours before the flight and complete our check-in procedures, then take our flight to Rome (FCO) Airport. After landing, we transfer to the 5* MSC Grandiosa.

We will spend the entire day at sea and enjoy the facilities offered on board. You may have breakfast, lunch, and dinner either in the buffet restaurant, where specialist chefs freshly prepare options for a range of tastes, or at your reserved table in the table-service restaurant. During the day, you can join yoga and fitness classes, use the outdoor tennis, volleyball, and basketball courts, or work out in the gym, equipped with state-of-the-art Technogym machines and bodybuilding equipment. After dinner, you can spend time in the ship’s lively bars and cafés and listen to live music, attend theatre performances featuring Broadway-style musicals, or try your luck in the casino. Dinner and overnight stay on board.

After breakfast on board, guests who wish may join the optional Valldemossa and Palma de Mallorca tour, organized by our guide at an extra cost. We begin our tour by discovering the city of Palma de Mallorca, a tourism centre with a population of 300 thousand. Our stops include exterior views of Bellver Castle, dating from the 14th century; the renowned Palma Cathedral, dating from the 13th century; and the nearby Royal Palace of La Almudaina. We then proceed to the historic Arena and visit one of Mallorca’s well-known pearl workshops with guests who wish to do so. The next stop on our tour will be Valldemossa, located in the southwest of the island. After exploring the area and taking plenty of photographs, we return to our ship. Dinner and overnight stay on board.

Barcelona | Barcelona City Tour After breakfast, guests who wish to join our optional Barcelona city tour, organized as an extra by our guide, may do so. Our city tour in Barcelona, one of the most beautiful metropolises in Europe, will begin with our private coach waiting for us at the port. Among the places we will see are La Rambla Street, the Cristoforo Colombo Monument, Maremagnum Marina, Barceloneta Beach, the Olympic area and port, Catalunya Square, Passeig de Gracia avenue, where Gaudi's houses have been turned into an open-air street museum, and Sagrada Familia, his most iconic work. During the tour, we will ascend Montjuic hill to take photos of the scenery. Following free time for shopping on La Rambla, we will return to our ship. Dinner and overnight stay on board.

Cannes (Côte d'Azur) | Monte Carlo Tour & Cannes After breakfast on board, guests who wish may join the optional Monte Carlo Tour & Cannes excursion organized by our guide (extra). Our tour will begin in Monte Carlo, one of the richest countries in the world. We will then return to Cannes. Of course, in this city whose name is synonymous with the Cannes Film Festival, one of France's most important festivals, we will also see the Festival Palace among the places we visit. Cannes, one of the world's leading centers of luxury consumption, is a city that delights visitors in every season with its shopping streets running parallel to the Mediterranean, charming side streets, and cafés.

Genoa | Portofino Tour After breakfast, our guests who wish to do so may join the Portofino tour that the ship will organize as an optional/extra excursion. We will take the PORTOFINO tour to a fairytale-like village that has had songs written about it. Our bus departing from Genoa will first go to the town of Santa Maria Liguria. From here, we will transfer to Portofino by local vehicles. We will have the chance to get to know this beautiful town more closely. On this tour, which will last approximately 5 hours, we will see unforgettable places. At the end of our tour, we return to the ship. Dinner and overnight stay on the ship.

La Spezia | Florence & Pisa After the breakfast we will have on board, our guests who wish may join the Florence & Pisa Tour, which our guide will organize as an extra. We head to Pisa, which in the 12th century held the trade supremacy in the Western Mediterranean and is famous for its Leaning Tower, considered one of the most important historic monuments in the world. During the panoramic tour, some of the places to visit will be the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Cathedral, the Baptistery and Piazza dei Miracoli. After the tour, we return to our ship.

Rome (FCO) – Istanbul After enjoying breakfast on board, we will transfer to Rome (FCO) Airport.