Voyages to Antiquity 2014 on sale
Voyages to Antiquity last week rolled out its program of Mediterranean cruises for 2014.
The roster includes an all-new spring Grand Voyage from Athens to Istanbul through Egypt and four sailings to the Black Sea region.
Two different routes between Istanbul and Athens can be combined in "the most in-depth exploration of the Greek Isles and the Aegean available on the market."
The itineraries run from 14 to 29 days, following the footsteps of the Crusades, focusing on Byzantine art, or visiting the antiquities of Greece, Rome, and Egypt.
The company offers travel agent commissions from 10% to 15%, and is "very travel agent friendly," a spokesperson told TravelMole.com. "We look strongly toward our travel agent partners to help fill our ships," he said.
The least expensive trip is a Mediterranean Isles and Ancient Egypt tour running 18 days, beginning at $4,250.
The highest-priced tour, the 29-day Istanbul to Athens, starting at $8,295 including airfare, is designed to take travelers "from the birth of civilization to the Crimean War and some of the greatest sites of antiquity in the Aegean," including Istanbul, Sumela monastery in Trabzon, Batumi, Feodosiya, Yalta, Sevastopol, Odessa, Nessebur, Troy, Kavala, Mount Athos, Thessalonika, Volos, Skiathos, Ephesus & Pergamon, Delos, Crete, Monemvasia, and Nauplia.
Voyages to Antiquity has canceled its Winter Southeast Asia cruise program for this year, after its first season met terrible conditions in the South China Sea, including winds of up to force 10 on the Beaufort scale and ocean swells between 18 and 33 feet, frequently accompanied by torrential rains.
The line is rethinking the program for next year.
By Cheryl Rosen
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