You can take the Grand Princess<\/a> (above) on a three-day, round-trip cruise from Southampton<\/a>. The ship makes stops in Guernsey (England) and Paris<\/a>. Departure is September 1 and fares start at $499 per person.<\/p>\n Think of it as a weekend in Paris (even if you don't get to Paris until Monday).<\/p>\n If you happen to be going to Australia next year, P&O<\/a> has all kinds of sampler cruises to introduce you (or your companion) to cruising.<\/p>\n The most attractive one we found — at a reseller called cruisesalefinder.com.au<\/a> — was Sydney<\/a> return, three nights sailing off the east coast of Australia for $398 on the Pacific Jewel<\/a>. Besides the attractive pricing, it's a food and wine cruise, leaving March 28 — like late August in North America.<\/p>\n Think of it as a weekend picking grapes in an Australian vineyard.<\/p>\n Last week, we wrote about "sampler" cruises on the West Coast of North America. It also applies on other coasts. If you happen to be going to London after the Olympics are done and you're not sure how you feel about cruising, or you want to take somebody who is a reluctant cruiser, here's… Continue reading Sampler Cruises in Faraway Places<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,19,15],"tags":[317,912,72,35,22,703,374,955,956,126,367,778,957,958,463,959],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-australia","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-european-cruises","tag-grand-princess","tag-last-minute-deals","tag-london","tag-london-olympics","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-po-cruises","tag-princess-cruises","tag-scandinavia-cruises","tag-southampton","tag-sydney","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n\tNorwegian Sun<\/a>
\n\t9 nights
\n\tAugust 2, 2012
\n\tCopenhagen<\/a> (return): Berlin<\/a>, Tallinn<\/a>, St. Petersburg<\/a>, Helsinki<\/a>, Stockholm<\/a>
\n\tInside: $699
\n\tCost per day: $77<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"