01 Dec 2015
Press Release: immediate release: 1 December 2015
Travel Republic Cruise Sets Sail
Online travel agent launches cruise holidays to its 3 million holidaymakers
- First comprehensive cruise offering in the UK from an online travel agent
- Cruising now seen as a mainstream holiday choice
Travel Republic, one of the UK's top online travel agents, is for the first time launching a full range of cruise holidays. With the UK cruise market now accounting for over 10% of all package holidays, and with 1.7 million cruisers departing from the UK each year, cruising can now be considered a mainstream holiday choice.
Travel Republic Cruise will offer a range of exclusive fly cruise holidays at outstanding value for money, as well as providing customers with a wider choice of cruises from all the leading cruise lines departing from the UK, including, P&O Cruises and Royal Caribbean. Popular Fly-Cruise destinations including the Mediterranean, Florida, Caribbean and Asia are also offered.
Travel Republic have partnered with Imagine Cruising, one of the leading experts in Cruise and Stay Holidays in the UK. Imagine Cruising will power the cruise.travelrepublic.co.uk website and, using their expertise, provide Travel Republic customers with cruise holidays from all the leading cruise lines to popular cruise destinations around the world.
Cruises will be available to book from the 1st December. To support the launch Travel Republic Cruise will offer a range of exclusive cruise holidays for 2016 including;
Majorca Stay & Mediterranean Cruise with Costa 10nts from £599
Mar-June 2016
Venice Stay & Eastern Mediterranean Cruise with Royal Caribbean 10nts from £799
May-Nov 2016
Dubai & The Emirates Cruise with MSC 7nts from £599
Jan-Mar 2016
Barbados Stay & Caribbean Cruise with Carnival 10nts from £1,199
May-Nov 2016
Singapore Stay & Asia Cruise with Princess 10nts from £899
Barcelona Stay & Mediterranean Cruise with MSC 8nts from £599 (Free upgrade to Balcony Cabin)
Apr-Nov 2016
Luxury Mediterranean Cruise and Stay with Cunard Line 10nts from £899
Jul-Oct 2016
All holidays include Flights and Transfers
Ian Simmonds, Managing Director for Travel Republic comments, “Travel Republic aims to make it possible for everybody to have the holiday they really want, so cruise is an exciting addition to our holiday offering, as it supports our aim to offer more breadth and choice to our holidaymakers. Our new range of exclusive Cruise and Stay holidays are very competitively priced, and the exclusive deals will appeal to Travel Republic customers.”
Travel Republic cruises can be viewed on their website www.cruise.travelrepublic.co.uk and booked via a specialist Travel Republic Cruise team on 0800 840 5932.
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Notes to Editors:
About Travel Republic:
With more than three million holidaymakers booking annually through their websites in the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Italy, Travel Republic is one of the largest and most well-established online travel agents in Europe. They have been successfully helping people book their hotels, flights and other travel arrangements for over 10 years.
About Imagine Cruising
Imagine Cruising are one of the leading cruise specialists in the UK. As well as acting as a cruise agent selling cruises departing from the UK, Imagine are experts in creating tailor made cruise holidays including flights, hotels and tours to worldwide destinations. Imagine are members of ABTA and ATOL protected.
Press Contacts:
Maxine Soghmanian
PR Manager Travel Republic
0208 974 7201
07989 423162
msoghmanian@travelrepublic.co.uk
Peter Shanks
Development Director Imagine Cruising
07785 381902
