Cruise · 4 nights · with Ambassador Cruise Line
Festive Flavours of Honfleur & Cherbourg
A four-night cruise aboard Ambassador’s Ambition tours two Norman ports before returning to London Tilbury just in time for Christmas week.
Highlights
What makes this one worth it
Two nights in Cherbourg harbour
Visit to Honfleur’s old harbour and timbered streets
Cruise round trip from London Tilbury
Winter festive decorations in French ports
About the trip
This short cruise from London Tilbury heads to Cherbourg first, a port with a distinctly maritime feel and a harbour once favoured by transatlantic liners. The ship then crosses to Honfleur, easily missed in the hubbub of Normandy’s better-known sights but quietly rewarding with its cobbled streets, old harbour and timbered houses.
Ambassador Cruise Line’s Ambition provides a compact, straightforward way to see these French ports in early winter, when the festive decorations add a seasonally appropriate touch but the crowds have thinned. Cherbourg’s maritime museum might be the sort of place a well-travelled friend would recommend for a few hours, especially if the weather nudges you ashore.
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