Crystal Cruises Sails to Travel Publications’ Top Destinations

Crystal Cruises is adding more world’s best destinations to its roster by sailing to most of the top destinations worldwide as chosen by readers of Conde Nast Traveler and Travel+Leisure magazines. In its published itineraries through early 2014, Crystal will visit eight of Travel+Leisure’s top 10 worldwide destinations; all 10 top islands in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific; plus 70 percent to 100 percent of the top cities shortlisted in the magazine’s seven designated global regions. The ships will also sail to 32 of 37 top coastal (or near coastal) cities currently listed in Condé Nast Traveler’s November “Best in the World” issue.

Among the destinations Crystal is visiting are Bali, Phuket, Tokyo, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh, Singapore, Cyclades (Santorini, Mykonos), Barcelona, Mallorca, Venice, Bruges, Sicily, Madeira, the Shetland Islands, New York City, San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Boston, Honolulu/Hawaiian Islands, Vancouver, Victoria/Vancouver Island, Quebec City, Montréal, Newfoundland, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Puerto Vallarta, Panama City, Los Cabos, Roatán, Cozumel, St. Barts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, Caymans, the British Virgin Islands, Cape Town, Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Auckland, Moorea, Bora-Bora, Fiji and the Cook Islands.

Via short trips inland, Crystal Adventures, or Extended Land Programs, Crystal travelers can also visit nearly two dozen “best” land-locked destinations, such as Siem Reap (Sihanoukville), Bangkok (Laem Chebang, Hanoi (Hong Gai), Kyoto (Osaka), Beijing (Tianjin), Siena and Florence (Livorno), Seville (Cadiz), Capri (Sorrento), Rome (Civitavecchia), Cuzco (Buenos Aires), Lima (Callao), Santiago (Valparaíso), Galápagos (Guayaquil), Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Ashdod), Cairo (Alexandria), Marrakech (Agadir), and the Great Barrier Reef (Cairns).