Grab a bargain in the sails: Cruises for every budget

UNDER £1,500 

Save more than £2,000pp on this luxury Mediterranean holiday, the original fly-cruise price was £3,665pp. You’ll also enjoy $300 credit, soft drinks and all meals.

Dining is the main event on Oceania Cruises’ (0845 505 1920/oceaniacruises.com) ships and Marina has six open-seating restaurants.

There’s a cookery school and tapas bar. The ship docks overnight in both Venice and Barcelona.

En route you’ll call at the walled medieval city of Kotor, Montenegro, and endearing Italian ports: Taormina on Sicily, Sorrento on the Amalfi coast, Civitavecchia for Rome and Livorno for Florence and nearby Tuscany.

A 12-night Glorious Shores cruise from £1,299pp (two sharing), full board, excluding flights. Fly-cruise from £1,499pp. Departs Venice, October 29, 2013.

UNDER £2,500 

The bright lights of New York and the Freedom Trail in Boston, lobster and lighthouses in Maine and Nova Scotia, cruising the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, this is a North American voyage of a lifetime.

What’s more you’ll be taking it during the fall when foliage in the national parks such as Acadia, visited from Halifax, is a scorched rainbow of colours.

Sail from the Big Apple on Cunard’s (0843 374 0000 / cunard.co.uk) Queen Mary 2 and you will spend almost four weeks on board. Formal dinners, ballroom dancing and afternoon tea are served under crystal chandeliers.

A 19-night Grand New England And Canadian Wonders cruise from £2,469pp (two sharing), full board.

Price includes return flights from the UK. Departs New York, October 16, 2014.