Cruise Lines

Still undecided about whether you can afford to book a cruise this year? Here's a selection of this week's best deals.

* Cruise and Maritime Voyages is offering free upgrades on a six-night springtime cruise from Tilbury on April 23, visiting Rouen in France, Guernsey and the Isles of Scilly. Prices from £399 (that's just £66.50 a day) per person cruise-only. See your travel agent, call CMV on 0845 833 9798 or click here.

* Iglu Cruise has seven nights on Princess Cruises' Grand Princess sailing from Southampton to Scandinavia on May 22 from £599 - that's just £85 a night with all food included - and you'll get a free upgrade to a balcony cabin. The cruise visits Bruges, Copenhagen, Helsingborg and Oslo. Call Iglu on 020 8544 6447 or click here.

* Gills Cruise has 14 nights on P&O Cruises' Oceana, sailing from Southampton to the Med on May 1, from £799 per person for an inside cabin. Cruise calls include Gibraltar, Civitavecchia (for Rome), Barcelona and Cadiz. Call 08456 582323 or click here.

* Gills again, but this time with a 10-night cruise on Royal Caribbean International's Independence of the Seas from Southampton to the Canary Islands. Prices start from £749 per person for an inside cabin. Call 08456 582323 or click here.

* Star Clippers has a kids-sail-free offer on a one-week Turkish Riviera cruise roundtrip from Rhodes on the clipper ship Star Flyer on July 24. Kids have to be under 18 to qualify and will have to pay port taxes. Price start from £2,860 for a family of four excluding flights (saving £2,320). See your travel agent, call 0845 200 6145 or click here.

* If river cruising is more your thing, AMAWaterways is offering two free nights' in a five-star hotel in Prague with all bookings for its seven-night Castles and Rivers' cruise from Nuremberg to Trier on the Main, Rhine and Mosel Rivers. Prices start from £1,275 per person departing October 29, including daily excursions and wine with dinner but excluding flights. See your travel agent, call 0808 223 5009 or click here.

* Finally, Voyages of Discovery is offering upgrades from inside to outside cabins on selected cruises (there's one to France in August and one to Libya in October among the selection). Bookings must be made in April. See your travel agent, call 0844 822 0802 or click here.