Themed sailings, experiential cruises; call them what you will, more travelers are going all in on an up close and personal experience with destinations. Still, healthy can start on the ship as well. Let’s explore this notion of healthy & active cruise options a little bit.

Princess Cruises: A Healthy Choice As Well

Princess Cruises has been recognized by SHAPE magazine as a winner in its fifth annual Healthy Travel Awards for the second consecutive year, recognizing the cruise line’s fleetwide and state-of-the-art Lotus Spa and Fitness Centers, and family friendly offerings like the Glacier Bay National Park Junior Ranger Program in Alaska.

The SHAPE Healthy Travel Awards, featured on shape.com, represent the best wellness hot spots and programs to relax, refuel, get inspired, and reconnect while on vacation. Award categories include the best in hotel gyms, restaurants, and cruises, as well as healthiest amenities and family getaways.

Also popular, golf-oriented cruises.

No, not this kind, keep reading.

Azamara Adds Golf Cruises To Die For

Royal Caribbean family member Azamara Club Cruises (reciprocal on past guest benefits) is moving along on its partnership of eight years with PerryGolf™, the international leader in luxury golf travel.

Highlights of the upcoming 2020/2021 itineraries (a total of 24 worldwide golf voyages) include:

• PerryGolf staff members onboard and onsite at each golf venue to organize and plan every aspect of the golf experience
• Green fees and confirmed starting times including shared use of electric golf cart (or caddies at many venues in the British Isles)
• Daily golf pairings arranged in advance, allowing guests to meet and play golf with new friends (or to play with their own foursome should they prefer)
• All transfers to and from the scheduled golf courses in luxury air-conditioned motor coaches, ensuring maximum flexibility in transportation timings
• Guests’ golf equipment managed by PerryGolf from start to finish of golf voyage, set up and awaiting on golf carts in advance of guests’ arrival at each golf course, and packed up and transported back to the ship at the end of each round
• Practice range golf balls
• Box lunch at each golf course including post round open bar for select standard beers, wines and spirits
• Onboard Golf Group social events, including welcome and farewell cocktail parties, to which all accompanying non-golfing guests are also most cordially invited
• Casual tournament format with awards on one day.  Ship Senior Officers in attendance at Awards Party
• All gratuities for golf related staff including drivers and golf bag handling staff

25 of the courses ranked among the world’s top 100.

European Waterways 2020 Experiential Travel Cruises

Speaking of golf, European Waterways has some of those as well.

Experiential travel is booming. People don’t just want to see.  They want to do!  European Waterways is meeting this growing demand by adding four new themed cruises for 2020 that highlight the whisky and world class golf courses of Scotland, the boutique wineries of France and the music of Italy.

Cruises eligible for cabin bookings include the

• April 5, 2020 Whisky Trail cruise aboard the Scottish Highlander 
• April 26, 2020, Golf Cruise aboard the Spirit of Scotland, both on Scotland’s Caledonian Canal
• April 12, 2020 Wine Appreciation Cruise aboard L’Impressionniste in Burgundy, France
• August 16, 2020 Opera Cruise aboard La Bella Vita, which sails out of Venice.