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Top 10 new cruises from P&O Cruises 2025 & 2026 winter holiday collection

P&O Cruises latest news revealed a very exciting holiday update as the line unveiled its 2025/26 winter collection. Here are some of the best on sale now.

P&O Cruises 2025 and 2026 offerings are sparking that holiday feeling after the cruise line revealed that not only is it adding 12 new ports of call with its latest announcement but amazing P&O Cruises deals are up for grabs too.

The new collection of P&O Cruises holidays for winter 2025/26 is on general sale from October 18, 2023, and there’s something in it for everyone.

What are the new P&O Cruises 2025 holidays?

Want something novel? Ports not visited for five or more years by the British brand include Los Angeles, Melbourne, and Bali, as well as Bodø in Norway and Dunedin in New Zealand.

Destination lovers have reasons to cheer too – according to the P&O Cruises latest news, holidays will include additional extended stays in port so travellers can enjoy more activities and culture in the destination.

Fancy sun, sea and sand? P&O Cruises’ new Caribbean fly-cruise holidays in winter 2025/26 boast new itineraries featuring calls in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Grand Turk. Or perhaps you want to head south? P&O Cruises ships Azura will visit maiden port of call, Tangier, Morocco on its Canary Islands fly-cruise itinerary.

If it’s winter wonderlands you’re after, in December 2025 Aurora will depart on an extended 14-night northern lights cruise, calling at medieval towns set against spectacular landscapes on a quest for the magical phenomenon.

In the same month P&O Cruises ship Arcadia will head off on a special Christmas markets cruise with overnight calls to Hamburg, Copenhagen, Oslo and Amsterdam for those eager to get into the festive spirit.

What are the new P&O Cruises 2026 holidays?

Globetrotters looking to really get away from it all are in a treat with P&O Cruises 2026 too.

In January 2026, for the first time in nine years, Arcadia will set sail on a 100-night Eastern Circumnavigation World Cruise calling at 28 destinations comprising Dubai, Singapore, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Dunedin, Auckland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

What’s more, also in January 2026, P&O Cruises ship Aurora will embark on a 75-night Grand Tour around South America, adding 10 additional days compared to previous years to explore the continent, including returning to São Paulo (from Santos) for the first time in 10 years.

What are the latest P&O Cruises deals?

And if these journeys of discovery weren’t enough to get you hot under the collar, P&O Cruises is also throwing in some fabulous cruise deals!

If you book December 4, 2023, you can save 10 percent on applicable winter 2025/26 Select Price holidays. What’s more, if you purchase a Select Price or Early Saver holiday departing between October 2025 and March 2026, you can bag a 10 percent deposit offer!

Furthermore, members of the P&O Cruises loyalty programme can relish a further 5 percent exclusive discount on selected cruise holidays.

We’ve rounded up 10 top-notch P&O Cruises 2025 and 2026 sailings to whet your whistle…

New itineraries for P&O Cruises 2025 & 2026

1.

Barbados to Barbados

Duration: 14 nights
Where: Barbados | Grenada | Curacao | Oranjestad | Ocho Rios | Grand Turk | Tortola | Dominica | Barbados
Ship: Britannia
Price: From £1,399 pp*

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Grenada

2.

Barbados to Barbados

Duration: 14 nights
Where: Barbados | St.Maarten | Antigua | Kingstown | St.Vincent | Grenada | St Lucia | St Lucia | Curacao | Oranjestad | Barbados
Ship: Britannia
Price: From £2,108 pp*

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St Lucia pitons Caribbean

3.

Northern Lights

Duration: 14 nights
Where: Southampton | Åndalsnes | Bodø | Narvik | Tromsø | Haugesund | Southampton
Ship: Aurora
Price: From £1,187pp*

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See the Northern Lights in Tromsø

4.

Grand Tour around South America

When: January 2026
Duration: 75 nights
Where: Southampton | Gran Canaria | St Vincent | Recife | Salvador | Búzios | Rio de Janeiro | São Paulo (from Santos) | Montevideo | Port Stanley | Punta Arenas | Santiago (from San Antonio) | Coquimbo | Arica | Lima (from Callao) | Manta | Fuerte Amador | transit Panama Canal | Cartagena | Aruba | Grenada | Barbados | St Lucia | Antigua | St Maarten | Ponta Delgada | Southampton
Ship: Aurora
Price: From £6,249 pp*

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colombia

5.

Eastern Circumnavigation World Cruise

When: January 2026
Duration: 100 nights
Where: Southampton | Seville | Valletta | Transit Suez Canal | Sharm El Sheikh | Muscat | Dubai | Colombo | Penang | Kuala Lumpur (Port Klang) | Singapore | Singapore | Bali (Benoa) | Perth (Fremantle) | Adelaide | Melbourne | Sydney, Australia | Sydney, Australia | Dunedin | Wellington | Napier | Auckland | Tauranga (Rotorua) | Lautoka | Suva | Oahu |San Francisco | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | Manzanillo, Cuba | Panama Canal | Curacao |Barbados | Ponta Delgada | Southampton
Ship: Arcadia
Price: From £9,599 pp*

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Dubai UAE

6.

Christmas Markets

When: December 3, 2025
Duration: 14 nights
Where: Southampton | Hamburg | Copenhagen | Oslo | Amsterdam |Southampton
Ship: Arcadia
Price: From £1,149 pp*

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christmas-market

7.

Canary Islands

Duration: 8 nights
Where: Valetta, Malta | Cartagena | Tangier | Lanzarote | Tenerife.
Ship: Azura
Price: From £573 pp*

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Valletta Malta

8.

Caribbean

Duration: 14 nights
Where: Barbados | Martinique | St Kitts | Tortola | St.Maarten | Antigua | Grenada | St.Lucia | Barbados
Ship: Arvia
Price: From £1,518 pp*

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Barbados shore Caribbean cruise

9.

Caribbean

Duration: 14 nights
Where: Antigua | Grenada | St.Lucia | Barbados (overnight in port)| Martinique | St Kitts | Tortola | St.Maarten | Antigua
Ship: Arvia
Price: From £1,498 pp*

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Antigua pink houses Caribbean cruise

10.

Spain, Portugal and Canary Islands

Duration: 14 nights
Where: Southampton | Madeira | Tenerife | Gran Canaria | Lanzarote | Seville | Lisbon (overnight in port) || Southampton
Ship: Iona
Price: From £714 pp*

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madeira Camara de Lobos

*All prices quoted are for the Early Saver fare type and are based on an inside cabin.

Author

Harriet Mallinson

Sailawaze Editor Harriet has been a travel writer for nine years and specialised in cruising for more than three. Globetrotting highlights include flyboarding in Malaga, exploring waterfalls in Belize, ziplining in Costa Rica, truffle-hunting in Tuscany and whale-watching in Iceland. Next on her cruise bucket list is Antarctica – or any opportunity to see the Northern Lights!

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Published 17.10.23