Newmarket Holidays has expanded its tour and cruising collection with a new holiday exploring Alaska and the Californian coast.
The escorted tour operator claims it has become the first operator to combine these two contrasting destinations in one package.
Newmarket has also revamped its popular Deep South Rhythms, Key West & Bahamas Cruise itinerary, adding extra nights and new stops.
Alaska Cruise & America’s Great West is a 17-day land and sea journey along America’s west coast, starting with five days of visits to Santa Monica, Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Santa Barbara and San Francisco.
Guests then board Carnival Luminosa (pictured) to cruise through the North Pacific to the Alaskan capital of Juneau.
This is followed by visits to the historic Gold Rush town of Skagway, Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska’s first city of Ketchikan, and a final stop at Prince Rupert, British Columbia’s ‘City of Rainbows’, before sailing back to San Francisco.
Prices start from £3,510, including five nights’ room-only hotel accommodation, 10 nights’ full-board accommodation on Carnival Luminosa, excursions, tours, transfers, internal flights and return flights to Heathrow, with departures in August and September 2026.
Meanwhile, the expanded 2027 version of the Deep South Rhythms, Key West & Bahamas Cruise itinerary has two extra days in Nashville.
On the 17-day tour, clients explore the American South before boarding Carnival Liberty for a seven-night voyage across the Gulf of Mexico, stopping at Key West and continuing into the northern Caribbean for the Bahamas, to visit Nassau and then Grand Bahama to see the exclusive resort of Celebration Key, opened by Carnival Cruise Lines in 2025.
Prices start from £3,924 and include eight nights’ room-only hotel accommodation, seven nights’ full-board accommodation aboard Carnival Liberty, excursions, transfers, internal flights and return flights to Heathrow, with departures in April 2027.
Hayley Morris, head of trade sales and partnerships, said: “Tour and cruise is becoming an increasingly popular product for us, with guests loving the mix of immersive onshore escorted tours followed by relaxing cruises that provide a fascinating contrast to the early part of their holiday.
“We’re thrilled to be the first operator to bring Alaska and the Great West coast together in one package, in a combination we think will prove a real winner for agents, and the changes we’ve made to Deep South Rhythms make an already popular tour even better.”