Azamara Cruises has unveiled its 2027 Overland Experiences: 18 curated multi-day land journeys across seven countries that let guests leave their ship mid-cruise — for the Terracotta Warriors, the temples of Angkor, or an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora — and seamlessly rejoin it at a later port.
How it works
Each overland journey is fully coordinated by the line: premium hotels, transport including internal flights where needed, guided touring and select meals, all arranged so the land adventure slots into the cruise rather than replacing it.
The 2027 collection emphasises small-group touring, and Azamara says availability is limited, with early booking encouraged.
Shandra Stoeterau, the line’s director of land product development, says the experiences “invite our guests to venture beyond the port” — which is a fair summary of the whole pitch.
The headline journeys
Three stand out in the 2027 collection. Guests on the 18-night Pacific Islands cruise departing 5 January 2027 (cruise fares from £3,159 per person on Azamara’s UK site) can add a three-day, two-night stay in an overwater bungalow at Hotel Le Bora Bora by Pearl Resorts.
On the 19-night Southeast Asia sailing from 14 March 2027 (from £5,459), a five-day expedition sweeps from Vientiane and the riverside temples of Luang Prabang in Laos to the streets of Hanoi.
And on the 14-night East Asia cruise from 2 April 2027 (from £3,809), a five-day China overland takes in the Terracotta Warriors at Xi’an, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven.
The overland packages themselves are priced separately on top of the cruise fare, bookable via travel agents or Azamara directly.
Why it matters for UK cruisers
Azamara’s four small ships trade on ‘Destination Immersion’ — long port days, overnight stays, and fares that bundle drinks, gratuities and even self-service laundry — and the overland collection extends that logic to places no ship can reach.
For UK travellers these are committed long-haul fly-cruises, so the sums need doing carefully: flights to the embarkation port, the cruise fare, and the overland add-on all stack up, and as our guide to finding genuine cruise deals argues, it’s the total cost of the holiday that matters, not any single headline number.
But for the trip-of-a-lifetime bracket — seeing the Great Wall and cruising Asia’s coast in one itinerary without organising a single transfer yourself — this is precisely the sort of thing that justifies the small-ship premium.
It’s also one more entry in the luxury sector’s defining trend of the season: going deeper, not just further.
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