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A Belgian park inn anaheim break that includes beer sommeliers and bacon-flavoured chocolates might upset the traditionalists, but Antwerp is fighting the twee image of neighbouring Bruges and Brussels to offer something different.
Cruise Maritime Voyages is a budget-friendly UK cruise line that has traditionally park inn anaheim run European cruises from British ports. It now offers further-flung fly-cruises and has attracted a more mature crowd looking for an easy holiday option.
But when I joined a Belgian Treat two-day cruise, the cheap deals and easy access only a 30-minute train ride from London had pulled in a mix of passengers, from a hen party to young couples and older guests.
With a maximum capacity of 800 passengers and classic ocean-liner styling, she s not trying to be an all-singing, all-dancing ship (although the entertainment staff give it a good go in the Marco Polo theatre), but instead offers an old-school cruising experience.
This includes baked Alaska parades, where diners swing napkins above their heads and sing along as dessert is paraded through the dining room, along with multi-course meals that are a good taste of cruising for newcomers.
It s now home to The Chocolate Line a deliciously unique shop run by shocklatiers Dominique Persoone and Fabienne Destaercke. Inside there are giant chocolate animals and truffles in every flavour from cigar to lemongrass, sake to bacon.
Antwerp is also an ideal place to experience Belgium s other famous export: beer. Gone are the days of guessing which tipple to try beer sommeliers are on hand at many of the city s restaurants park inn anaheim to talk visitors through the finer points of enjoying a glass of, say, Duvel or De Koninck.
After a full day, it was time to wave goodbye to the avant-garde city and head back to Tilbury on the dear old lady. We had enjoyed an eccentric modern European park inn anaheim break on a positively old-fashioned cruise ship.
Cruise Maritime Voyages (0844 414 6185, www.cruiseandmaritime.com ) offers a five-night Beautiful Rouen, Antwerp And Amsterdam cruise aboard Marco Polo from Tilbury on October 5, from £399 per person. This includes full-board accommodation sharing park inn anaheim an inner cabin.