Experience Holland in bloom

Choose from two different mini cruise packages to experience traditional Holland with its amazing flower festivals and parks, with selected dates departing February until May.

Sailing overnight from Newcastle in a comfortable two berth, inside en-suite cabin, sit back and relax, as you enjoy your cruise on board one of DFDS Seaways’ cruise ferries.

With DFDS Seaways your break truly starts the moment you step on board. Simply check into your cabin and relax. With shops, cinemas, live entertainment, bars and restaurants including à la carte dining and the sumptuous all you can eat Seven Seas Scandinavian buffet, there is something to accommodate all.

Spring Flower Festival, Holland – two-night mini cruise break

Experience the tulip explosion at Wervershoof’s famous flower festival. Feast your eyes on not only the country’s most famous flower, the tulip, but some truly original and creative landscapes designs. This year’s flower festival is themed Spring Melody, because the bright spring flowers are music for the eyes. Enjoy your time wandering the festival’s extensive flower displays before heading back to the cruise ferry for your relaxing cruise home.

Check out the arts and craft fair after wandering around the stunning landscaped gardens and take inspiration for the home with the chance to buy gifts, homeware, art, flowers and plants.

Prices start from £59 per person, based on a 2-berth inside en suite cabin, for two nights and include entrance into the festival and return coach transfers to and from Wervershoof. Departures from Newcastle on 24th and 28th February.

Keukenhof Gardens, Holland – two-night mini cruise break

Take in the Dutch bulbfields as the coach takes you on a scenic journey en-route from the port to Keukenhof gardens. Nowhere else are the flowers and colours of spring more glorious than in the Keukenhof Park. Enjoy a walk through the gardens as the beautiful flowers bloom around you.

Covering over 85 acres the park boasts traditional landscaped gardens, parkland, formal gardens, indoor gardens and glasshouses, and offers different flower shows during the eight-week season, including displays of tulips, hyacinths, orchids and lilies. Combine this with two nights onboard the DFDS Seaways cruise ferry and you are guaranteed to have a relaxing and cultural short break.

Prices start from £72 per person, based on a 2-berth inside en suite cabin, for two nights and include entrance into Keukenhof Gardens and coach transfers. Departures from Newcastle on 31st March, 4th, 14th, 18th, 21st and 28th April and 2nd May 2009.

For more information and reservations, log on to Dfds.co.uk/special.