18 nights, Southampton to Quebec City

The itinerary, port by port

12 calls over 18 nights, Southampton to Quebec City. Open any port for my full day-ashore guide, what to see, when to go, and how the day actually runs.

Getting there: Flights to Southampton (LHR) open around September 2026, about 11 months before you sail. I track that window for booked clients and flag it the moment it is worth booking. When to book your flights →

1. Embark
   Southampton

   Southampton is England's main cruise gateway, a working port city on the south coast whose old quarter holds some of the best-preserved medieval town walls and gatehouses in the country, plus a maritime… Port guide →

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   Belfast

   Belfast is the city that built the Titanic, and it has turned that story into the strongest single draw on the Irish Sea. Port guide →

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   Stornoway (Isle of Lewis)

   Stornoway is the main town of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, a Gaelic-speaking island of peat moor, weaving sheds, and a harbor town that feels like the edge of Europe. Port guide →

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   Akureyri

   Akureyri is Iceland's largest town outside the Reykjavik area, set at the head of Eyjafjordur, the country's longest fjord, on the north coast. Port guide →

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   Ísafjörður

   Ísafjörður is the de facto capital of Iceland's remote Westfjords, a fishing town of roughly 3,000 wedged on a sandspit beneath steep table mountains at the end of a long fjord. Port guide →

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   Reykjavik

   Reykjavik is the compact, walkable capital of Iceland and the gateway to the volcanic landscapes inland. Port guide →

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   Sailing the Prins Christian Sund waterway

   Prins Christian Sund is a fjord-and-mountain channel near the southern tip of Greenland, around 60 miles long and at points only about 500 meters wide, that links the Labrador Sea with the Irminger Sea.

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   Paamiut

   Paamiut is a small fishing town of around 1,500 people on Greenland's southwest coast, set at the mouth of the Kuannersooq fjord between mountains and open ocean. Port guide →

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   Qaqortoq (Julianehåb)

   Qaqortoq is South Greenland's largest town, about 3,000 people in brightly painted houses stacked up steep hills around a small harbor. Port guide →

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    St John’s (Newfoundland Island)

    St John's is one of the oldest cities in North America, a working harbor ringed by hills and rows of jellybean-colored houses at the eastern edge of the continent. Port guide →

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    Saint-Pierre

    Saint-Pierre was Martinique's cultural capital, the Paris of the Caribbean, until Mont Pelee erupted on May 8, 1902 and a pyroclastic flow killed roughly 30,000 people in minutes. Port guide →

12. Disembark
    Quebec City

    Quebec City is the walled heart of French North America, and the only fortified city north of Mexico, set on a bluff above the St. Port guide →