Albania included among the most expensive cruises one can take

TIRANA, April 7 – Forbes Traveler magazine has included Albania among the tourist spots in the world. Albania today, Montenegro tomorrow. Cruise ships move around a lot and so do their rates, rising and falling on the whims of where the ship is going and when. And an ultra-expensive itinerary is often only available a few times a year, maybe even just once.
Antarctica is their single most expensive product, according to Regent Seven Seas President Mark Conroy.
Stein Kruse, president and CEO of Holland America, tells the same story. Antarctica definitely has cachet, he says, and so do Amazon River, Fjords of Norway and Black Sea itineraries.
Mediterranean and Baltics voyages are also coveted these days.
“Although rates may be high, the cost of a luxury cruise to the region is still a much better value when compared to a land stay at a five-star hotel property in Europe,” says David Morris, executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Silversea Cruises.
Newer to the cruise circuits are off-beat ports in Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Macedonia.