Fred Olsen Cruises will be using the port next year to springboard two cruises from the docks, as cruising from “Falmouth to Falmouth” returns.

This will be the largest ever cruise ship to use Falmouth as a turn around port for cruises. Unlike previous vessels that operated from the docks for this type of cruising Boudicca is nearly 700 feet in length, carries nearly 900 passengers and cruises at over 20 knots.

Drystan Jones, A&P Falmouth port operations director said: “Fred Olsen Cruises are important customers to the Port of Falmouth. We look forward to welcoming Boudicca and its passengers next year. These cruises will give people in the southwest, particularly those in Cornwall, the golden opportunity to cruise from their “front doors”. For people joining Boudicca from other parts of the UK, Falmouth is a great place to begin or end a cruise, with plenty of good local accommodation, a harbour town, estuary and beaches to explore and a national rail link direct to the docks station.”

The 28,000 tons Boudicca will start her 12 nights “Canary Islands and Portugal Spring Break” cruise from Falmouth on April 12 2016 to Funchal, Madeira, Santa Cruz, La Palma, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Arrecife, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands before returning to Falmouth via Lisbon.

Boudicca will dock here on Sunday April 24 where she will embark passengers for her 10 nights Land's End to John O'Groats cruise.

The ship will call at Liverpool; cruise past Fingal's Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, before calling at Kirkwall, Invergordon, Scrabster and Tobermory. On the return leg to Falmouth the ship calls at Belfast.

Information about these two cruises can be obtained by calling 01326 312620 or freephone 0800 652 3452 or email holidays@newellstravel.co.uk.