Football presenter David Jones, a panellist for the World Top 100, reveals his favourite play-and-stay trips of 2025

Exciting ways to get away from it all

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For sun, sea and the chance to step back to the Nineties and Noughties, set sail on a music-themed cruise

A cruise? Give it 30 years. That was the conclusion of our editor-in-chief, Claire Sanderson, before she climbed aboard a ship designed with family harmony in mind. Here, she explains how she became a cruising convert