Ms. Flood then left for an eight-day cruise to the Caribbean.

The Enchanting Rhine is an eight-day cruise from Amsterdam to Basel aboard the luxurious MS AmaCello.

The eight-day cruise departs Venice in the afternoon and its stops include Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Corfu, Greece.

The trip is a longer preview of the eight-day cruise the company will begin next May between Nuremberg and Budapest and Nuremberg and Vienna.

A. The 100-passenger Nantucket Clipper offers an eight-day cruise that spends a full five days in the bay each spring before sailing to New York.

The QE2 is making an eight-day cruise around Britain to mark its 40th anniversary.

A 12-day program in Greenland and Iceland, with an eight-day cruise, is $3,375 to $7,080 a person, double.

On the Rotterdam, an eight-day cruise from Venice to Rome departing Nov. 9 ranges from $999 to $1,999.

The company organizes eight-day cruises aboard the 12-passenger Albatross, which leaves every Thursday from San Cristobal.

Neither six- to eight-day cruises nor nine- to 17-day trips increased as fast, and cruises of 18 days or more showed no growth in the decade.