It offers five-day cruises from £356 and seven days from £500.

While exotic destinations usually require two or more weeks, the two- to five-day cruise market continues to be the fastest growing.

The cost of a five-day cruise?

It will call Tampa Bay its home port for five weeks of two- and five-day cruises.

The other was the five-day cruise on a submarine, diesel-electric then.

Its fares start at $880 a person in double occupancy for the five-day cruises and $1,910 for 10-day cruises.

He smiled and said, "So I guess you don't have a nice five-day cruise I could send my parents on?"

Partly because of tighter budgets or a desire not to be away from home too long, two- to five-day cruises are now more popular.

America left for a five-day cruise to Nova Scotia on July 3, 1978.

"Our ultimate test was a five-day cruise on my sailboat," he said.