Featuring year-round balmy weather and a trademark fortified wine, the Portuguese island of Madeira also boasts a lushness that earned its label as the “Floating Garden of the Atlantic.” During your stay in the lovely capital of Funchal, you’ll enjoy a half-day city tour and immersion into local island life. Peruse the covered market at the edge of the Old Town and visit a traditional wine cellar to savor the island’s titular Madeira wine. Raise a glass to this oceanic outpost — the perfect complement to your cruise across the mainland!

• Flight from Madeira to Lisbon
• 3 nights' accommodations in sea-view rooms at the First Class Pestana Carlton Madeira Hotel (or similar)
• 3 meals: 3 breakfasts
• Half-day city tour with wicker toboggan ride
• Visit a renowned wine cellar, complete with a wine and food tasting
• All transfers and baggage handling overseas, beginning with your first hotel
• Services of a City Host and experienced local guides
• Tipping for drivers and local guides (excluding City Host)
• Services of the Vantage Worldwide Concierge, to plan celebrations, activities, or provide regional expertise. Log in to My Portfolio and submit a request, or send an email any time up to two weeks prior to your departure to Concierge@vantagetravel.com

Experience a different side of Spain on this enriching extension to Catalonia. A distinctive region with its own language and unique Catalan culture, Catalonia also hosts the glittering Costa Brava and the mountainous outpost of Montserrat. You’ll begin this journey enraptured by the seaside splendor of Barcelona, where tapas, ancient Roman ruins, and Antoni Gaudí’s grand masterworks fuse into a global cultural capital and the ultimate foodie destination. Barcelona reared a young Pablo Picasso, who regarded this Catalonian hub as his true home, and the city continues to be a beacon in a region still living on the cutting edge of design, art, and molecular gastronomy.

• 3 nights' accommodations at the Superior First-Class Ocean Drive Barcelona Hotel (or similar)
• 4 meals: 3 breakfasts and 1 dinner
• Scenic high-speed train ride from Madrid to Barcelona (with luggage transfer)
• Tour of Barcelona
• All transfers and baggage handling (where permitted)
• Services of a City Host and regional experts
• Tipping for drivers and local guides (excluding City Host)
• Services of the Vantage Worldwide Concierge, to plan celebrations, activities, or provide regional expertise. Log in to My Portfolio and submit a request, or send an email any time up to two weeks prior to your departure to Concierge@vantagetravel.com.

Experience a different side of Spain on this enriching extension to Catalonia. A distinctive region with its own language and unique Catalan culture, Catalonia also hosts the glittering Costa Brava and the mountainous outpost of Montserrat. You’ll begin this journey enraptured by the seaside splendor of Barcelona, where tapas, ancient Roman ruins, and Antoni Gaudí’s grand masterworks fuse into a global cultural capital and the ultimate foodie destination. Barcelona reared a young Pablo Picasso, who regarded this Catalonian hub as his true home, and the city continues to be a beacon in a region still living on the cutting edge of design, art, and molecular gastronomy.

• 3 nights' accommodations at the Superior First-Class Ocean Drive Barcelona Hotel (or similar)
• 4 meals: 3 breakfasts and 1 dinner
• Scenic high-speed train ride from Madrid to Barcelona (with luggage transfer)
• Tour of Barcelona
• All transfers and baggage handling (where permitted)
• Services of a City Host and regional experts
• Tipping for drivers and local guides (excluding City Host)
• Services of the Vantage Worldwide Concierge, to plan celebrations, activities, or provide regional expertise. Log in to My Portfolio and submit a request, or send an email any time up to two weeks prior to your departure to Concierge@vantagetravel.com.

Featuring year-round balmy weather and a trademark fortified wine, the Portuguese island of Madeira also boasts a lushness that earned its label as the “Floating Garden of the Atlantic.” During your stay in the lovely capital of Funchal, you’ll enjoy a half-day city tour and immersion into local island life. Peruse the covered market at the edge of the Old Town and visit a traditional wine cellar to savor the island’s titular Madeira wine. Raise a glass to this oceanic outpost — the perfect complement to your cruise across the mainland!

• Flight from Lisbon to Madeira
• 3 nights' accommodations in sea-view rooms at the First Class Pestana Carlton Madeira Hotel (or similar)
• 3 meals: 3 breakfasts
• Half-day city tour with wicker toboggan ride
• Visit a renowned wine cellar, complete with a wine and food tasting
• All transfers and baggage handling overseas, beginning with your first hotel
• Services of a City Host and experienced local guides
• Tipping for drivers and local guides (excluding City Host)
• Services of the Vantage Worldwide Concierge, to plan celebrations, activities, or provide regional expertise. Log in to My Portfolio and submit a request, or send an email any time up to two weeks prior to your departure to Concierge@vantagetravel.com