Multi-Centre Holidays 2026/27

What does each multi-centre trip cost?

All 35 packages, grouped by region and listed cheapest first. Prices are per person and include return flights from London, internal flights, trains or transfers between your stops, and your hotels. Regional UK departures can be priced on request, at a supplement confirmed when you enquire.

Europe, from £259pp

City then all-inclusive beach, from £499pp

Indian Ocean and Asia, from £849pp

USA and the Caribbean, from £1,199pp

If the Caribbean leg is what you are really choosing between, our Caribbean multi-centre guide compares the islands island by island.

If you want the reasoning behind these pairings rather than the prices — why city goes first, how to judge an internal flight, what goes wrong — that is covered in our complete guide to multi-centre holidays.

Marrakech and Agadir starts at £499pp, for departures from 1 to 15 December; the Marrakech holidays guide sets every month's price against the weather in both places. Istanbul and Antalya starts at £699pp, in January and February; the Turkey holidays guide sets every month's price against the weather in both places. Helsinki and Lapland starts at £899pp, in October; the Lapland holidays guide sets each month's price against the cold, the daylight and the Northern Lights season in Rovaniemi. Oslo and Bergen starts at £499pp; the Oslo to Bergen train guide sets each month's price against the weather in both cities and the daylight for the journey over the Hardangervidda.

When is a multi-centre holiday cheapest?

Long-haul multi-centres run on the opposite calendar to European city trips, and the gap is worth real money. For a fuller breakdown of where the money goes on a trip like this, see what multi-centre holidays really cost.

Across the Indian Ocean and Asia packages, December is the dearest month on every one of them, and the cheapest usually falls between May and October. Singapore and Bali is £999pp in June against £1,249pp in December. Bangkok and Phuket is £849pp in October and May and £1,199pp in December. Tokyo and Kyoto runs £1,149pp against £1,399pp. Mauritius and Dubai is £1,599pp in June and £1,999pp in December.

The widest gap of all is Dubai and the Maldives: £1,779pp in June, against £2,799pp in December — the same ten nights, the same hotels. No other trip here moves by anything like that much between its cheapest and dearest month, so if your dates are flexible at all, moving them off December is worth more here than anywhere else.

The European and transatlantic trips follow the pattern you would expect: cheapest in January, dearest in July. Rome and Florence is £339pp against £429pp, Venice, Florence and Rome £399pp against £549pp, New York and Barbados £1,499pp against £1,699pp.

December being dearest for Asia and the Indian Ocean is not a quirk of our contracting: it is the Christmas long-haul rush. The cheaper months are not all equal on weather, though. Bali's dry season runs roughly April to October, while Phuket's rainy season runs roughly May to October — and October and May, the cheapest months for Bangkok and Phuket, fall inside it.

How do the nights split between each stop?

This is where most multi-centre trips are won or lost, and the packages here are built around answers rather than leaving it to you.

European twin-centres work at four nights because the transfer is a train. Rome and Florence at £339pp gives you two nights in each, and the ninety minutes between them costs you a morning rather than a day. The same holds for Lisbon and Porto, and for the German and Austrian market pairings, where the two cities are between twenty-five minutes and two and a half hours apart.

Three European cities need six nights, not four. Venice, Florence and Rome at £399pp and Milan, Lake Como and Venice at £439pp are both two nights in each place. Two nights is the floor at which a stop stops feeling like an overnight stay. Madrid, Seville and Barcelona takes seven for the same reason, because the distances are longer.

Long-haul pairings work best over ten nights or more. Dubai and the Maldives at £1,779pp is three nights of city and seven of beach, which is the classic split and works because Dubai is on the way. Singapore and Bali at £999pp runs to ten, and so does Bangkok and Phuket. Anything shorter and you spend a meaningful share of the holiday in transit.

Three long-haul centres need twelve to fourteen. Mauritius, Singapore and Bali at £2,149pp is twelve nights; Iceland, the USA and Canada at £2,149pp is fourteen. These are not two-week holidays with extras bolted on — they are three distinct trips, and the night count reflects that.

Long-haul splits work the same way over more nights. Thailand runs seven, ten or twelve nights across Bangkok and Phuket from £849 per person, with Krabi as an optional third stop, and Vietnam and Cambodia ten to fourteen nights across two countries from £1,299. Vietnam alone, Hanoi to Saigon, runs nine nights from £1,049.

Which multi-centre trip should you choose?

If it is your first one

Rome and Venice at £259pp, Zurich and Lucerne at £299pp, or Rome and Florence at £339pp. Short flight, a train between the two stops, no internal flight to worry about and no visa paperwork beyond a valid passport. If it turns out you dislike moving mid-holiday, you have found that out cheaply.

If you want city energy then complete silence

Dubai and the Maldives at £1,779pp is the purest version — three nights of skyline, seven nights where the loudest thing is the reef. New York and Barbados at £1,499pp does the same with a shorter hop between the two.

If you want the most trip for the money

Bangkok and Phuket at £849pp is seven nights across two places, which is less than several of our single-centre long-haul weeks. Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi at £1,149pp is the same logic over eight nights. Closer to home, Istanbul and Antalya at £699pp is ten nights, seven of them all-inclusive.

If you are going for the culture rather than the beach

Tokyo and Kyoto at £1,149pp, Madrid, Seville and Barcelona at £709pp, or Vietnam from Hanoi to Saigon at £1,049pp. None has a lying-down leg, which suits some people and would ruin the holiday for others.

If it is a honeymoon

Dubai and the Maldives at £1,779pp and Singapore and Bali at £999pp are the two classic pairings. Both put the busy half first, which matters more on a honeymoon than on any other trip — you do not want to leave the quiet part to travel.

If you want three countries, not two

Iceland, the USA and Canada at £2,149pp over fourteen nights, or Mauritius, Singapore and Bali at the same price over twelve. Miami, Orlando and the Bahamas at £1,899pp is the gentler version, with no long-haul leg in the middle.

If two or three cities appeal more than a city and a beach, Italy is the route built for it — Rome to Florence takes 1 hour 25 minutes by high-speed train, and a two-city break starts at £259 per person, for Rome and Venice. The Italy multi-centre guide compares the routes and their month-by-month prices. Further afield, the same idea gives you Tokyo and Kyoto, about 130 minutes apart on the Shinkansen, or Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi, an hour apart by air. Both start at £1,149 per person including flights.

What changes the price of a multi-centre holiday?

• The month. Dubai and the Maldives runs from £1,779pp to £2,799pp depending on when you go, as above. Nothing else on this list moves by anything like that much.
• The number of centres. Adding a third stop adds an internal flight or transfer, another hotel and usually two more nights. Singapore and Bali is £999pp; add Mauritius and it is £2,149pp for twelve nights.
• Which order you visit them in. Routings that follow the natural flight path cost less than ones that double back. Mauritius then Dubai is priced as a stopover; the reverse is not.
• Departure airport. Every price is from London. Regional departures can be priced on request, at a supplement we confirm at enquiry rather than estimate.
• Nights and hotel grade. Several trips are sold as a range — Bangkok and Phuket at seven, ten or twelve nights, Singapore and Bali at seven or ten, Tokyo and Kyoto at six or eight, Japan Discovery at ten or fourteen. The headline price is the shortest option, at 4★.

What paperwork do you need before you fly?

Checked against GOV.UK foreign travel advice in September 2026. Rules change, and we re-confirm yours before you travel.

The thing that catches multi-centre travellers out is not visas. It is that most of these countries now want an online form completed before departure, and a trip crossing two or three of them means two or three forms. Missing one is usually sorted at the airport, but not always calmly.

• Europe and Iceland (Schengen): no visa, 90 days in any 180. Passport must have been issued within the last 10 years of arrival and be valid three months past departure. The biometric Entry/Exit System is rolling out — allow extra border time on your first crossing. ETIAS is not required.
• USA: ESTA required before you fly, $40.27, valid two years, and it applies to transit as well as entry. The fee rose from $21, so check an old one rather than assuming.
• Canada: eTA required for air arrivals, but not if you arrive by land or sea from the USA — worth knowing on a USA and Canada routing.
• Mexico: no visa, entry stamp up to 180 days. The online immigration form is for land entry only, so a flight into Cancún does not need one.
• Barbados: no visa. Immigration and customs form must be completed online before arrival, and an onward or return ticket is required.
• UAE: visitor visa free on arrival, up to 90 days in any 180. Passport valid six months past arrival.
• Maldives: free 30-day visa on arrival. Passport valid one month past arrival. IMUGA traveller declaration within 96 hours before your flight lands.
• Singapore: no visa, 30 to 90 days at the officer's discretion. Passport valid six months. SG Arrival Card submitted electronically in the three days before arrival.
• Indonesia (Bali): visa on arrival, 500,000 IDR, 30 days. Passport valid six months with two blank pages. Online customs declaration within 72 hours, plus the Bali tourist levy of 150,000 IDR.
• Thailand: visa-exempt for 30 days — reduced from 60 on 15 September 2026, so older advice is out of date. Passport valid six months with a blank page. Digital arrival card registered in the three days before arrival.
• Malaysia: visa-free for 90 days, passport valid six months. Arrival card submitted online before you travel; airlines may ask for it at check-in.
• Mauritius: visa-free up to 60 days. Passport valid for the length of your stay plus one blank page. The Mauritius All in One travel form is completed online and you print the QR code for the airport.
• Japan: visa on arrival for up to 90 days. Passport need only be valid for the length of your stay, plus a blank page for the stamp.
• Vietnam: no visa for up to 45 days. Passport valid six months, with two blank pages.
• Turkey: no visa for tourism, up to 90 days in any 180. Passport valid at least 150 days from arrival, with a blank page.
• Morocco: no visa for up to 90 days. Passport valid at least three months from arrival, and undamaged.

Who multi-centre holidays suit

• Travellers going somewhere far enough that they will not return soon, and who want to see more than one part of it.
• Anyone who finds a fortnight in one resort too long — two stops of a week each solves that.
• Honeymooners who want the busy half and the quiet half in one booking, in that order.
• People who want the whole thing on one ATOL-protected contract rather than assembling it from separate bookings.
• Anyone whose two must-see places happen to sit on the same flight path, which is more often than you would think.

Who might prefer something else

• If you have less than a week, a long-haul multi-centre will not fit, and at a week keep it to two stops, as Bangkok and Phuket does over seven nights. Consider a European twin-centre at four nights, a city break, or a single-centre beach holiday.
• If you are travelling with a baby or toddler, a second set of flights, transfers and hotel check-ins is a lot to ask. One resort usually wins.
• If unpacking once is the point of a holiday, this is the wrong format and no amount of planning will fix it.
• If your budget is tight for the dates you need, one centre done well beats two done thinly. We would rather tell you that than sell you the second stop.
• If someone in the party finds flying difficult, internal flights add legs. The European rail pairings avoid that entirely.

How we book it

Every package here is ATOL 10713 protected and we hold IATA accreditation 91285611. Internal flights and transfers between your centres are part of the same booking, which is the practical reason to buy a multi-centre trip as a package rather than build it yourself: if one leg moves, the rest is our problem to solve rather than yours.

Every package outside the Christmas market twins is held with a deposit of £99 per person. Prices here are the ones we hold today and are shown in full on the page. Long-haul fares move as seats sell, and December in particular sells early.