Costa offers free nights in Rome

Costa Cruises has unveiled a new “Europe on Us”program that enables guests to extend their cruise vacation with a free two-night post-cruise hotel stay in Rome, Italy. The package is offered on select seven-, 11- and 12-night round-trip Civitavecchia (Rome) itineraries aboard Costa Pacifica and Costa Magica from Dec. 20 through April 12, 2013. In addition to the hotel stay, the package includes a one-way transfer from the pier to the hotel on the day of disembarkation. The offer is valid on new reservations for first and second guests booked in an oceanview or verandah stateroom. Costa Pacifica’s seven-night western Mediterranean cruise calls at Savona, Italy; Marseille, France; Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Palermo, Sicily, and Cagliari and Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy. Travellers looking for a longer cruise can select Costa Magica’s 11-night western Mediterranean cruise or 12-night eastern Mediterranean itinerary. The 11-night western Med itinerary departs Civitavecchia (Rome) and calls at Savona; Barcelona and Cadiz, Spain; Casablanca and Tangier, Morocco; Lisbon, Portugal, and Valencia, Spain. The 12-night eastern Med itinerary departs Civitavecchia (Rome) and calls at Savona; La Valleta, Malta; Izmir, Turkey, and Heraklion (Crete), Rhodes, Piraeus (Athens) and Katakolon (Olympia), Greece. (http://www.costacruises.com)