15 Night Middle East Cruise

Athens cruise port is in Piraeus, a busy port city about 10 kilometers southwest of central Athens. Piraeus is its own city, not just a terminal, and it handles cruise ships, island ferries, and commercial traffic all at once.

Doha is the capital of Qatar, a small, wealthy Persian Gulf state on a peninsula jutting into the Arabian Gulf. The city has about 2 million people in its metropolitan area and has transformed from a quiet pearling and fishing port into one of the most architecturally ambitious cities in the Middle East, fueled by natural gas wealth.

Dubai is a city built on ambition and air conditioning, rising from the Arabian desert into a skyline of record-breaking towers, artificial islands, and mega-malls. The Dubai cruise port at Mina Rashid sits in the older part of the city near the historic Creek district, about 15 minutes from the modern skyscraper core along Sheikh Zayed Road.