No one deserves a holiday more than Britain’s older people after 15 months of risk and anxiety over Covid-19 and separation from friends and family. Bookings for Saga’s cruises and tours bear this out. Cruises are 77 per cent-booked for this year and 48 per cent for 2022-23, while tour bookings are at 60 per cent of the company’s revenue targets for 2021-22.
Despite the delay in the government’s easing of lockdown restrictions this week, Saga’s travel business, which lost 90 per cent of its revenues in the year to the end of January, will restart on June 27. Spirit of Adventure, its new cruise ship, will set sail for the first time on July 26 around the UK and European cruises are planned from
