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Welcome to The Co-operative Travel Cruises website.

The Co-operative Travel Cruises is a specialist web division of The Co-operative Travel, part of Europe's largest consumer co-operative.

Based in Barrow In Furness, The Co-operative Travel Cruises is a subsidiary company of the award winning cruise specialist Cumbria Cruises who now operates our cruise website on our behalf. (Cumbria Cruises is a trading name of Co-operative Travel Group Limited). 

This exiting new facility allows Co-operative Travel customers who are wishing to make enquiries about, or book a cruise to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of our colleagues at Cumbria Cruises who have an enviable reputation and an excellent long established relationship with all major cruise lines which therefore enables us access to the very best deals/offers/exclusives and the most up to date information.

Why choose The Co-operative Travel Cruises?

In a recent survey, our customers ranked our Personal Service and Reliably Competitive Pricing as the two key benefits of booking with us. We are recognised by the quality of service we provide and our in depth knowledge of the industry, cruise lines and ships. Our travel advisors really are specialists, having visited or travelled on over 80% of the cruise ships in operation today and are regularly getting updated and trained on the new trends in the industry. They will do all the hard work and research on your behalf, to assist you in selecting and booking the right cruise for you, whether it is your first or your 50th.

About The Co-operative Travel

The Co-operative Travel is part of the Europe’s largest consumer co-operative.  We operate over 400 high street travel agencies, a business travel operation, call centres, a specialist cruise operation and in excess of 600 travel home workers.  Our business has grown considerably over recent years to become a diverse multi-channel operation and we now take care of the travel arrangements for over two million passengers every year.

The Co-operative Travel offers more choice than any other travel agency and we offer the very best deals around at the lowest prices guaranteed.  We are totally committed to providing open, honest and responsible advice to help holidaymakers make an informed choice on holidays that they book directly through us.

As a holidaymaker you can choose to book your whole holiday with us or just the bits that suit you best from a wide range of holidays The Co-operative Travel really can help you discover a world full of holidays 
 

Financial protection

We are full members of ABTA (the Association of British Travel Agents) and are also ATOL protected (Air Travel Organisers Licence) so you can rest assured that your travel arrangements will be secure with us. 

Award winning team

At The Co-operative Travel, our knowledge and expertise is second to none.  Our award winning travel advisors and cruise consultants are highly trained and always on hand to offer practical support and advice about the holidays and destinations we offer.  In 2008, 21 of our team of advisers won a number of prestigious industry awards.
 

Ethical travel provider

In July 2008, The Co-operative Travel launched its new Ethical Strategy to underpin its core social and ethical goals.  We were the first major UK high street travel agent to offer customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions in our retail branches and virtually all our outlets are powered by renewable electricity.   As part of this strategy we also announced our intention not to support the development of a third runway at Heathrow and in principle, all other new runways in the UK.

Additional elements of our ethical strategy include:

-Free carbon offset for customers who book a holiday through us and are members of The Co-operative Group membership scheme

-The option for all customers who book a holiday with us to make a small payment to help fund carbon offset projects in the developing world

-The option for every customer to make a £1 voluntary donation to the Travel Foundation, a charity that supports sustainable tourism projects in holiday destinations worldwide

-The provision of funding for two research projects with the charity, Forum for the Future, to support research into greener tourism

-The provision of funding for solar panels at a school in each of our 18 trading areas in the coming year as part of the Green Energy for Schools campaign, operated by our parent organisation, The Co-operative Group