Late final yr, Carnival Corporation introduced that three further ships could be leaving its international fleet in 2023 — two from Costa Cruises and a 3rd from one other not-yet-revealed model.
Now, the corporate has revealed which model and ship it’s: AIDAaura from German cruise line AIDA Cruises. After greater than 20 years in service, the vessel might be leaving the fleet this September.
AIDAaura‘s farewell season will begin on January 9, 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa with the primary of 4 14-day voyages to South Africa and Namibia. On March sixth, a 27-day cruise from South Africa to Hamburg, Germany with stops in Namibia, the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands, Portugal, and Spain will depart from Cape Town.
In April, the ship will function a Great Norway Round Trip itinerary to the North Cape over Eater, in addition to two new seven-day voyages to/from Hamburg to the Norwegian fjords and Scotland. These will also be booked as a single 14-day cruise.
From mid-May to early July, AIDA friends can go to western Europe’s rivers, England, France, or Ireland roundtrip on AIDAaura. Highlight locations will embrace Saint Malo, France; Edinburgh and Loch Ness close to Invergordon in Scotland; Falmouth, England; and the Orkney Islands, Isle of Skye, and the Outer Hebrides.
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In July and August, the ship will sail from Hamburg to Bremerhaven on 21-day cruises to Iceland and Greenland with passages alongside the glaciers and icebergs in Prins-Christian-Sund or Disko Bay.
AIDAaura‘s final voyage for AIDA Cruises will embrace well-known rivers such because the Thames to Tilbury on the outskirts of London, the Seine in France to Rouen, and the Scheldt in Belgium to Antwerp.
Since her naming ceremony in April 2003 in Warnemünde, Germany, AIDAaura has visited locations across the globe on over 800 voyages. In her debut season, the ship was the official German Olympic ship through the summer time video games in Athens, and headed for locations within the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Central America.
In winter 2018-2019, AIDAaura working a 117-day world cruise that visited 41 locations on 4 continents.
Carnival Corporation has not introduced which two Costa Cruises ships may even be leaving the fleet in 2023.
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