AIDA Cruises has introduced that the AIDAaura will depart its fleet this September, consistent with Carnival Corporation’s announcement to slim down its fleet by divesting of one other three older and smaller ships.
The German model has therefor introduced a farewell season for the ship, kicking off on Jan. 9, 2023 in Cape Town with the primary of a complete of 4 14-day voyages to South Africa & Namibia.
On March 6, 2023, the 27-day cruise from South Africa to Hamburg (Germany), through Namibia, the Cape Verde Islands and Canary Islands, in addition to Portugal and Spain, will depart from the metropolis on the Cape of Good Hope.
Starting in April, cruises embrace the “Great Norway Round Trip” to the North Cape over Easter, or the 2 new seven-day voyages on the AIDAaura from/to Hamburg to Norway’s fjords and to Scotland. These will also be booked as a 14-day cruise.
In July and August 2023, it’s time to sail from Hamburg and 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 leads on well-known European rivers such because the Thames to Tilbury on the outskirts of the British capital London, the Seine in France to Rouen or the Scheldt in Belgium to Antwerp.
The AIDAaura was named on April 12, 2003 in Rostock. Among highlights, in its debut season, AIDAaura was the official German Olympic ship throughout the Summer Games in Athens (Greece) and sailed to locations within the Mediterranean in addition to the Caribbean and Central America. Further highlights had been the unique AIDAselection voyages to Mauritius and the Seychelles, to the Orient, to India and Greenland, to Iceland or so far as the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen.
As a part of the world cruise in winter 2018/2019, AIDAaura visitors visited 41 locations on 4 continents in 117 days.