AIDA Cruises Will Resume Cruise Operations with Fall and Winter Voyages

ROSTOCK, Germany, Aug. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AIDA Cruises, the foremost cruise line in Germany and a portion of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL NYSE: CUK), now announced that it will supply cruises this drop and winter that mix the fascination of a cruise journey with an unforgettable vacation expertise to a number of well-known locations.

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the ailments are at present not in put in Germany’s neighbouring European nations, in particular in the north with Norway and Denmark or the Baltic states. For numerous distant locations exterior of Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany has issued a journey warning or the respective nations have prohibited phone calls of cruise ships right up until 2021. As a outcome, the corporation has cancelled its previously announced cruises for September and has updated its drop and winter 2020-2021 system to deliver its attendees and sales companions extra time to system and e-book holidays for a secure and pleasurable return to cruise holiday seasons.

As the very first ship from the AIDA fleet to commence sailing, AIDAmar will set system on Nov. 1, 2020, for seven-day voyages to the Canary Islands, a well-known location with German vacationers.

AIDAperla will adhere to on Nov. seven, 2020, and will get over the journey system originally planned for AIDAnova. AIDAmar’s voyages will start and conclusion in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. For voyages with AIDAperla, in addition to Las Palmas, AIDA Cruises will supply a 2nd departure port with Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In the Western Mediterranean, AIDA Cruises will resume sailing functions with AIDAstella on Dec. twelve, 2020, where by the ship will solid off from Palma, Mallorca, on seven-day cruises to some of the most attractive cities in the Western Mediterranean.

The treasures of the Orient get center stage all through the seven-day AIDAprima cruises that will be available starting off Dec. eleven, 2020, from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and from Dec. 15, 2020, from Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

“Even while it is at present not doable for cruise ships to contact at Norway, which is so crucial for our voyages to the north, we are confident that the very first AIDA ships from Germany will be ready to journey to Northern Europe once more at the beginning of 2021,” states Felix Eichhorn, president of AIDA Cruises.

AIDA Cruises is in close get hold of with the liable authorities and airways in purchase to prepare for the restart of its voyages in November and December.

Supported by the theme “With certainty the most attractive getaway,” the corporation offers facts about the increased safety measures towards COVID-19 at www.aida.de/sichererurlaub.

All AIDA cruises get put in compliance with the necessities of the respective intercontinental and countrywide wellbeing authorities as properly as the increased wellbeing and cleanliness standards of AIDA Cruises. The renowned unbiased testing corporation SGS Institut Fresenius and the classification culture DNV-GL have reviewed and confirmed the increased wellbeing and cleanliness standards and the processes of preventive measures that AIDA Cruises will carry out for the restart of cruise functions.

All AIDA cruises can be booked at journey organizations, with the AIDA shopper center at the cellphone number 0381/202 707 07, or on-line at www.aida.de.

Thanks to the current pandemic, events of the final several months in Germany and the linked journey limits in neighboring European nations, in particular in  Northern European nations this kind of as Norway and Denmark, as properly as the Baltic states, AIDA Cruises has appear to the conclusion that, irrespective of its watchful preparations, the ailments for a secure and liable restart are not nonetheless in put.

AIDA Cruises regretably has to lengthen its pause in procedure and all brief voyages with AIDAblu from Kiel, the voyages with AIDAperla with departure dates of Sept. twelve, 19 and 26 from Hamburg, as properly as all voyages up to and together with Oct. 31, 2020, will be cancelled. In addition, all other voyages planned for the drop and winter year for 2020 and 2021 in the Western Mediterranean, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and Northern Europe will not get put.

AIDA Cruises also pretty a lot regrets cancelling all extended-length cruises of the drop and winter year for 2020 and 2021 in the pursuing locations:

• Caribbean (together with transit cruises) with AIDAdiva, AIDAluna and AIDAperla
• Southern Africa (together with transit cruises) with AIDAmira
• Southeast Asia (together with transit cruises) with AIDAbella and AIDAvita
• Indian Ocean (together with transit cruises) with AIDAblu
• Orient with AIDAprima up to and together with the voyage on Dec. eight, 2020

All attendees whose voyage can’t get put will be knowledgeable straight away.

Whole aspects of the extension of the pause in functions as properly as FAQs can be uncovered on this site: www.aida.de/reisehinweis.

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