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Celebrity unveils European sailings for 2012
Celebrity Cruises will have four of its Solstice Class ships sailing full European seasons in summer 2012.
The cruise line is also offering extended overnight stays and eight new ports – Klaksvik (Faroe Islands), Akureyri (Iceland), Bari, Catania and Ravenna (Italy), Skijolden (Norway), Koper (Slovenia) and Fuerteventura.
The 2,886-guest Celebrity Silhouette, due to launch in summer 2011, will be the first Celebrity Cruises ship to offer sailings from Venice.
These will be a series of roundtrip, Venice-based cruises and open-jaw cruises between Venice and Rome, ranging from 11-13 nights from May to August 2012.
In mid-August, Celebrity Silhouette will offer eight Holy Land itineraries from Rome, ranging from 11-14 nights.
UK based Celebrity Eclipse will be based in Southampton for the summer of 2012, offering four 14-night itineraries in the Mediterranean, Scandinavia/Russia, Iceland/Fjords and Canary Islands/Azores.
A new expanded Baltic season will include cruises to Iceland and the Norwegian Fjords, with an overnight stay in Reykjavik.
Celebrity Constellation, which was fitted with a series of Solstice-class features in 2010, will offer a series of cruises from Amsterdam, including seven Scandinavia/Russia cruises, one Arctic Circle cruise and one Norwegian Fjords cruise.
Celebrity Constellation will also offer three 12-night Greek Isles and Turkey cruises with only two sea days, and three 12-night Holy Land sailings that each feature three days in Israel: a two-day overnight, in-port stay in Ashdod and Alexandria and a full-day in Haifa.
Celebrity Solstice and sister ship Celebrity Equinox will continue 2011’s itineraries.
Celebrity Solstice will present two 12-night Mediterranean sailings out of Barcelona and Celebrity Equinox will homeport in Rome, and perform 10- and 11-night cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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