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Thursday, 08 Feb, 2010
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Two Costa Cruises ships are to run Red Sea cruises next winter.
Costa Allegra and Costa Marina will be based in Sharm El Sheikh for winter 2010/11.
Costa Allegra will depart on Mondays and Costa Marina on Thursdays on seven-day sailings.
The itinerary includes three days in Sharm El Sheikh and calls at Adabiyah and Safaga in Egypt, Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat before returning to Sharm El Sheikh.
Newly launched Costa Deliziosa will depart on a 100-night world cruise from Savona in Italy on December 28, 2011.
The voyage can be broken down into three segments – from Savona to Los Angeles via the Caribbean and the Panama Canal; from Los Angeles to Singapore with stops in Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia; and from Singapore to Savona via Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, the Red Sea and Egypt.
Costa Cruises is also introducing new options in the Mediterranean, in both winter and summer. Valencia is added to the seven-night itinerary on Costa Magica, with the chance to visit Madrid thanks to a high speed train linking the two Spanish cities.
Costa Magica will also be offering seven-night winter cruises calling at Savona, Civitavecchia, Palermo, Tunis, Palma, Barcelona and Marseilles.
Details of new itineraries appear in Costa Cruises’ 2011 brochure, which has been released to 80,000 travel agents worldwide
New 3,780-passenger flagship Costa Favolosa will debut in summer 2011, claiming to be a be a contemporary “fairy tale castle” at sea
The first of two sister ships will feature six new veranda suites with their own whirlpool baths and a new entertainment area called Club Cavallo Bianco comprising of a 4D Cinema, PlayStation World, a bar, children’s dance floor, games room and an aqua park water playground, complete with its own galleon.
Costa Favolosa is scheduled leave from Venice on its maiden cruise on July 7, 2011 – a ten-night voyage to Israel, Greece and Turkey, with stopovers at Bari, Corfu, Haifa, Izmir and Dubrovnik.
Costa Favolosa will operate seven-night cruises from Venice and Bari to Turkey, Greece and Croatia throughout the summer of 2011.
The second new vessel, Costa Fascinosa, will join the fleet in spring 2012.
Costa Luminosa and Costa Deliziosa, Costa’s top of the range ships, will be back in the Arabian Gulf next winter on seven-night cruises departing from Dubai and calling at Muscat (Oman) Fujairah, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
In January 2011, Costa Luminosa will run a special 21-night cruise from Dubai to India and the Maldives.
Costa Romantica will sail from Mauritius on 14-night Indian Ocean cruises between December this year and April 2011 with calls in the Seychelles, Madagascar and Reunion.
Costa Classica and Costa Romantica will be back in the Far East again in 2011. Costa Classica will depart from Hong Kong and Singapore on 14- to 16-night cruises to Thailand, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan and Taiwan as well as mini-cruises with departures from China.
Costa Classica will offer a new 14-night itinerary, which can be broken down into two seven-night segments, sailing from Singapore to Thailand and Malaysia in March and April2011.
From April 2011, Costa Romantica will offer mini-cruises and longer holidays from Singapore and Shanghai.
Four Costa ships deployed in Northern Europe in summer 2011: Costa Luminosa, Costa Deliziosa, Costa Pacifica and Costa Atlantica.
Costa Deliziosa will sail from Amsterdam to the North Cape, Baltic cities and Greenland. Costa Luminosa will operate on seven-night cruises out of Copenhagen to the Norwegian fjords and Baltic cities.
Costa Pacifica will be deployed on Northern European cruises for the first time from Kiel running 11- to 17-night itineraries to the fjords, North Cape, Iceland, Spitsbergen and Baltic cities.
Costa Atlantica will be based in Copenhagen on seven-night voyages to the Norwegian fjords and Baltic cities.
There will be two Costa ships in the Caribbean in the 2010/11 winter season – Costa Mediterranea from Guadeloupe and Costa Atlantica from Miami.
Both will offer seven-night cruises calling at a different Caribbean island each day. Barbados has been permanently added to the itinerary.
Costa Atlantica in the spring and Costa Mediterranea in the autumn will be deployed on cruises along the Atlantic coast of the US and Canada.
Three ships will operate from South America in winter 2010/11 – Costa Serena, Costa Fortuna and Costa Victoria. These will offer departures from Santos, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires on cruises to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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