Tagged: AIDA Cruises

AIDA Cruises has brought premium coffee brand Starbucks on board – thus once again expanding its catering range. With its broad product palette the long-standing American company is the world’s leading brand for specialty coffees. (more…)

AIDAperla, the latest offshoot of the Rostock-based cruise company, AIDA Cruises, will already be arriving in the Western Mediterranean in July 2017, two months earlier than planned. (more…)

Guests can now book three sections of AIDAcara’s round-the-world cruise which starts from Hamburg on October 17, 2017, and will take in numerous ports of call including Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Auckland and Sydney before returning 116 days later to Hamburg. (more…)

From May 7 – 20, 2017, aboard AIDAbella guests have a chance to experience what may well be one of the most extraordinary cruises of the year.

The big day is coming up on January 12, 2017: for the first time, exclusively, and ahead of the official movie theater launch, AIDA guests and invited celebrities will get to enjoy an ocean premiere on board a cruise ship. (more…)

The cruise line AIDA Cruises is looking back at one of its most successful years in its 20-year-old corporate history. With AIDAprima, the flagship of the latest AIDA generation, the company has once again entered new territory and proven its innovative power. (more…)

The AIDAperla has gotten her trademark hull art – the AIDA smile – at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan, where she is under construction. The 124,500-ton, 3,300-passenger AIDAperla will debut into Mediterranean service on Sept. 1. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

On November 12, 2016, AIDA Cruises opened Hamburg’s newest and highest ice rink on board AIDAprima. AIDA Cruises is thus offering sport-loving guests the opportunity to see what ice skates feel like on the high seas – a first in the German cruise market. (more…)

From October 22 to November 5, 2016 one of the most unusual cruises of the winter season – from New York to the Dominican Republic has come to an end. The gastro-revolutionary “Jungen Wilden” with their star, Stefan Marquard, rocked the ship’s cuisine and restaurants.

Following the successful launch of AIDAprima, in 2017 AIDA Cruises will be welcoming her twin ship, AIDAperla, as the twelfth member of the fleet. (more…)

Contrary to previous announcements, the 2008-built AIDAbella will now spend summer 2017 in Europe, sailing in the Western Mediterranean and will not go to China. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The new AIDA catalog for the travel period from March 2017 to April 2018 will appear on October 6, 2016 under the title: “HOLYDAY A NEW WAY.” (more…)

On August 09, 2016, AIDA Cruises launched the first marketing campaign on the Chinese market. From April 2017, with AIDAbella, AIDA Cruises will, for the first time, deploy a ship in China all year round. (more…)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is revisiting its position in the cruise ship building industry following long delays and steep writeoffs on the AIDAprima and her yet-to-be-named sister ship, which is still under construction. (maritime-executive.com)

This summer, during the best weeks of the year, AIDA Cruises is offering its youngest guests a thrilling adventure program both on shore and on board the AIDA ships. (more…)

Twenty years ago today, on June 7, 1996, the first ship in the AIDA fleet was christened by former first lady Christiane Herzog in Rostock and put into service. (more…)

From June 10th onward, all eyes in the world of football will be on France, and the guests aboard AIDA ships will be at the party too, cheering on and celebrating their favorite teams. (more…)

On the morning of April 27, 2016, AIDAprima, the new flagship of AIDA Cruises, docked in Britain’s Southampton port for the first time as part of a four-day short cruise. (more…)

On the occasion of AIDAprima’s first docking in Rotterdam on April 19, 2016, AIDA Cruises and Shell sealed their partnership for the future supply of LNG to AIDAprima and her sistership AIDAperla.

On March 14, 2016, AIDA Cruises took delivery of its first newbuild of a new ship generation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) in Nagasaki during a formal ceremony. (more…)

Around 1.8 million Germans took a cruise in 2015, more than 800,000 of them on board one of the 10 ships of the AIDA fleet. (more…)