MSC Sails Into Sarande
MSC Cruises has released details of its itineraries in the Mediterranean for the 2017 summer season, and for its itineraries in the Antilles for the 2017-2018 winter season.
The cruise company also released today updated itineraries for its ships serving the Caribbean between December 2017 and May 2018.
Starting in April 2017, MSC Cruises will add a new destination to its Eastern Mediterranean itineraries, becoming the first global cruise line to call at the port of Sarande in Albania on a weekly basis.
MSC Poesia passengers departing from Venice will have the opportunity to discover Sarande – a key new addition to the itinerary now featuring 7 destinations in 7 days – as well as visit Bari, Italy; Katakolon/Olympia, Mykonos – the jewel of the Cyclades, – and Athens/Piraeus in Greece; and Dubrovnik in Croatia.
Beginning in November 2017 – and in response to strong market interest and demand from travellers – the MSC Fantasia will replace MSC Orchestra in the Antilles and the South Caribbean.
MSC Fantasia will depart from Fort de France, Martinique and Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, with two different itineraries that can be combined to make one longer journey.
One itinerary explores the Antilles with calls in St. Maarten, Philipsburg; Road Town, Tortola; the new port of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines – instead of La Romana, Dominican Republic; Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis; and St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda.
The other itinerary visits the pearls of the South Caribbean, including Castries, Saint Lucia; Bridgetown, Barbados; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; St. George’s, Grenada; and Roseau, Dominica.
In the Caribbean, in conjunction with the additional enhancements that have been planned ahead of the opening of the exclusive Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve destination – now scheduled for October 2018 – the MSC Cruises ships in the region that previously were scheduled to call this new destination between December 2017 and May 2018, will now call ports in other attractive destinations in the Caribbean and continue to offer top-level quality destinations across all itineraries in the region.
As a result, for the Eastern Caribbean 7-night itinerary, MSC Seaside will be calling at Philipsburg (St. Maarten), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Nassau (Bahamas), instead of Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas), Nassau (Bahamas) and Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.
For the Western Caribbean 7-night itinerary, visiting the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Mexico, MSC Seaside will now be calling at Nassau (Bahamas) instead of Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.
MSC Cruises other ship in the region, MSC Divina, on her 10- and 11-night cruises to Panama or Antilles, will call now at Nassau or Freeport (Bahamas), Fort de France (Martinique) or San Juan (Puerto Rico), instead of Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.
For more, sail on over to http://www.msccruises.com.
