Costa Resumes Its
Cruises Starting From May
GENOA, Italy, March 22, 2021 -- Costa Cruises, the
Italian company of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL;
NYSE: CUK), has revised its plans moving its restart
to May. The decision has been taken in
consideration of the restrictions still in place in Italy and
other European countries to contain Covid-19. Such
measures do not allow the Company to offer the best cruise
vacations to its guests, especially for what concerns the
experience ashore.
In line with the new plan, Costa Smeralda's departure in
Italy is planned for May
1st, with an unchanged itinerary, sailing guests to
beautiful Italian locations, with 3- and 4-day mini-cruises or
alternatively a 7-day cruise, calling at Savona, La Spezia,
Civitavecchia, Naples, Messina and Cagliari.
From June 12, Costa Smeralda will return to
sailing one-week cruises in the western Mediterranean, with visits
to Italy
(Savona, Civitavecchia and Palermo), France (Marseille) and Spain (Barcelona and Palma de
Mallorca).
The departure date of Costa Luminosa, the
second Costa ship scheduled to resume service, is
postponed to May 16 from Trieste, and the
following day from Bari, confirming its program of one-week cruises
in Greece and Croatia, in accordance with recent roadmap for
the resumption of international tourism in Greece.
The restart of Costa cruises will continue to be supported by
the implementation of the Costa Safety Protocol. The
protocol contains operational measures related to all aspects of
the cruise experience, both on board and ashore, which were
implemented in the past months of cruise operations. Such
measures include limited capacity, swab tests for all guests and
crew, temperature checks when disembarking and re-embarking the
ship, protected shore excursions, physical distancing on board and
at the cruise terminals, new ways of using on-board services,
enhanced sanitation and medical services, and use of protective
face masks when necessary.
Furthermore, the company is also working with national and local
authorities of the countries included in the itineraries of its
ships outside Italy to define the
details of the resumption of its cruise operations.
As previously announced, all other cruises scheduled until the
end of May, and not included in the Costa Smeralda and Costa
Luminosa programs updated today, are cancelled. Costa is in
the process of informing travel agents and customers affected by
changes.
CONTACT: Costa Cruises Press Office, Tel. +39 010 5483523 / 010
5483068, costapressoffice@costa.it, or Gabriele Baroni, Corporate Communication &
Media Relations Director, cell. +39 3497668013,
baroni@costa.it, or Rossella
Carrara, V. P. Corporate Relations & Sustainability
Costa Group, rossella.carrara@costa.it, or Davide Barbano, Media Relations manager, cell.
334 6525216, barbano@costa.it