In sight of its Viking Ocean Cruises debut it increases the offer of routes in the Mediterranean



The debut of the American company of fluvial cruises Viking Cruises in the field of the oceanic cruises with the new Viking Ocean Cruises brand and the employment of before the two ships ordered to the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri ( on 12 July 2012) it will be carried out for good part in the Mediterranean.

The construction of before the two ships, Viking Star of 47.800 tons of tonnage and the ability to 928 passengers, is begun last june in the ship yard of Marghera that will at the beginning complete it of 2015. From the April month the unit will carry out maiden voyages in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea and therefore will be employed in the western Mediterranean and oriental beginning from the same spring of 2015.

The American company has announced that the reservations for the programmed cruises for the 2015 have collected a success recording almost "full house" and, as a result of the elevated question, Viking Cruises has announced new routes in the Mediterranean and the possibility to reserve cruises that they will be carried out in 2016. "We are pleased - it has explained the chairman of Viking Cruises, Torstein Hagen - to announce ulterior cruises in the Mediterranean that will allow with the hosts to discover some of the beautifulst cities of Europe". "Our routes in the Mediterranean - it has emphasized Hagen - are sold to a rhythm unprecedented".

Besides the cruises in the Mediterranean programmed with departure from Venice and ports of call in Croatia, Montenegro, Greece and Turkey and with departure from Barcelona and ports of call in France, Monk, Italy (Livorno, Civitavecchia, Naples and Venice), Greece, Croatia, Montenegro and Turkey, Viking Star it will offer cruises of eight days from Barcelona to Rome (Civitavecchia) with stages to Tolone, in Corsica, to Montecarlo and in Tuscany (Livorno), cruises of eight days from Rome (Civitavecchia) to Barcelona with destinations in Italy (Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), in Tunisia and Spain (Palma de Mallorca and Valencia), cruises of 15 days with departure and arrival to Barcelona and ports of call to Tolone, Monk, Corsica, Tuscany (Livorno), Rome (Civitavecchia), Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, Tunisi Palma de Mallorca and Valencia and cruises of 15 days always with departure and arrival to Barcelona and destinations in France (Tolone, Montecarlo and Corsica), Italy (Tuscany/Livorno and Sardinia), Tunisia, Spain (Valencia), Malta and Algeria.