Costa Cruises is ready to set sail again and offer guests holidays filled with leisure and relaxation, along with enhanced health and safety protocols.
The restart begins on March 27 with the departure of Costa Smeralda. With an unchanged itinerary Costa Cruises‘ flagship will bring 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 May 1, 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).
A second ship, Costa Luminosa, will also be back in service. Costa Luminosa will depart from Trieste on May 2 and the following day from Bari. The ship will sail a series of one-week cruises to Greece and Croatia.
Costa is working with national and local authorities of the countries included in the itineraries of its ships outside Italy to define the details of the restart of cruise operations, with enhanced health and safety measures through 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 the use of protective face masks when necessary.
All other cruises scheduled until the end of May will be cancelled. For more details and booking options visit costacruises.eu.