Aida Cruises announced the farewell season of the cruise ship AIDAaura which will depart the fleet in September 2023, after more than 20 years in service.
The ship will offer 14-day voyages to South Africa and Namibia during its farewell season, beginning on January 9, 2023, in Cape Town.
On March 6, 2023, a 27-day voyage from South Africa to Hamburg, via Namibia, Cape Verde, and Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain, will begin in the Cape of Good Hope metropolis.
Other highlights in April 2023 are the "Norway Grand Round Trip" to the North Cape during Easter, which also has the motto "Springtime" (Spring Awakening), or two new 7-day cruises with AIDAaura from/to Hamburg to the Norwegian Fjords and to Scotland. They can also be booked as a 14-day cruise.
From mid-May to early July 2023, AIDA guests can visit historic cities, legendary places, or impressive landscapes on various voyages from/to Hamburg to the rivers of Western Europe, to Great Britain, France, or Ireland. These include Saint Malo in France, Edinburgh, and Loch Ness near Invergordon in Scotland, Falmouth in southern England or the Orkney Islands, the Isle of Skye, and the Outer Hebrides.
In July and August 2023, it's time to set sail from Hamburg and Bremerhaven on 21-day cruises to Iceland and Greenland with glacier and iceberg passages in Prince Christian Sund or Disko Bay.
AIDAur's final voyage for AIDA Cruises runs from 9-21 September 2023 from/to Bremerhaven, among other places on the Thames to Tilbury at the gateway to the British capital London, in France on the Seine to Rouen or in Belgium on the Scheldt to Antwerp.
Since her christening on April 12, 2003 in Rostock-Warnemunde, the Wismar-built cruise ship has visited the most beautiful destinations around the world on more than 800 voyages. In the inaugural season 2003/2004, AIDAaura was the official German Olympic boat during the Summer Games in Athens and also sailed to destinations in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Central America. Other highlights included exclusive AIDAselection trips to Mauritius and Seychelles, the Orient, India and Greenland, as well as Iceland and Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. As part of the winter 2018/2019 world tour, AIDAura guests visited 41 destinations on four continents in 117 days.
