by to carry 483 passengersmainly Americans, but also from the Balkans and Europeans, sailed today, Sunday at 10:00 a.m. port her Thessalonikithe cruise ship”celestial crystalfrom Piraeus and will set sail at 7:00 p.m. for Kusadasi in Türkiye.
Speaking to the APE-MPE executive of “Kosmatos”, who is the agent of the cruise ship, several of the passengers of the aforementioned cruise ship will visit Vergina in Imathia and Dion in Pieria, while the others will “vote” their city tour, taking part in the organized four-hour city tour, with visits to attractions such as the White Tower, Agios Dimitrios, the Rotunda and the Castles.
It is recalled that the “celestial Crystal“, will dock at the port of Thessaloniki this year 31 timeswith her next arrival in the city scheduled for May 21, 2023, as listed on the OLTH SA website.
In fact, the “Celestyal Crystal”, according to today’s information on the OLTH SA website, is the cruise ship whose arrival at the port of Thessaloniki on December 17 will end this season. In her last scheduled arrival this year, she will drop anchor at Thermaikos at around eight o’clock in the morning from Piraeus and depart at three o’clock in the afternoon for Izmir.
With today’s data, for the 2023 have been confirmed 69 cruise ship arrivals in the port of Thessaloniki, by 22 companies, five of which, in fact, included the city in their program for the first time. “Cruising is a dynamic product and it is precisely for this reason that there are fluctuations in the planning of arrivals at the city’s port”, underlined an executive of OLTH SA at the APE-MBE, in answer to a related question.
It is recalled that in 2022, 61 cruise ships docked at the port of Thessaloniki, compared to 17 in 2021, while last year their arrival began earlier than any other year, on February 5, and the last “moored » on 22/12/2022.
It is also underlined that from 2021, after 15 years, the port of Thessaloniki, having implemented all the necessary preventive health and safety measures and having responded effectively to the recommendations of national and regional health and of civil protection, has been included in the list of ports homeport. In other words, he was called cruise start and end portwith the possibility of embarking and/or disembarking passengers.
Thus, the port of Thessaloniki is a port of embarkation and/or disembarkation of passengers on cruise ships, not only for local passengers, but also for those coming from abroad – both from close neighboring countries and from any country with a direct air link to Thessaloniki – and want to use the city’s new airport and hotel infrastructure.
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to carry 483 passengersmainly Americans, but also from the Balkans and Europeans, sailed today, Sunday at 10:00 a.m. port her Thessalonikithe cruise ship”celestial crystalfrom Piraeus and will set sail at 7:00 p.m. for Kusadasi in Türkiye.
Speaking to the APE-MPE executive of “Kosmatos”, who is the agent of the cruise ship, several of the passengers of the aforementioned cruise ship will visit Vergina in Imathia and Dion in Pieria, while the others will “vote” their city tour, taking part in the organized four-hour city tour, with visits to attractions such as the White Tower, Agios Dimitrios, the Rotunda and the Castles.
It is recalled that the “celestial Crystal“, will dock at the port of Thessaloniki this year 31 timeswith her next arrival in the city scheduled for May 21, 2023, as listed on the OLTH SA website.
In fact, the “Celestyal Crystal”, according to today’s information on the OLTH SA website, is the cruise ship whose arrival at the port of Thessaloniki on December 17 will end this season. In her last scheduled arrival this year, she will drop anchor at Thermaikos at around eight o’clock in the morning from Piraeus and depart at three o’clock in the afternoon for Izmir.
With today’s data, for the 2023 have been confirmed 69 cruise ship arrivals in the port of Thessaloniki, by 22 companies, five of which, in fact, included the city in their program for the first time. “Cruising is a dynamic product and precisely because of this there are fluctuations in the planning of arrivals at the city port”, underlined an executive of OLTH SA to the APE-MBE, in response to a related question. .
It is recalled that in 2022, 61 cruise ships docked at the port of Thessaloniki, compared to 17 in 2021, while last year their arrival began earlier than any other year, on February 5, and the last “moored » on 22/12/2022.
It is also underlined that from 2021, after 15 years, the port of Thessaloniki, having implemented all the necessary preventive health and safety measures and having responded effectively to the recommendations of national and regional health and of civil protection, has been included in the list of ports homeport. In other words, he was called cruise start and end portwith the possibility of embarking and/or disembarking passengers.
Thus, the port of Thessaloniki is a port of embarkation and/or disembarkation of passengers on cruise ships, not only for local passengers, but also for those coming from abroad – both from close neighboring countries and from any country with a direct air link to Thessaloniki – and want to use the city’s new airport and hotel infrastructure.
