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7 Night Middle East Cruise On AIDAcosma Departing From Dubai

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

31 March, 2023 (421 days left)

• Ship: AIDAcosma
• Cruise Line: AIDA Cruises
• Departure From: Dubai
• Departure Date: 31 March, 2023
• Cruise Length: 8 days / 7 nights
• Price From: 399€
• Price Per Night: 57€
• Published: 12 February, 2023
• Updated: 01 March, 2023

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7-night Middle East cruises on AIDA Cruises flagship AIDAcosma departing from Dubai in March, 2023 from 399€ per person. 

AIDA’s price always includes mealtime drinks in the buffet restaurant(beer, table wine) and service charges.  Check out our AIDA Cruises Complete Guide

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Ship Statistics

• Date Launched: 2021
• Age of Ship: 3 years
• Tonnage: 183,900 grt
• Length: 1106 ft
• Guest Capacity: 6,600
• Total Staff: 1,500 crew
• Staterooms: 2,600
• Class: Helios

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AIDAcosma kicks off Dubai Harbour cruise season a week after TUI from Port Rashid

Dubai’s new seafront district Dubai Harbour has received its first cruise ship of the 2022/23 Arabian Gulf cruise season with the arrival of AIDAcosma.

AIDAcosma is a German mega ship for AIDA Cruises , carrying more than 5,500 passengers, and at 180,000-gross tons is one of the largest cruise ships to homeport in the region.

Although AIDAcosma is the first cruise ship to arrive at Dubai Harbour, she is not the first ship of the season for Dubai, as Mein Schiff 6 of TUI Cruises arrived at Port Rashid last week.

AIDAcosma at sea

Like MSC World Europa, AIDAcosma is homeporting in Dubai for her maiden cruise season, and will sail roundtrip 7-day cruises from the city to ports in the UAE and Oman.

Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal officials marked the occasion with a plaque exchange with the ships captain, a maritime tradition, to commemorate its maiden call.

AIDAcosma will contribute to the more than 300,000 cruise tourists that are expected to visit Dubai through Dubai Harbour during the current cruise season, making up a significant portion of the more than 800,000 expected in the city as a whole.

AIDAcosma features a range of exciting experiences and amenities including a Fun Park, children’s pool, water slide, an outdoor sports deck, and 17 restaurants and 23 lounges, serving a wide variety of cuisines from around the world.

“We are excited to return to Dubai Harbour – this time round with the maiden call of our youngest fleet member AIDAcosma,” said Alexander Ewig, Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales at AIDA Cruises.

“Through AIDAcosma, we are continuing on our path to green cruising and are elated to be collaborating with Dubai Harbour to do so,” he added. “We are sure our guests will have a great time, as they set sail on a tour of the region this winter 2022/2023, specifically at Dubai Harbour with its line-up of entertaining events and activities, alongside the magnificent Dubai skyline.”

The cruise terminals, which are part of the Dubai Harbour development, showcase the Dubai JBR skyline to guests and offer a wide array of amenities and services for passengers and crew – from ample seating areas to washrooms, currency exchange outlets, ATMs, Emirates Airline Check-in facility, cafes, retail outlets, Duty-Free, dedicated parking, taxi stands and more.

All facilities are wheelchair accessible and complimentary WIFI is enabled for passengers and crew to stay connected.

AIDAcosma arrives at Dubai Harbour

The wider Dubai Harbour is home to a wide range of upscale living, retail and hospitality experiences that combine to form a vibrant maritime lifestyle offering. The area is also within easy reach of the city’s key landmarks – including the Burj Al Arab, Ain Dubai, Bluewaters Island, and Palm Jumeirah.

As part of the Carnival Corporation group, AIDA Cruises has exclusively access to Dubai Harbour alongside Costa Cruises. The Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal was built in partnership by Shamal Holdings and Carnival Corporation to be the cruise company’s regional base of operations.

The Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal comprises two terminal buildings that offer passengers and crew a safe, comfortable, and seamless experience.

Designed to process over 3,250 passengers per hour, the highly efficient and modern terminals are located on a 910-metre pier, and can accommodate two mega cruise ships simultaneously.

All other cruise lines visiting Dubai and cruising from the city continue to use Port Rashid, which is home to the Dubai Cruise Terminal, one of the largest cruise infrastructure projects in the world.

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AIDAcosma current position

AIDAcosma current location is at West Mediterranean (coordinates 39.54735 N / 2.63082 E) cruising en route to Palma de Mallorca. The AIS position was reported 7 minutes ago.

Current itinerary of AIDAcosma

AIDAcosma current cruise is 14 days, round-trip Grose Mittelmeer-Reise Ab Mallorca 1 . The itinerary starts on 11 May, 2024 and ends on 25 May, 2024 .

Specifications of AIDAcosma

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AIDAcosma Itineraries

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The 2021-built/2022-inaugurated AIDAcosma cruise ship was constructed by Meyer Werft (in Papenburg Germany ). This is the second of two HELIOS-class AIDA liners, with sistership AIDAnova (2018). Excellence/Helios-Class was preceded by Hyperion-Class ( AIDAprima and AIDAperla ).

The vessel (IMO number 9781877) is currently Italy- flagged (MMSI 247435300) and registered in Genova .

AIDAcosma is the fleet's 14th boat and AIDA's 9th vessel built in Papenburg. Other Excellence-Class liners (AIDAcosma sisterships) are P&O Iona (2020), P&O Arvia (2022), Costa Smeralda (2019), Costa Toscana (2021), Carnival Mardi Gras (2021), Carnival Celebration (2022), Carnival Jubilee (2023).

History - construction and ownership

AIDA Cruises is a Rostock -headquartered subsidiary company owned by Carnival Corporation . AIDA is Europe's largest German cruise line (followed by TUI ) targeting younger and more active travelers. AIDA was founded in 1960 (as "Deutsche Seereederei") and in 2000 was acquired by P&O Princess Cruises, which merged with Carnival Corporation (shipowner) in 2003. AIDA's first World Cruise (AIDAcara) was in 2017-2018 (October-February) with 116-day roundtrip itinerary from Hamburg Germany .

The 5400-passenger ship AIDAcosma (IMO number 9781877) is Italy- flagged (MMSI 247435300) and among the world's largest passenger liners and the most technologically advanced vessels. Besides the ship's staff and crew, AIDA cruise passengers are also served by Peper robots - the latest cyborg technology implemented fleetwide in 2016. These humanoid robots greet and guide passengers upon embarkation. They also assist them throughout the cruise by providing information and tips on onboard dining, entertainment, enrichment program (workshops, pre-scheduled events), casino and shopping promotions, shore excursions and tours. Pepper robots are mobile and communicate in 3 languages (English, German, Italian). They can also interpret human emotions by analyzing voice tones and facial expressions.

Decks and Cabins

AIDAcosma has a total of 2600 passenger staterooms in 21 categories and on 11 cabin decks. A new type is the Einzelkabine (Single Cabin), which is planned to be introduced fleetwide during AIDA's next scheduled drydock refurbishments . A new suite-type is the Duplex Suite (aft on Deck 12), which is a 2-deck accommodation sized 73 m2 (with 20-m2 private sundeck).

Suites' amenities include a private sundeck area (large outdoor terrace), separate bedroom, sofa bed, 2 bathrooms (bathrobes, slippers, luxury bath products), queen beds, pillow menu (5 different pillows) plus bonus perks (amenities and services).

Standard cabin balconies are equipped with padded deckchairs and coffee tables. Junior Suites are with separate "conservatory" (lounge room, sized 7 m2) plus a step-out balcony (4 m2). The lounge room's glass door can be opened to double the veranda's size. The conservatory is temperature-controlled (via suite's heater).

Deluxe Balconies have a large-sized veranda (5-13 m2). Comfort Balconies are the ship's main "family cabin" type. They are larger than the standard Balkonkabine and also have double sofabeds for quad occupancy. Category DL (Verandakabine Deluxe with Lounge) is for 5 passengers. Oceanview and Interior cabins are with lower twin beds (convertible to double / Queen-size).

The boat has 20 decks , of which 17 are passenger-accessible and 11 with cabins.

All staterooms offer as standard (complimentary) amenities electronic safe box (in the closet), spacious wardrobe (some with walk-in closet), low table with lounge chairs, double bed (most convertible to twins), Pullman beds (in most quads), bedside tables, wall-mounted reading lamps, direct dial phone (baby monitoring option), smart HDTV (infotainment system - satellite reception, Internet, movies-on-demand, ship info channel, real-time camera views), LED lighting, mirrored dressing table (writing desk) with chair, en-suite bathroom (toilet, shower cabin, single-sink vanity, hairdryer), individually controlled air-conditioning.

Shipboard dining options - Food and Drinks

The new AIDAcosma has a variety of dining options. Among its 17 dining venues are the specialty restaurants Casa Nova, French Kiss, and Brauhaus, as well as 5 buffet restaurants (including the family-themed Fuego), the classic Bella Donna and Markt Restaurant. Guests onboard can visit the AIDA cooking school and try interactive cooking classes.

The ship has a total of 23 bars and lounges and features an exclusive Spray Bar - spreading across 2 decks and operated via a partnership with Moet & Chandon (1869-established French champagne producer). At the ship's stern is the Lanai Bar (Deck 8). At Patio Bar (Deck 16 aft) passengers can enjoy the same view as the Captain. Other bars are the nightclub Nightfly, M Bar, Tapas & Bar, club D6.

Follows the complete list of AIDAcosma restaurants and food bars.

• Scharfe Ecke (Sharp Corner, complimentary fast-food dining venue)
• Rossini (a specialty, dinner-only restaurant at surcharge, reservations required; offers waiter service and 6-course a-la-carte menu)
• Markt Restaurant (complimentary main dining room; self-service buffet restaurant with a variety of food stations and a small terrace)
• Mamma Mia (Italian cuisine restaurant, complimentary, buffet-style dining, open 24 hours)
• Ristorante Casa Nova (Mediterranean cuisine restaurant at a surcharge)
• Brasserie French Kiss (French cuisine restaurant, reservations-only, at a surcharge)
• Brauhaus (specialty restaurant, reservations-only, at a surcharge)
• Weite Welt Restaurant (Wide World complimentary buffet-style restaurant)
• Buffalo Steakhouse (American fare restaurant with a la carte menu; reservations required; at a surcharge)
• Sushi Bar (Japanese restaurant at surcharge, reservations are required)
• Fuego Restaurant (new family restaurant, complimentary, with a kids buffet)
• East Restaurant (Asian cuisine, buffet-style complimentary restaurant)
• Time Machine Restaurant is a new dinner-only restaurant with fantasy-themed entertainment
• Kochstudio (Cooking Studio for culinary classes, workshops, master chefs presentations; reservations are required)

Shipboard entertainment options - Fun and Sport

Deck 16 features an activity deck with an aquapark (Fun Park) with water slides (a dual waterslide plus a single Water Slide), High Rope Garden (Ropes Course), Mini-Golf Course, Bouldering Wall. The beach club (introduced with the Hyperion-class) is also available on the Helios-class ships. The aft-located Pool Deck is covered by a sliding glass roof (lightweight mobile construction) extending across the boat's entire width.

Passengers can unwind by Beach Club's swimming pool. At night, this area turns into a deck party zone. The Cube dance club and the Casino also offer nighttime live entertainment. The Beach Club is beneath the expandable membrane roof. It features a dedicated family activities area "Four Elements" (based on water, air, fire, and earth). Four Elements is an outdoor playground on Sports Deck fitted with 2 waterslides (3-decks high), rock climbing walls, rope course. This deck also has a giant LED screen for movies and other outdoor video entertainment. In addition to the Teens and Kids Clubs on board, for the first time, there is a Mini Club for infants from 6 months.

The panoramic glass elevators which connect the outdoor areas, as well as the glass 45-meter above water level skywalk are among the other highlights. Organic treatments pamper at the Body & Soul Organic Spa. AIDA Plaza offers a wealth of bars and shops and functions as a meeting place and a stage for street performers.

AIDAcosma offers different and innovative entertainment experiences for all ages in a total of thirteen venues. Apart from popular shows of the cruise line, such as "Wer wird Millionär" (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?), "The Voice of the Ocean" and "AIDA Stars" vacationers benefit from new entertainment formats which are exclusively available onboard AIDAcosma. The enhanced Theatrium is the heart of onboard entertainment - its round stage is the trademark of AIDA Cruises. The Theatrium is great to enjoy entertainment as well as relax during the day. However, in the evenings it's the spot for shows on the 360-degree stage, with technical highlights like 11 LED walls, 7 laser shows and LED Tube inclusive of "artistes" elevator.

Some of the shows premiered on AIDAcosma include:

• "AIDA LOVE" is an adventure-packed show celebrating birthdays, weddings, honeymoons. The audience may become part of the show via a special phone app.
• "Avona Dia" is a family show with imaginative choreography created by Cirque du Soleil star Benjamin Pring.
• "Nashville - Just Good Music: It rocks!" is a live concert with American rock's greatest hits.
• "Show me! YELLO!" combines music and videos of Swiss electronic duo band YELLO with a pyrotechnical display, acrobatics, dance, and extravagant scenery.
• "Steampunk Circus" show is fantasy-themed (magical world), featuring special effects, original costumes, specially created music by Stefan Richter.

The list of new facilities introduced first on AIDAcosma includes:

• Studio X makes AIDAcosma the fleet's second ship with a TV studio at sea and its own station (Prime Time One). Passengers can observe live AIDA Cruises TV shows, how are produced, and also to experience the new AIDA TV guessing show for kids "1, 2 or 3".
• "The Pyramid Kids" entertainment program offers new games and quizzes. "Keep Your Light On" (modern version of hangman) is played in teams wearing LED suits. Kids and Teens Workshops offer interactive games and video making and editing.
• "The Mystery Room" serves treasure hunt players searching for the Holy Grail.
• "The Rock Box" music room/karaoke bar has a jukebox and also hosts live performances.
• Mysterious elevator access the new "Time Machine Restaurant" - the realm of Professor Tempus who welcomes passengers for a 3-course dinner and takes them on a voyage through time.

Follows the complete list of AIDAcosma lounges, clubs and other entertainment venues for kids, teens, and adults.

• Pier 3 Bar (coffee bar)
• Spray Bar (adults-only 2-level luxury lounge & Champagne bar via a partnership with French winery "Moet & Chandon")
• Diskothek (The Cube) is a nightclub with DJ program, light shows, themed dance parties.
• Nachtclub Nightfly (adult-only nightclub lounge with grand piano, live band music, and its own bar)
• Tapas & Bar
• AIDA Plaza (2-deck high, open-floor Atrium lounge with bars and live entertainment; luxury boutique shopping arcade)
• Jewelry Shop; Travel Shop; PhotoShop; Sports Shop; Parfumerie; Kids Shop; Treasure Chest Shop
• Kids Club (AIDA Cruises kids program is complimentary, with supervised, age-appropriate activities: the 3 age groups include Seahorses for 3-6 yo, Dolphins for 7-9 yo and Sharks 10-11 yo; the Kids Club has an outdoor area with a paddling pool)
• AIDA Bar (cocktail bar with live music)
• Art Gallery (Kunstgalerie; sells original artworks of renowned art schools and German artists; hosts art auctions)
• AIDA Lounge (with 270-degree panoramic views and comfortable seating)
• The Library (Bibliotek; offers card and board games)
• Casino (served by Casino Bar)
• Theatrium is a 3-deck high, big-capacity show lounge with large round-shaped central stage with a dynamic platform and 11x LED screen covered walls. This is a combined Atrium-Theater-Lounge for daily entertainment, large-scale evening productions, cabaret, and magician shows. Here are presented 7 differently themed laser shows. The theater lounge is served by Theatrium Bar.
• Eiscafe (ice cream parlor Ice cafe Erste Sahne)
• Cafe Mare (patisserie & specialty coffee bar)
• Vinotek (fine wines shop; offers sommelier service and wine tasting events)
• Brauhaus (beerhouse; onboard brewery, purified seawater is used for brewing beer; the Beer House sells its own draft beers)
• Destille (Distillery; fruit spirits bar)
• AIDA Bar (big-capacity lounge with panoramic windows)
• Photo Gallery & Shop (professional photo and video services, duty-free accessories and equipment; new feature are the photo kiosks with touch-screens /face-recognition system)
• AIDA Shop (duty-free merchandise at discount prices; the shopping arcade has a general store selling liquor and tobaccos, as well as small boutiques for jewelry, luxury watches, perfumes, brand fashion clothing, AIDA logo goods)
• Beauty Salon (Friseur; provides hairdresser, barber services, professional manicure/pedicure Nail Spa)
• Body & Soul Sports Fitness Centre (with a modern Gym and separate area for classes)
• Zen Lounge (relaxation room; hosts indoor classes)
• Blutenmeer (Blooming Sea flower shop)
• "The Mystery Room" is a new venue dedicated to onboard treasure hunt games.
• "Rock Box" is a music room/karaoke bar with a jukebox and also hosting live performances.
• "Studio X" is the ship's TV Room producing live AIDA-themed shows.
• Lanai Bar (with outdoor seating area)
• Aft Sundeck area (with 4 infinity pools)
• Wave Club (water playground and teens club with supervised activities in two age groups - Orcas for 12 -13 yo and Teens 14 -17 yo; complimentary)
• Body & Soul Organic SPA complex (3100 m2, with indoor/outdoor pools, big whirlpools and retractable glass roof; offers Japanese Tea Ceremony, body scrubs, and wraps; facilities include 5 saunas, treatment rooms, Rasul bath, relaxation room, shower room, conservatory, luxury Spa Suites, SPA Bar)
• AIDA Lounge (with 270-degree panorama views, comfortable couches, and tables); Sunset Bar
• Mini Club (childcare/babysitting services for toddlers and little kids 6 months to 3yo)
• "Four Elements" (Water Park with rock climbing walls, pools and whirlpools, splash pool and fountains for children, a stage for live shows, huge LED screen, 2 water slides, rope course. This activity/sports deck is covered with a sliding glass roof. In the evenings, Four Elements transforms into a deck party/dancing zone with live music.
• Bar 5 Elements (serving the Aqua Park complex)
• AIDA Beach Club (2-deck high relaxation oasis, covered with a glass dome for tropical beach-like experience with live plants and palm trees; in the evenings, the club is transformed into a party zone)
• Sundeck / sunbathing area (Freibereich, located above the swimming pool; with loungers, served by the Pool Bar); Top Deck is dedicated to Freikorperkultur / FKK Bereich nudist area with sun loungers)
• Sun Deck games area (Sonnendeck - Freibereich, with shuffleboard, giant chess, Boccia, backgammon, darts, table tennis)
• Patio deck (exclusive, covered deck area for Panorama cabin guests only, adult-only)
• Sports Deck area (Sportaussendeck with a combined sports court volleyball/basketball, Golf Cage, putting green area, golf simulator)
• Rock Climbing Walls; High Ropes Course; Power Walking/Jogging Track.

Itineraries

AIDAcosma cruise itinerary program was originally based on homeporting in Kiel Germany (Saturday departures) for roundtrips to Baltic Sea ports - in Norway (Norwegian Fjords), Estonia, Finland, Russia. For the period May thru October (2021) were planned two alternating 7-day Baltic itineraries. Depending on the date, the liner had planned overnights in St Petersburg (Russia) , Tallinn (Estonia) , Helsinki (Finland) .

For winter 2021-2022 season, the boat was scheduled for homeporting in the UAE ( Dubai and Abu Dhabi ) with 7-day roundtrips to Doha Qatar and Mina Salman-Manama Bahrain . However, in May 2021, AIDA replaced the program with 7-day Canary Islands itineraries leaving roundtrip from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (homeport). AIDAcosma's original schedule for 2021 (October 23 thru December 21) was canceled, and the Dubai program was allocated to AIDAnova .

Eventually, the Maiden Voyage was rescheduled for February 26, 2022 (5-day Hamburg to Rotterdam, with call ports Southampton England, Cherbourg France, Zeebrugge Belgium). The 7-day Mediterranean itinerary program (maiden voyage April 22nd) was based on alternating roundtrips from two homeports ( Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca/Majorca Island, Balearic Spain ) and call ports La Spezia , Civitavecchia-Rome , Ajaccio, Corsica France . The Arabian/Red Sea deployment (homeporting in Dubai and Abu Dhabi) was also rescheduled for 2022-2023 (November thru April).

Serving mainly the German-speaking market, the AIDA ship Cosma also offers fly-cruise deals from Germany and also from the UK.

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In July 2015, Carnival Corporation signed a shipbuilding agreement with Meyer Werft for the construction of all 4 new-class (Excellence, aka Helios) vessels. Of these, 2 liners were for Costa Cruises ( Smeralda /2019 and Toscana /2021 ) and the other 2 for AIDA ( AIDAnova /2018 and AIDAcosma /2021). On February 27, 2018, Carnival Corporation signed a shipbuilding contract for a 3rd AIDA ship (delivery in 2023) but in June 2021 decided the liner ( Carnival Jubilee ) to be assigned to CCL-Carnival . This was the 98th ship order for the cruise industry's global fleet (vessels in the order book 2018-2026).

Carnival Corporation's new liners all use LNG powerplants (with four Caterpillar-MaK marine engines) that fully comply with IMO's latest regulations. The vessel's design, architecture and machinery features include weight-optimized materials, optimized paints (reducing underwater resistance), innovative electric pod motors, modern heat recovery, navigation and automation systems.

Like most large -sized newbuilds , the AIDA ship Cosma is LNG-powered , with 4x Caterpillar Marine LNG engines (model MaK 16M-46DF) generating combined output 57,2 MW. The propulsion system is based on two Azimuting thrusters (combined power output 37 MW). The ship has 3x LNG tanks (cryogenic steel) with total capacity ~3200 m3. Two of the tanks are larger (length 35 m, diameter 8 m, LNG capacity 1525 m3), while the 3rd tank has length 28 m, diameter 5 m and capacity 520 m3.

The vessel's steel-cutting ceremony at Meyer Werft was held on August 15, 2019, with which officially started its construction. On October 15, 2019, was held the keel-laying ceremony during which the first hull block for AIDAcosma (yard/hull number 709) was put in place at Neptun Werft Shipyard in Rostock, Germany . The traditional coin ceremony's godmothers were Charleen Hoffmann (AIDA employee) and Kenny Schaft (Meyer Werft employee) who placed the specially minted coins under the vessel's first (of all 90) construction blocks. The special event was attended by Tim Meyer (Meyer Werft Shipyard's Managing Director), Manfred Ossevorth (Neptun Werft Shipyard's Director), Felix Eichhorn (AIDA's President), Birgit Hesse (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's President), Claus Ruhe Madsen (Rostock City's Mayor).

During the keel-laying ceremony was officially announced the name (AIDAcosma), homeport ( Kiel Germany ) and inaugural season (2021 summer itineraries/canceled in June 2021).

The ship was launched (floated out from drydock) at Papenburg Shipyard on July 10, 2021. The Ems River conveyance voyage (from Papenburg to Eemshaven Holland ) started on October 23rd. Two tugboats assisted the liner to leave Meyer Werft's dock lock. Followed the passing through Leer 's two bridges (Friesenbrucke and Jann-Berghaus-Brucke/Leer) and the arrival in Eemshaven (at 4:30 UTC) for the Baltic Sea trials.

The ship was officially delivered on December 21, 2021, in Port Bremerhaven . The first Master was Captain Vincent Cofalka.

Christening Voyage (2022)

The vessel's official christening/naming ceremony was held on April 9, 2022, in Port Hamburg/Hamburger Hafen , led by godmother Kristina Vogel who was accompanied by the ship's Master - Captain Vincent Cofalka.

Kristina Vogel (1990-born German track cyclist/bicycle racer) is paralyzed since 2018 when she crashed at the Cottbus velodrome. During her active career, she won two gold medals (Olympic Cycling Champions 2012 & 2016) and finished first at the UCI World Championships in 2014-15-16-17-18.

Next table shows the 14-day itinerary's ports of call and times.

The exclusive naming ceremony featured a special light show by ~300 drones and beam lighting making the entire liner shine. The 20-min show was held outdoor (on Sundeck/Pool Deck) and online-streamed. In addition to the ~3300 paying passengers, AIDAcosma's Christening Voyage was also attended by ~350 special guests and celebrity performers, including DJ Quads, DJ Alle Farben (1985-born house music producer/performing at the Pool Deck's Beach Club stage), DJ Mokabi (at Beach Club), Marc Jendrollik (singer from the party music band Gletscher Fezzzer), Reiner Meutsch (hosting on Radio RPR1 the show Mein Abenteuer), Joja Wendt (pianist), Wayne Morris (painter), Niko Formanek (stand-up comedian).

After the show, in the ship's Theatrium, Alle Farben performed a 1-hour concert, while at the Beach Club (Pool Deck), guests were entertained by Ingo Appelt (stand-up comedian) and DJ Mokabi (best known for his 2020-released hit song "The Passenger (LaLaLa)").

Inaugural itineraries 2022

In late-December 2021, AIDA announced that prior to her regular schedule, Cosma will operate mini-cruises (roundtrips from Hamburg and Rotterdam Holland ) starting on February 26, 2022.

• INAUGURAL CRUISE (February 26) 5-days Hamburg to Rotterdam (March 3) visiting Southampton, Cherbourg, Zeebrugge
• (Feb 26) 7-days roundtrip from Hamburg Southampton, Cherbourg, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam (overnight)
• (March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31) 7-days roundtrip from Rotterdam to Hamburg, Southampton, Cherbourg, Zeebrugge
• (March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2) 7-days roundtrip from Hamburg to Southampton, Cherbourg, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam (overnight)
• (April 7/repositioning) 15-days from Rotterdam to Barcelona (Apr 22), visiting Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Southampton, La Coruna, Lisbon, Cadiz-Sevilla, Malaga, Barcelona
• (April 9/repositioning) 14-days from Hamburg to Palma de Majorca (Apr 23), visiting Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Southampton, La Coruna, Lisbon, Cadiz-Sevilla, Malaga, Barcelona, Palma de Majorca
• (April 9/repositioning) 14-days from Hamburg to Barcelona (Apr 22) visiting Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Southampton, La Coruna, Lisbon, Cadiz-Sevilla, Malaga, Barcelona
• (April 11/repositioning) 12-days from Rotterdam to Palma de Majorca (Apr 23) visiting Zeebrugge, Southampton, La Coruna, Lisbon, Cadiz-Sevilla, Malaga, Barcelona, Palma de Majorca

Next tables show the ship's inaugural itineraries (by destination) scheduled for 2022. The originally planned for 2021 program was eventually canceled (in June 2021) due to the Coronavirus crisis.

(MAIDEN VOYAGE) 7-day "Mediterrane Schatze Ab Barcelona" itinerary

(inaugural Suez Canal repositioning) 20-day from Palma de Mallorca to Dubai

(inaugural Red Sea cruise) 7-day "Orient Ab Dubai 1" itinerary

(first departure from Abu Dhabi) 7-day "Orient Ab Abu Dhabi" itinerary

Inaugural itineraries 2021 (canceled)

The ship's inaugural cruise season (2021) was originally based on 7-day Baltic Sea roundtrips from Kiel Germany (Saturday departures). The itineraries were also combinable into 14-day B2Bs (back-to-back cruises) .

The maiden voyage was initially scheduled for May 8th but was eventually postponed through October 23. A total of 46x itineraries (Kiel roundtrips) were canceled. Next are listed the itinerary themes of the canceled voyages.

(Maiden Voyage) 7-day "Norwegen Ab Kiel" itinerary

7-day "Ostsee Ab Kiel" itinerary

14-day (B2B) "Norwegen und Ostsee" itinerary

(new Maiden Voyage/canceled) 13-day Baltic-Mediterranean relocation from Kiel to Palma de Mallorca Kiel

(inaugural Suez Canal transit/canceled) 20-day from Palma de Mallorca to Dubai

(inaugural Red Sea cruise/canceled) 7-day "Orient Ab Dubai 1" itinerary

For winter 2021-2022, the boat was scheduled for homeporting in the UAE ( Dubai and Abu Dhabi ) with 7-day roundtrips to Doha Qatar and Mina Salman-Manama Bahrain . However, in May 2021 AIDA replaced the program with 7-day Canary Islands itineraries leaving roundtrip from Gran Canaria.

• Cosma's original schedule for 2021 (October 23 thru December 21) was canceled, and the Red Sea/Dubai program was allocated to AIDAnova .
• Cosma's new Canaries program (January 5 through April 9, 2022) started with a Christmas and New Year's Eve cruise (December 22, 2021), which was also the ship's positioning voyage from Hamburg Germany to the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (homeport).
• Following the Canary Islands deployment, AIDAcosma had to relocate (April 13, 2022) to the Mediterranean for 7-day roundtrips from Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona .

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Dubai Harbour opens the 2022-23 cruise season with the arrival of AIDAcosma

Today Dubai Harbour welcomed its first cruise ship the AIDAcosma from the German cruise line Aida, officially starting its 2022/23 cruise season. AIDAcosma will use Dubai as a homeport departing on 7-night Orinet voyages to Muscat, and Abu Dhabi. AIDAcosma is one of the largest cruise ships within the AIDA fleet and is a first-of-its-kind liquid natural gas (LNG) powered ship with a capacity of over 5,500 guests. 

To mark the opening of the cruise season, DHCT Management along with public and private sector stakeholders will exchange plaques with the Ship Captain, a maritime tradition, to commemorate its maiden call. 

Throughout the season, more than 300,000 cruise passengers are expected to arrive at the Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal, marking accelerating growth for the cruise industry in the country.

“We are excited to return to Dubai Harbour – this time round with the maiden call of our youngest fleet member AIDAcosma. Through AIDAcosma, we are continuing on our path to green cruising and are elated to be collaborating with Dubai Harbour to do so. We are sure our guests will have a great time, as they set sail on a tour of the Orient this winter 2022/2023, specifically at Dubai Harbour with its line-up of entertaining events and activities, alongside the magnificent Dubai skyline,” Alexander Ewig, Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales at AIDA Cruises said:=.

As the owning-company and curator of Dubai Harbour, the diversified investment firm Shamal Holding is the driving force behind making Dubai Harbour an exceptional seafront district. The cruise terminals, which are part of the incredible Dubai Harbour development, showcase the spectacular and beautiful Dubai Harbour skyline to guests and offer a wide array of amenities and services for passengers and crew.

“Today is a very special day for us. This is not only the first time we have an LNG-powered cruise ship making its way to the city, but also a new cruise season that we look forward to with renewed excitement and anticipation. As we get ready to see full fleets get back in service, we believe there is great scope for extraordinary growth in the region. This includes more destinations, enhanced experiences and new types of cruise travellers. After the success of our last cruise season, we have continued to make investments across Dubai Harbour and Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminals and will also be extending our cruise season into the summer months of 2023 for the first time, with ships calling well into the month of June for overnight port stays for passenger turnaround. We look forward to continuing to play our part in welcoming more passengers and ships, as we aim to contribute to the region’s cruise tourism sector.” Abdulla Binhabtoor, Chief Portfolio Management Officer, Shamal Holding, the owner and curator of Dubai Harbour said.

“As Dubai continues to make waves across global tourism, the arrival of the first cruise travellers at Dubai Harbour for the new season will further reinforce Dubai’s position as a leading cruise tourism hub in line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to make our city the world’s most sought-after and visited destination. The continuous efforts of Shamal Holding to enhance Dubai’s cruise tourism sector by developing world-class projects, infrastructure and facilities such as the Dubai Harbour is a testament to the tireless efforts of our valued stakeholders and partners to expand Dubai’s diverse destination proposition. As sustainability and decarbonisation are crucial elements of Dubai’s tourism strategy, we welcome the arrival of eco-friendly cruise ships like the Aida Cosma, further boosting our efforts to become a major sustainable tourism destination. We are also proud to be consistently included as a key port of call by the world’s largest and most popular ocean liners, highlighting Dubai’s global reputation as the ultimate cruise gateway to the region.” H.E. Issam Kazim, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing, commented.

The infrastructure at the Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal comprises two terminal buildings that offer passengers and crew a safe, comfortable, and seamless experience. Designed to process over 3,250 passengers per hour, the highly efficient and modern terminals are located on a pier stretch of over 910 meters and can accommodate a complete passenger turnaround of two mega cruise ships simultaneously.

The purpose-built terminals ensure simplified and streamlined immigration, as well as customs screening processes, with the dedicated access routes for passengers and crew, facilitated by Seaport Passenger Boarding Bridges, allowing uninterrupted flow between the ship and the terminal.

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AIDA Cruises Reveals Itineraries for 2023-2024

• January 23, 2023

AIDA Cruises has announced its winter 2023-2024 program with bookings available from February 23, 2023, according to a press release.

AIDA’s winter 2023-2024 winter program includes cruises to the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Seychelles, as well programs in Asia and the Canary Islands 

Additionally, the AIDAnova will offer cruises from Hamburg starting in November 2023.

The AIDAsol will also set off on its 117-day world cruise in October 2023.

From November 11, 2023, from Hamburg, the AIDAnova will be offering cruises to metropolises and to Norway and Denmark until May 4, 2024. Guests onboard the AIDAnova will have the opportunity to enjoy the festive season in cities like London, Amsterdam, Paris, Oslo and Copenhagen.

After a summer in the Mediterranean, the AIDAcosma will offer cruises around the Canaries and to Madeira for the first time from November 2023 to April 2024. The seven-day cruises will depart from Gran Canaria or Tenerife. 

The AIDAprima will offer seven-day cruises from Dubai or Abu Dhabi to Muscat in Oman and to Doha (Qatar) or to the Kingdom of Bahrain and Sir Bani Yas.  The seven-day voyages can also be booked combined as 14-day trips.

The AIDAblu will offer cruises in the Indian Ocean with stops in Mauritius, Seychelles, La Reunión and Madagascar while the AIDAbella will sail to destinations in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore. 

Additionally, three new 21-day selection cruises from Bangkok/ Laem Chabang are in the program including the Christmas and New Year’s Eve voyage and the 21-day Easter voyage to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.

In the Caribbean, three AIDA Cruises ships will be offering cruises. The AIDAdiva, AIDAluna and AIDAperla will visit a wide range of islands including Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico. The AIDAdiva will be alternating on a route to Mexico and Belize as well as the Lesser Antilles. Embarkation is possible in four ports including the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Martinique and Barbados.

The AIDAsol will embark on a world tour in October 2023.  Starting in February 2024, the AIDAsol will embark on three voyages titled “Winter in the Far North”.

AIDA Cruises is offering a discount for early booking with a chance of saving up to 900 euros per person for winter departures 2023/24 when booking until April 30 or June 30, 2023.

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Wie seht ihr das?

Wir sind eigentlich Mein Schiff Fahrer. Sind aber auch schon mehrmals mit AIDA gefahren.

Nach zig Fahrten mit Mein Schiff sind wir nun da angelangt, um nur noch den Routen zu folgen…

Wir fahren im November mit der AIDAstella in 24 Tagen von Kapstadt nach Dubai. 3 Städte in Südafrika, La Réunion, Mauritius, 3 Inseln auf den Seychellen, Oman nach Dubai. Bietet so Mein Schiff nicht an.

Die Routen bestimmen ab nun unsere Kreuzfahrten, nicht die Reederei. Wie haltet ihr das?

Eure Meinung ….?!

• Vor 10 Stunden

Wir sind aus Aida „rausgewachsen“. Als die Kinder klein waren, war Aida passend. Das Konzept mit den Buffetrestaurants, die sehr legere Stimmung, die vielen Kinder an Bord. Inzwischen mögen wir alle nur noch die gediegenere Atmosphäre von Mein Schiff. Die Bedienrestaurants. Und halt nicht so viele Kinder wie auf den meisten AidaSchiffen. Keine Route bekommt uns so schnell wieder auf Aida. Obwohl wir tatsächlich für diesen Sommer überlegt hatten, weil die Rpute tatsächlich besser war. Aber keiner von uns hatte Spaß an dem Gedanken. Uns ist offensichtlich hauptsächlich auch das Ambiente auf dem Schiff wichtig.

ich war noch nicht auf vielen Kreuzfahrten. Trotzdem versuche auch ich bereits immer neue Routen zu fahren. Ich mache das nicht von der Reederei abhängig.

Bin bis jetzt Costa, Aida und Tui gefahren. Jede Reederei hat bei mir Plus, aber auch Minusseiten.

Route- Preis- Zeitpunkt- dann Reederei

Vg GrannySmith

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Philosophie gegen Philosophie...

Haben alle Routen von TC abgefahren. Afrika war vor 2 Jahren gebucht, wurde dann von TC abgesagt. Haben uns gestern für die neue Tour Kapstadt bis Singapur interessiert, gestern JS pro Person 5740 Euro, heute 6200 Euro ohne Flüge. BC Flüge nur für Hinflüge buchbar. Sind jetzt raus, haben uns jetzt wieder für eigen geplante Urlaube entschieden und für einige andere Reedereien die Newsletter abonniert.

• Vor 9 Stunden

Zitat von Zocas Die Routen bestimmen ab nun unsere Kreuzfahrten, nicht die Reederei

Also ich habe meine KFs immer ausschließlich NUR nach der Route (und ggf. den Einzelkabinenpreisen) ausgesucht und nicht nach einer bestimmten Reederei!!

Das Schiff ist mir letztlich egal!

Zitat von Zocas Wie seht ihr das? Wir sind eigentlich Mein Schiff Fahrer. Sind aber auch schon mehrmals mit AIDA gefahren. Nach zig Fahrten mit Mein Schiff sind wir nun da angelangt, um nur noch den Routen zu folgen… Wir fahren im November mit der AIDAstella in 24 Tagen von Kapstadt nach Dubai. 3 Städte in Südafrika, La Réunion, Mauritius, 3 Inseln auf den Seychellen, Oman nach Dubai. Bietet so Mein Schiff nicht an. Die Routen bestimmen ab nun unsere Kreuzfahrten, nicht die Reederei. Wie haltet ihr das? Eure Meinung ….?! Alles anzeigen

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Gold für AIDA Cruises für innovatives Lithium-Ionen-Batterie-Speichersystem auf AIDAprima

AIDA Cruises, das führende Unternehmen der deutschen Kreuzfahrtbranche, wurde am Montag, 20. Mai, in Athen (Griechenland) mit dem renommierten ESG Shipping Award International 2024 ausgezeichnet. In der Kategorie „Technology Leader“ erhielt das Unternehmen eine Anerkennung in Gold für die Installation des größten Batterie-Speichersystems in der Passagierschifffahrt mit einer Kapazität von 10 Megawattstunden an Bord von AIDAprima.

Die in zehn Kategorien verliehenen ESG Shipping Awards würdigen die Anstrengungen und Leistungen von Unternehmen der Schifffahrtsbranche weltweit, für ihr außergewöhnliches Engagement für Nachhaltigkeit und verantwortungsvolles unternehmerisches Handeln.

„Wir fühlen uns geehrt, diesen prestigeträchtigen ESG Shipping Award zu erhalten. Die Auszeichnung ist für uns nicht nur eine Bestätigung unseres Engagements, sondern zugleich auch Motivation, unsere Bemühungen fortzusetzen, aktiv zu einer nachhaltigeren maritimen Wirtschaft beizutragen. Wir bei AIDA Cruises sind überzeugt, dass technologische Innovationen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen spielen. Deshalb investieren wir in Leuchtturmprojekte wie die Nachrüstung der hochmodernen Batterietechnologie an Bord von AIDAprima. Unsere Ambition ist klar: Netto-Null-Emissionen aus unserem Schiffsbetrieb. Auf diesem Weg werden wir weiterhin unsere Kräfte mit allen bündeln, die unsere Ziele teilen und die Klimaziele der EU, der IMO und des Pariser Abkommens mit Investitionen und Innovationen aktiv unterstützen”, sagt Felix Eichhorn, Präsident von AIDA Cruises.

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Die Nutzung von Batterien wird Auswirkungen auf die Schifffahrtsindustrie haben und ist nur ein weiteres Beispiel für das Engagement von AIDA zur Reduzierung von Treibhausgasemissionen. Das 2022 installierte und 2023 ausgiebig getestete Lithium-Ionen-Batterie-Speichersystem auf AIDAprima hat eine Kapazität von 10 Megawattstunden und ist das größte seiner Art in der Passagierschifffahrt. Es kann zur Energieversorgung bei verschiedenen Schiffsmanövern auf See, beim An- und Ablegen oder während des Hafenaufenthalts des Schiffes eingesetzt werden. Außerdem ermöglicht diese innovative Technologie dem Schiff, für begrenzte Zeiträume im Null-Emissions-Modus zu fahren.

Die Batterien können während auf See aufgeladen werden, und die in den Batterien gespeicherte überschüssige Energie kann bei erhöhtem Bedarf („Peak-Shaving“) genutzt werden, um die Schiffsmotoren in einem konstant optimalen Leistungsbereich arbeiten zu lassen. Im Hafen kann das Batteriespeichersystem über die Landstrom wieder aufgeladen werden.

Das Projekt wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Corvus Energy realisiert und umfasste die Produktion von 1.760 einzelnen Batteriemodulen.

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In a single night, self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale. Here’s what really happened—and how GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet

Oct. 2 was a quiet night on the streets of San Francisco. It was moderately cloudy, and Fleet Week activities had just begun at Sunset Library. But in the Tenderloin neighborhood, at 9:29 p.m., a pedestrian stepped out into the street, crossing Fifth and Market, and was struck by a green Nissan Sentra sedan. What happened next would ripple all the way through one of the largest corporations on earth—GM.

Because after the woman was struck the first time, “Panini”—one of the self-driving robo-taxis in Cruise’s fleet that had been out on the streets for about a year and a half—ran over her, stopped, and then dragged the woman for 20 feet as it tried to pull over.

Within seconds of the initial impact, Cruise’s control room in Scottsdale, Ariz.—where hourly agents monitored Cruise’s fleet 24 hours a day in cubicles fitted with three computer screens—was looped in. By the time a live three-second video of the incident transmitted onto the computer screens in front of Cruise’s remote assistance agents, the car had already incorrectly labeled the incident as a side collision and begun to pull over, unaware it was dragging a person beneath its wheels. 

An exhaustive internal investigation reconstructed nearly every detail of the accident, but it couldn’t clear up exactly what Cruise’s remote assistance team saw that evening. One thing is certain: The incident, while not fatal, was the most serious in Cruise’s history, and it immediately thrust the robo-taxi company and its 80% owner, General Motors , into a spiral of federal scrutiny and investigations as well as public outrage and condemnation.

Before the end of October 2023, regulators were alleging that Cruise had withheld important details of the incident from them. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles had rescinded Cruise’s operational permit, leading Cruise to voluntarily pull its vehicles off the streets across the U.S. General Motors—which had largely let the company run independently, despite its close communication with senior leadership and operations—swept in to replace nearly all of Cruise’s management, shuffle up its board, and lay off nearly a quarter of its almost 4,000 employees in a bid to salvage Cruise’s reputation and preserve the more than $10 billion that GM has plowed into the company over the last eight years. 

Cruise—once a crown jewel of General Motors CEO and Cruise Chair Mary Barra’s broader strategy to rival electric competitor Tesla—suddenly had become an outsize liability, just as General Motors was simultaneously trying to manage the six-week union strike by workers of the Big Three U.S. automakers that was threatening its business. Those labor strikes were unprecedented, but the revelations around Cruise’s back-and-forth with regulators were also unnerving GM shareholders. As a financial analyst put it during GM’s first earnings call that mentioned Cruise’s permit being revoked, the company’s handling of the whole debacle was very “un-GM-like.” “I agree with you,” Barra responded. “It was uncharacteristic, and it definitely is something that we’re working to manage well.”

But unlike a startup that implodes and then closes its doors, GM is unfurling the full force of a Fortune 500 giant to resuscitate the project. Whereas GM had previously taken more of a back seat approach with Cruise, it is now intimately hands-on in its subsidiary’s day-to-day—and in the sensitive task of rolling Cruise robo-taxis back onto the streets. To report this story, Fortune spoke with 11 former Cruise employees or contract workers, in addition to Cruise investors, analysts, and San Francisco politicians. Fortune also interviewed Cruise’s newly appointed chief safety officer, Steve Kenner. What is clear? The moves GM and Cruise’s new leadership team make next will be a road map of how a giant corporation can rescue an innovative startup—or be driven off course trying to save it.

‘I can’t stop smiling’

Two years ago, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, sporting a black leather jacket, peered into the window of a white and orange Chevy Bolt that was pulling up to the curb to pick her up—no driver in sight.

“Oh, my gosh. This is incredible,” Barra said after sliding into the back seat of the Cruise robo-taxi, known by Cruise staffers as “Tostada.” Barra was sitting next to Kyle Vogt, cofounder of Cruise and its then-president and chief technology officer. “It’s too bad that we have to wear masks, though, because I can’t stop smiling,” Barra said.

The video, which Barra posted on her LinkedIn two years ago, showed her taking her first Cruise ride, though she had already been talking up its technology for years—ever since General Motors scooped up a majority of the startup’s shares in March 2016, and two years later when she became chair of its board. The acquisition, which was for a combination of cash and GM equity, put the fledgling company at $1 billion when it was still just three years old, cemented Vogt as a two-time billion-dollar exit founder, and made him and Cruise cofounder Dan Kan the youngest-ever senior directors at General Motors.

Vogt, who had built his first self-driving car prototype at the age of 13 , had a small team of just 40 engineers when GM pulled it into the fold, but it quickly became an outsize piece of GM’s strategy as it experimented with rideshare and autonomy. GM had already made a strategic investment in Lyft , and in early 2016 it had launched its own car-sharing program called Maven, though it would shut that down during the pandemic.

Importantly, Cruise would become an integral piece of GM’s broader big-vision strategy to go 100% electric by 2035. Elon Musk’s Tesla had left legacy carmakers like General Motors in the dust. While General Motors had been working on manufacturing EVs since the 1990s, GM had struggled to manufacture electric vehicles en masse, and in 2022 had to recall many of its Chevy Bolt EVs over fire risks. Even if President Biden was publicly trying to give General Motors most of the credit for the EV revolution, it was Tesla that was successfully putting millions of cars on the streets—and it was being rewarded by investors accordingly. 

Cruise’s promise of self-driving vehicles was the kind of shiny new technology that could give General Motors an edge and differentiate it in the market—and maybe even make the legacy automaker “cool.” GM plowed $592 million into the company in 2017, doubling its staff within the first year of GM’s acquisition. Within eight years, Cruise had scaled to nearly 4,000 employees (plus a host of contract workers) across San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Austin, Dubai, and in Japan. In 2022, Cruise beat Tesla and Alphabet's Waymo to commercial operation, becoming the first company to launch a fared robo-taxi service in San Francisco that February. Cruise welcomed strategic investors like Honda and Microsoft . It was building out a driverless last-mile delivery service with Walmart in Phoenix and had 70 of its robo-taxis on the road in San Francisco by the end of 2022.

“We are the first company that has actually deployed an autonomous rideshare company service in San Francisco,” Barra told Fortune of Cruise in an interview in August 2022. “We're actually charging for rides and there is no driver…So I'm very excited about where our technology is. So that's huge.” 

About a year before Barra took that first ride, there was an executive shuffle within Cruise. GM veteran Dan Ammann, who had once rivaled Barra for the top seat at GM and had been chief executive at Cruise since 2019, was replaced by Vogt, and he left the company at the end of 2021. Ammann and Barra had sparred over when Cruise should go public, which was first reported by Bloomberg and independently confirmed by Fortune . (Ammann didn't respond to Fortune 's request for comment.)

Within two months after Ammann left the company, Cruise was rolling its cars onto the road in San Francisco, leading to internal clashes among some of its own employees, who debated whether the technology was accurate enough to roll out en masse. These clashes would only heighten in 2023 when the company started scaling at a rapid clip.

“These vehicles were not ready. And we would say as much,” one of the former employees says, noting that they believed that the number of “unwanted public interactions”—or UPIs—on the company’s internal database, called RINO, were too high. The former employee described instances of vehicles freezing in the middle of a four-way stop or stopping when an emergency vehicle would go past, and said that the robo-taxis couldn’t see objects that were too close to the ground—recalling staffers joking about how a Cruise might run over Mayor London Breed’s cat, because the robo-taxi wouldn’t be able to detect it. “I believe that we were getting close. I just think that we tried it a little bit too early when there were things that were unsafe,” another former employee says, noting how isolated vehicle responses, such as a Cruise not stopping quickly enough at a stop sign, were akin to “if a computer had a learner's permit.”

There was a notable shift at Cruise particularly in 2023, when Vogt became laser-focused on scale, according to people who worked there at the time. One person says that the company set an internal goal to reach $150 million in annual revenue by the end of the year. “Deployment decisions were basically being made on the fly at night by [Kyle Vogt],” that person asserts. (Vogt declined to comment for this story.)

But the subject of readiness was contested internally—particularly when Cruise was first launching service and had only a few vehicles on the road. A former employee said the vehicles were “thoroughly tested” when they were first debuted for commercial service in 2022 in San Francisco. They described the lengthy process that led up to the rollout: running billions of miles of simulations in what was called “the matrix,” testing on private road systems, and tens of thousands of miles with human drivers—all of which preceded the rollout. After the cars were rolled out in 2022, small issues would lead to a reduction in fleet size or trigger a full fleet stoppage, they said.

But as more and more cars were introduced to the streets, Cruise was often at odds with the public in San Francisco, who didn’t seem quite ready for the new technology to be on the streets. People would mess with the cars—putting traffic cones on top of the vehicles so the robo-taxis would pull over, or throwing rocks at the windshields. One remote-assistance operator recalled a man pulling down his pants and sitting his naked bottom on the hood of the robo-taxi while she was trying to move the vehicle. “A lot of people didn't want Cruise to exist and would make a joke out of it,” a former employee says. Another former employee recalled people slashing Cruise tires and a man who repeatedly chased the cars with a hatchet, sometimes when passengers were inside. 

And Cruise’s relationship with regulators was at times contentious. The city and county of San Francisco were repeatedly laying out complaints about driverless Cruise cars sitting disabled and blocking traffic, signaling in one direction yet moving in another, or blocking transit vehicles . In summer 2023, head of the SFMTA Jeff Tumlin went on a podcast, berating companies like Cruise and Waymo and making statements about the data they shared with regulators that were inaccurate. (The podcast ultimately issued a factual correction regarding some of Tumlin’s statements about how AV companies were engaging with his agency.)

There was an “us versus them” mentality that ran through the fabric of the organization, according to the internal investigation after the October incident, which was made public earlier this year, and accounts from former employees. Two former employees said senior leadership was resistant to working with San Francisco law enforcement and regulators.

That attitude extended to the media. Employees expressed frustration at the frequent negative media coverage or political jabs lodged at Cruise, and said some staffers took it personally. 

“Kyle was very passionate about what we do here at Cruise,” one of the former employees says. “He would talk all the time, at length, of drunk-driving accidents and the amount of people who are killed every single year. He mentioned [that in] almost every single company stand-up meeting that we had—just to try and drive the point home that we can make a safer world by what we do here.” 

‘It was hard to watch’

For San Franciscans trying out the new Cruise robo-taxi service for the first time, the whole process could feel futuristic. A user pulls up the app, orders a Cruise car with a clever name—like “Poppy”—and it pulls up to the curb. After you get in, a tablet in the back instructs you to shut the doors; then Poppy takes you on your way. 

Powering all of it was a lot of hidden manpower to make sure the vehicles stayed out of trouble. That’s where the staff in Scottsdale came in. When the fleet was operational, that office housed Cruise’s operations center, with a customer service team, an incident and crisis management team, and roadside dispatch. 

One of the rooms is a 24/7 control room, where remote assistance workers worked 10 hours a day, four days a week, monitoring both the autonomous fleet—suggesting routes for the taxis when they got stuck or didn’t know how to proceed—and the vehicles that were being operated with drivers. If a driver took their hands off the steering wheel, or started blinking too slowly (indicating tiredness), the remote assistance workers would alert their supervisors. 

The mood in the control room was generally lighthearted, two former agents say. In true Silicon Valley startup fashion, Cruise’s office offered free meals to its employees—with chips, energy drinks, oatmeal, and candy for them to snack on from two kitchens during their shifts. Managers would crack jokes. “I thought it was fun,” one of them says. “Everybody was nice. Everyone was wanting to help you.”

But the evening of Oct. 2, after the pedestrian was struck by a Cruise vehicle, the aura in the control room shifted markedly. No formal announcement about the crash was made within the control room, according to the agent present, though a longer, 14-second video of the accident was shared with some of the people present via Slack, or shown directly—alerting others to what had taken place, they said. 

One of the agents working that evening, who spoke with Fortune on condition of anonymity, left the control room for a period after being shown the footage. “I just took a walk—just to get my mind off of it—because it was hard to watch,” they said. (Cruise says that all RA employees involved in the response “were given the opportunity to go home to cope with the experience.”)

That evening, Cruise team members jumped into crisis management mode, paging employees who needed to be looped in, and creating a virtual “war room” on Google Meet and a corresponding Slack channel to communicate about and deal with the incident. Meanwhile, employees went back and forth with the NHTSA, the San Francisco MTA, the San Francisco Police Department, and the San Francisco Fire Department about the incident and set up meetings for the following day. Cruise was fielding inquiries from the press and was solely focused on trying to correct the record to reflect that the pedestrian had initially been struck by a separate vehicle in a hit-and-run—not by Panini.

Employees didn’t know the extent of the robo-taxi’s responsibility in the accident—that the vehicle had subsequently dragged the pedestrian 20 feet after she was struck by the other vehicle—until the early morning of Oct. 3, when the complete footage from the car had been uploaded to Cruise servers and reviewed. At that point, employees realized the incident was much more serious than they had understood, and some 200 people at the company were pulled into the virtual war room.

But Vogt and Cruise’s vice president of communications, Aaron McLear, decided not to alter Cruise’s press statement to include that Panini had dragged the pedestrian, nor to share the full footage with reporters. “[W]e did share all the info with all of our regulators and the investigators. We have no obligation to share anything with the press,” McLear wrote in a Slack message, according to Cruise’s subsequent third-party investigation of the incident which GM made public earlier this year. (McLear declined to comment.)

In meetings with regulators on Oct. 3, Cruise employees didn’t proactively discuss how the robo-taxi had dragged the pedestrian—instead relying on playing a full video of the incident, which showed the dragging, to speak for itself. And there were internet issues in all but one of the meetings with regulators—limiting what exactly officials saw and creating a disconnect in what regulators took away from the meetings, the investigation showed.

Adding to what had already been such a difficult week for the company and many of its employees, one of Cruise’s incident analysts had suddenly passed away a few days before the pedestrian accident, leading Cruise to bring in counselors and offer time off to the employees who were close to him. Around that same time, one of Cruise’s contract drivers, who was manually driving a robo-taxi in one of the new cities, was T-boned by a speeding driver and hospitalized with significant injuries. “That was a crazy week at Cruise—I’m not going to lie,” says someone who worked in the Scottsdale operations center.

Meanwhile, Vogt was pressing for things to return to normal, according to the investigation that followed the incident. When members of the safety and engineering teams asked whether the fleet should be grounded, Vogt and Cruise COO Gil West said the data didn't justify a shutdown, the report says. And to the concern of several Cruise staffers, Vogt and West determined to close the “war room” by 6:05 p.m. the day after the incident. Employees "expressed concern that there were no further scheduled [crisis management team] meetings for the biggest accident Cruise had faced in its history," the report says. People were “livid,” an employee says.

“It was uncharacteristic, and it definitely is something that we’re working to manage well.” Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors and chair of Cruise's board of directors

On Oct. 6, an article ran in Forbes in which San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin accused Cruise of “telling a half truth,” and not disclosing that the robo-taxi had dragged the pedestrian 20 feet. Four days later, the DMV asked for a complete video of the accident, and a couple of days after, the NHTSA told Cruise it intended to open a “preliminary evaluation” into the accident as well as three other incidents involving pedestrians in San Francisco.

On Oct. 24, the DMV suspended Cruise’s driverless permit, noting in a release that the department believed Cruise vehicles were “not safe for the public’s operation” and that the company had “misrepresented any information related to safety of the autonomous technology of its vehicles.” The DMV rescinded Cruise’s permit the very same day that Barra had earlier underscored Cruise’s expansion plans on an earnings call with analysts. Shortly after, Cruise voluntarily pulled its entire fleet off the streets across the U.S., including its human-driven cars. Vogt resigned, and cofounder Dan Kan, the chief product officer, resigned a day later. 

The company brought in Quinn Emanuel to investigate the incident; the legal firm determined that Cruise had suffered from “poor leadership, mistakes in judgment, lack of coordination, an ‘us versus them’ mentality with regulators, and a fundamental misapprehension of Cruise’s obligations of accountability and transparency to the government and the public.” After the findings, Cruise parted ways with nine employees and senior leaders, and completely cleaned house, bringing on a slew of new executives. 

But even after Quinn Emanuel’s 105-page report, questions remain about what exactly happened that night. Two operators were interviewed about a week after the incident and asked to share their recollection of events, according to Cruise’s subsequent investigation. But they had been laid off by the time Quinn Emanuel sought to interview them, and the investigators had to rely on a Cruise staffer’s “contemporaneous notes.” Another two interviewees provided information the law firm couldn’t verify that “appears contrary to the weight of the evidence,” the report said. The agent working that evening who spoke to Fortune , who was laid off in November, said no one at Cruise had ever reached out to them about the incident. "There's a lot of stuff lost now that people will never know," another former employee says.

A representative from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where the pedestrian was taken in critical condition, said that the pedestrian had been discharged, but declined to share any further information. The San Francisco Police Department said its investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

Cruise settled with the woman who was dragged at a figure between $8 million to $12 million, Fortune reported earlier this week. The company has also proposed a fine of $112,500 as part of a settlement with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which had accused the company of omitting material facts to the regulator.

After Oct. 2

GM has always been close to Cruise’s operations. GM controls the Cruise board: Of its seven seats, four are GM executives and three also sit on GM’s board. And particularly after Ammann’s departure, GM’s relationship with Cruise’s senior leadership became more closely intertwined, according to two people familiar with the matter. GM executives Regina Carto, who leads global product safety, and Frank Gorman, GM’s assistant general counsel, had regularly scheduled meetings with several of Cruise’s senior leaders, one person with knowledge of the matters says. Meanwhile, Cruise’s AV technicians were regularly in touch with GM engineers to handle issues or updates with the Chevy Bolt. Cruise Origins, the spacious, vanlike vehicles without driver’s seats, steering wheels, or pedals, would be tested at GM’s headquarters in Detroit, as well as one of its test tracks outside San Francisco. Cruise frequently provided mileage reports to the board and other senior managers within GM, and it would report all major incidents, including how they were handled and how Cruise planned to improve its response moving forward. “Someone had some form of daily contact [with GM] on some level,” one former employee says. 

Two people specifically describe sensing an "undertone" within the company that GM was monitoring them. "There was a constant undertone that GM was watching. GM expects us to produce. We have to get on the road. Waymo is better than us,” one of them says, referring to Alphabet's rival self-driving cars.

Still, Cruise had other investors, and GM had left it to operate independently, trusting its senior executive team to handle day-to-day operations, including its interactions with regulatory agencies, legal affairs, and communications.

After the incident, when GM shares dipped below $30 per share for the first time in three years, all of that would change. While Cruise EVP Mo Elshenawy was promoted to be the company’s copresident and CTO, board member Craig Glidden stepped in as copresident and chief administrative officer, and GM became acutely involved in investigating the October incident, restructuring the company and who was running it, and overseeing its interactions with the media. For example, GM’s chief communication officer and other senior GM leaders started to sometimes sit in on Cruise board meetings, according to someone familiar with the matter. GM board member Jon McNeill, who was Lyft’s former COO, stepped onto Cruise's board, and Mike Abbott, GM’s executive vice president of software and services, took an observer seat. GM’s president, Mark Reuss, personally interviewed Steve Kenner, previously the global director of automotive safety at Ford who was hired as Cruise’s chief safety officer earlier this year. Glidden, who is GM's executive vice president of legal, has been representing the company in its ongoing regulatory inquiries (his base salary rose to $1.1 million, up from $850,000, as a result, SEC filings show). 

In the weeks after the DMV’s suspension, Cruise employees were anxious—particularly after Vogt resigned. “[We] started to see the writing on the wall,” one of the employees says, referring to discussions of potential layoffs. “A lot of people just were really nervous.” 

With cars pulled from the roads in all markets, some staffers who worked directly with the fleet had little to do. Testing was moved into garages and onto test tracks. In the control room, remote assistance workers didn’t have cars to monitor, so they were asked to review and label thousands of video clips during their shifts. 

Right up to the DMV’s suspension of Cruise’s permit, Cruise had been on a fast track to scale. The robo-taxi company had publicly announced plans to get to $1 billion in revenue by 2025. It was already providing limited service in Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Miami—and it was working on building out operations in Nashville, as well as overseas in Japan and in Dubai. Out in Phoenix, Cruise had been expanding the range of self-driving shopping delivery that it was doing with Walmart. 

A handful of Cruise Origins had been transported to Cruise’s R&D facility and track in Phoenix, where employees had been training with them. “We were just starting to get acquainted and integrated with the Origins,” says a former Cruise employee who was working with the vehicles.

Immediately, all of those plans were put on hold. With autonomous vehicles off the roads, Walmart deliveries in Phoenix reverted to human drivers, then eventually stopped altogether. During a layoff in 2023, General Motors ultimately let go of 24% of Cruise’s employees—or around 900 people—and later parted ways with many of its contractors.

"The leaders involved exercised very poor judgment in how they conducted themselves and interacted with the regulators." Steve Kenner, chief safety officer of Cruise

Approximately seven months since the incident, General Motors is just starting to lay the groundwork to relaunch. Cruise said earlier this week that it will start testing its self-driving vehicles in Phoenix—operating autonomously, but with human drivers inside the vehicles to take over if needed. At the beginning of last month, Cruise submitted responses to the California DMV to reinstate its permit, though the DMV told Fortune those are still under review. As it relaunches service, Cruise plans to re-map each city where it will operate, slowly release commercial rides with human supervision, and then eventually move to autonomous rides, according to chief safety officer Kenner.

Kenner is unsparing about Cruise’s previous management. “The leaders involved exercised very poor judgment in how they conducted themselves and interacted with the regulators,” he tells Fortune . Since Kenner’s arrival, Cruise has restructured its operations around its safety team, so that Kenner has veto power before Cruise makes any kind of incremental rollout—even if it’s putting manually driven cars on the street. He has also told regulators that GM and Cruise will work together with them on safety issues. That’s already playing out in many of the meetings: All of Kenner’s meetings thus far with the NHTSA, which still has two investigations open into Cruise, have included GM’s head of product safety, Regina Carto, too. “She and I have been talking a lot—almost on a daily basis, including just finishing up [a call] about a half-hour ago,” Kenner said in the interview.

Kenner has been traveling between Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., meeting with regulators and transportation officials and trying to rebuild the company’s relationships. “I know trust is earned, and we're going to be judged by our actions going forward,” Kenner said. “It's going to take some time."

But even as Cruise robo-taxis start driving the roads again, it will be a different company than before. For one, employees are no longer awarded restricted stock units, just cash—making Cruise’s compensation plan more akin to that of a corporation than a Silicon Valley startup. (GM offered to buy shares at around $11–$12 per share earlier this year, according to a former employee, down from around $25 per share at the end of last year. Reuters reported similar details in February.) 

GM has also slashed Cruise’s annual budget by $1 billion and has made it clear that it will pull back the pace. As of now, Cruise is keeping its Origin vehicles off the streets.

Cruise’s new, slower pace will make it more akin to Waymo, which had driven its vehicles 20 million miles with drivers before it started putting its cars onto the roads fully autonomously. That’s something former Cruise employees who were concerned the company was moving too fast think is a good thing. “They're trying to implement some new safety initiatives, which is great. It’s very good to see,” one of them says.

Cruise employees are quick to point to the data we have so far on self-driving vehicles, which both Waymo and Cruise have published, and which has been closely analyzed . The initial figures suggest that self-driving cars are much safer than their human counterparts. But new technology, it seems, is always going to be held to a much higher standard when it comes to safety.

“We all see the potential benefits and value of autonomous vehicles, including safety, but we need to make sure these powerful new technologies are ready for prime time,” says San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who through a lawsuit in December has sought to restrict the number of robo-taxis operating in San Francisco. Chiu describes himself as a supporter of self-driving cars—so long as they are safe: “Unfortunately the many events over the past year have suggested otherwise, so this is why we have been pushing for accountability, transparency, and guardrails.”

‘In the wilds of San Francisco’

Part of Cruise’s original allure, executives repeatedly told shareholders, was that Cruise could recruit different talent than GM, and had an ideal lab on the streets of San Francisco. “What really attracted us to Cruise was not only the capability that they had already developed, but the fact they were doing it, I call it, in the wilds of San Francisco, right? Literally on the downtown streets of San Francisco, the most—or one of the most—complex environments to try to build and deploy new technology,” Pamela Fletcher, GM’s former vice president of electric vehicles, said at the Citigroup Global Technology Conference in late 2016.

Billions of dollars later, Cruise has lost much of what gave it that edge. It can no longer operate in the “wilds of San Francisco”—at least for now. And it’s no longer very independent from GM. Moreover, Cruise’s first-mover advantage has been erased. “When you're standing still, and Waymo’s moving forward—it's a big difference,” says David Whiston, an automotive analyst at Morningstar.

When GM placed its bet on Cruise, it was hoping for all the glory that comes with getting in early on a lightning-hot startup unconstrained by bureaucracy and tradition. But it’s easy to forget the second part of the old startup mantra: “Move fast and break things.” And in this case, a single misstep on a dark San Francisco street didn’t just put Cruise’s reputation on the line—it imperiled GM’s too. Now the 100-year-old company is in a position it never wanted to be in: It has to move fast—and fix things. 

—With additional reporting from Christiaan Hetzner 

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Stap aan boord van de AIDAprima voor een 8-daagse cruise over de Perzische Golf. Na een hotelovernachting in Dubai stap je aan boord van de AIDAprima. De eerste stop is Abu Dhabi. Breng hier zeker een bezoek aan de indrukwekkende Sjeik Zayed-moskee. Het is namelijk één van de grootste moskeeën ter wereld. In Manama ontdek je de eeuwenoude cultuur van Bahrein; een land met een fascinerend contrast tussen traditioneel en modern. Ook in Dubai kijk je je ogen uit. Deze stad van glitter & glamour is één van de rijkste zeven emiraten. Bijkomen van alle indrukken? Op het eiland Sir Bani Yas kom je helemaal tot rust en geniet je van de natuur dat het eiland te bieden heeft. Uitrusten kan ook zeker aan boord van de AIDAprima. Je kunt hier heerlijk dineren in één van de vele restaurants en ontspannen in de Body & Soul Organic Spa. Ga je ook mee met deze betoverende cruise door het Midden-Oosten?

• Reisduur is 9 dagen (8 nachten)
• Je dient te beschikken over een geldig paspoort dat na thuiskomst nog minimaal 6 maanden geldig moet zijn
• Om Dubai in te komen heb je een visum nodig. Dit visum zit niet inbegrepen in deze cruise. Het visum wordt niet door TUI geregeld
• AIDA hanteert een semi All Inclusive concept. Tafelwijnen, bier en frisdrank tijdens de maaltijden in de buffetrestaurants zijn inbegrepen.
• De voertaal aan boord is Duits, maar de meeste medewerkers spreken ook Engels
• Eventuele uitgaven aan boord betaal je met je boordpas. Deze boordpas is tevens de sleutel van je hut en vormt je toegangsbewijs tot het schip
• De valuta aan boord is Euro
• Rederijen bieden diverse mogelijkheden voor mindervalide gasten. Neem hiervoor contact op met één van onze reisadviseurs
• De dresscode is smart casual. Er zijn geen formele avonden
• Aan boord gelden er geen vaste dinerzittingen
• Wil je één hut boeken voor het hele gezin (incl. kinderen onder de 15 jaar)? Dat boek je eenvoudig online. Wil je met 3 of 4 personen van 15 jaar of ouder in één hut verblijven? Neem dan telefonisch contact op met ons Customer Service Center
• Het wordt zwangere vrouwen aangeraden een arts te raadplegen voor zij een reis ondernemen, ongeacht het stadium waarin de zwangerschap zich bevindt. Vrouwen die op de einddatum van de cruise 24 weken of langer zwanger zijn, worden niet geaccepteerd door de rederij. Vrouwen die tot 23 weken zwanger zijn op het moment van inscheping moeten een medische verklaring overhandigen waaruit blijkt dat zij in staat zijn om te reizen
• Boek je deze cruise met vluchten van Transavia dan is er geen ruimbagage inbegrepen, deze kan je direct of later nog bij boeken bij de luchtvaartmaatschappij.
• Vertrek vanuit Dubai
• Inclusfief 1 hotelovernachting
• Meerdere dagen in Dubai
• Semi All Inclusive genieten
• Ontspannen op Sir Bani Yas
• Bezoek de Sjeik Zayed-moskee

• Sir Bani Yas

De beschikbaarheid van de getoonde hutten is afhankelijk van je reisgezelschap en de gewenste vertrekdatum. De afbeeldingen geven een indicatie van het huttype, naast de inrichting kan ook het uitzicht afwijken.

• Airconditioning, douche, Zitje, Föhn, Geen Raam, Roomservice, Kluisje, Telefoon, Televisie, Toilet
• Geen Balkon
• Aantal personen max. 4
• Grootte hut 16 m2
• Bereikbaar met lift ja
• Ligging hut op indeling door de rederij
• Mindervalide hut op aanvraag
• Airconditioning, douche, Zitje, Föhn, Raam, mogelijk met beperkt zicht, Roomservice, Kluisje, Telefoon, Televisie, Toilet
• Grootte hut 22-23 m2
• Balkon ja, 4-13 m2
• Grootte hut 21-27 m2 (incl. balkon)
• Balkon ja, 4-16 m2
• Grootte hut 24-37 m2 (incl. balkon)
• Ligging hut ligging bepaald door rederij (Het is niet mogelijk om een voorkeur voor de ligging van de hut door te geven.)
• Extra services Extra Comfort! Zoals een walk-in closet of een aparte douche

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Silver Ray At Meyer Werft Shipyard – Photo: Courtesy Silversea

Silversea Cruises has proudly welcomed the Silver Ray, the latest addition to its Nova Class fleet, setting a new standard in ultra-luxury and expedition cruising. The ceremonial handover took place in Eemshaven on May 14, graced by the presence of Jason Liberty, President and CEO of Royal Caribbean Group, and other distinguished guests from Silversea and the Meyer Werft shipyard. The event was marked by traditional maritime festivities, including flag-changing and signing ceremonies, speeches, and a toast to Silver Ray’s future voyages.

The Silver Ray, alongside its sister ship Silver Nova, represents a revolutionary approach to cruise ship design, featuring an asymmetrical structure and over 4,000 square meters of exterior glass, offering guests an immersive experience with the sea. These ships are among the most energy-efficient in the world, highlighting Royal Caribbean Group’s commitment to sustainability and reduced carbon emissions.

Silver Ray is set to embark on her maiden voyage from Lisbon on June 15, cruising the Mediterranean before heading to the Americas in December 2024. The ship’s innovative features include expansive pool decks with ocean views, the Dusk Bar, the Marquee, and a remarkable space-to-guest ratio of 75 GRT per guest, ensuring a luxurious and intimate atmosphere.

The ship’s delivery, achieved two days ahead of schedule, is a testament to the collaborative efforts of the Meyer Werft shipyard and its partners. The Nova Class ships boast the largest selection of bars, restaurants, and lounges in the ultra-luxury cruise segment, along with the Otium wellness program and the S.A.L.T. culinary experience.

With the addition of Silver Ray, Silversea continues to redefine the boundaries of luxury cruising, offering guests not just unparalleled service and comfort, but also a unique connection to the world’s most breathtaking destinations.

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• Model Year 2023
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• Make Toyota
• Model Land Cruiser
• Color Black
• Vehicle type SUV/Crossover
• Export status Can be exported
• Cylinders 8
• Interior Other color
• Adaptive lighting
• Airbags (front and side)
• Front wheel drive
• LED headlights
• Performance kit (tuned)
• Xenon headlights
• All wheel drive
• Adaptive cruise control
• Differential lock
• Driver Seat Belt Warning
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• Immobilizer
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• ISOFIX Child Seat Anchors
• High Mount Stop Lamp
• Electronic Brake-Force Distribution (EBD)
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• Speed Sensing Auto Door Lock
• Anti-Theft Alarm System
• Hill Start Assist Control
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• Rear Fog Lamp
• Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB)
• Speed Alert
• Auto High Beam Control
• Off-road kit
• Side Mirrors with Indicators
• Dual Exhaust
• Auto Adjustable Headlights
• Rear Spoiler
• Panoramic Roof
• AUX audio in
• Air conditioning
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• Rear Headrest
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• Rear TV screens
• USB & Auxillary Cable
• Touch Screen
• Android Auto
• Apple Car Play
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• Front Speakers
• Rear Speakers

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• Rear AC Vents
• 3rd Row AC Vents
• Rear Defogger
• Rear Camera
• Auto-Dimming Rear View Mirror
• Driver Seat Electric Adjustment
• Driver Seat Lumbar Support
• Front Passenger Seat Electric Adjustment
• Ventilated Seats
• Power Windows
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• Steering Switches
• Headlight On Reminder
• Automatic Head Lamps
• Rain Sensing Wipers
• Drive Modes
• Central Locking
• Power Steering
• Power Mirrors
• Auto Retractable Side Mirrors
• Heated Side Mirrors
• Power Trunk
• Auto Sensor Trunk Opener
• Cargo Light
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• Rear Power Outlet
• Wireless Charger
• Height Control
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