Costa Cruises has canceled sailings for Costa Fortuna from April 2023 to April 2024, and is within the means of notifying booked visitors of the cancelations and alternate options for his or her deliberate sailings. No plans have but been introduced for the ship throughout that point interval.
Costa Fortuna Sailings Canceled
In a letter despatched to booked visitors, Costa Cruises has introduced the cancelation of a yr’s price of sailings for Costa Fortuna, when the ship was slated to be homeported from Istanbul, Turkey. Now, sailings from April 2023 to April 2024 have been canceled.
The canceled sailings had initially been deliberate for Costa Venezia, earlier than that ship was designated as a part of the “Costa by Carnival” program with plans to transfer below the operation of Carnival Cruise Line.
The impacted sailings had been Mediterranean itineraries, all roundtrip from Istanbul, Turkey. The cruises ranged from 7-14 days, with varied ports of name in Turkey and Greece, giving visitors the chance to extra totally discover the japanese Mediterranean and Aegean Sea, a area wealthy in historical past, artwork, and tradition.
When it was introduced in June 2022 that Costa Venezia could be transferring to the Carnival Cruise Line fleet, that ship’s Mediterranean itineraries had been quietly shifted to Costa Fortuna.
Costa Fortuna is without doubt one of the smallest ships within the Costa Cruises fleet, weighing 102,700 gross tons and in a position to welcome 2,702 visitors at double occupancy, and as much as 3,470 passengers when totally booked. The Fortuna/Triumph-class ship can also be the oldest Costa Cruises ship, having entered service with the road in 2003.
Why So Many Cancelations?
Few particulars have but been made clear about why such numerous sailings have been summarily canceled six months earlier than their crusing dates start, however there might be a number of causes.
It could be that there was not sufficient curiosity in crusing within the japanese Mediterranean on these itineraries or for Istanbul as a departure port, and due to this fact low reserving numbers prompted a change with the ship more likely to be repositioned to a extra widespread, and due to this fact extra worthwhile, area.
It’s also potential that native laws and potential restrictions on marine site visitors, cruise operators, or vacationer visits might be making coordinating the cruises too difficult and due to this fact much less fascinating. Port taxes and costs might also play a job in this kind of determination.
Costa Cruises continues to be providing japanese Mediterranean sailings throughout the summer season and early fall of 2023 aboard Costa Deliziosa from Venice and Costa Pacifica from Bari however fewer sailings can be found within the area later within the yr, and none in any respect now deliberate in early 2024.
Future Deployment Plans
No formal determination has but been made about future plans or itineraries for Costa Fortuna, however the cruise line is more likely to make an announcement quickly.
It’s potential the ship will merely be repositioned to a unique area, or could proceed homeporting from within the central and western Mediterranean, the place the ship is at present providing shorter 3-4 night time sailings from Seville, Barcelona, and Marseilles.
One other chance is the ship could also be transferred to the Costa by Carnival program in 2023 or 2024, if that program proves profitable with the transfers of Costa Venezia and Costa Firenze respectively in these years.
Costa Fortuna may also be transferred fully to Carnival Cruise Line as has been achieved with the former Costa Luminosa – now Carnival Luminosa – or the older ship might be scrapped fully.
For now, Costa Fortuna continues to be deliberate to spend the winter season crusing in South America, providing 8-night itineraries from Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, Brazil in addition to a number of sailings from Montevideo, Uruguay by means of March 2023.
