The Braemar will open the cruise season in Avilés on June 6th. The schedule through December includes three other calls: two from the Norwegian cruise line Fred Olsen, and one from the Chilean-German Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, which is including the city in its itineraries for the first time. The season will begin in September with a grand luxury vessel, the MS Europa, a five-star ship of the sea.
The 'Braemar' With a length of 196 meters, a beam of 22.5 meters and a gross tonnage of 24,344, has 485 rooms of different categories with capacity for 929 passengers.
The third cruise scheduled for this year is the 'MS Europa' on September 5th. It has been awarded the title of World's Best Cruise Ship by the 'Berlitz' guide for twelve consecutive years.
The second visit is scheduled for October 6, 2017 with the 'MS Bremen' with a capacity for 164 passengers.
The fourth and final cruise of 2016 is the 'Black Watch', a Royal Viking Line ship built in 1972 and acquired and refurbished by Fred Olsen in 1996. With a length of 205 meters, a beam of 25 meters and a gross tonnage of 28,613, its maximum capacity is 804 passengers.
The 2017 cruise schedule will be completed with two new visits from the 'Braemar', on May 4 and June 20, and with one from the 'Boudicca', on September 25.
In its first three years as a cruise port of call, Avilés has received 6,106 cruise passengers, 2,454 of them in 2015.
