The Port of Las Palmas will debut as a home port for cruise ships with the start of operations planned by the AIDAcara tourist cruise ship of the Aida Cruises shipping company.
This will be the first time that during the summer season, traditionally the low season for cruises in the Canary Islands, a shipping company will place a tourist cruise ship in the archipelago and in the Port of Las Palmas in particular, and for the entire summer season.
The ship will carry out its home port operations, embarking and disembarking passengers (mostly from Germany) every week, arriving in Las Palmas at dawn on Saturdays and departing on Sunday mornings. A total of 21 home port operations are scheduled between June 11 and October 29 by the AIDAcara, and 42,000 cruise passengers will pass through the island's capital.
This schedule will continue until the end of October, when the other two ships that the shipping company has based in the Canary Islands will join the fleet to operate the Canary Islands-Madeira route. At that point, the AIDAcara will return to its usual winter schedule, based in Las Palmas and departing every ten days to complete its assigned routes: Canary Islands-Cape Verde and Canary Islands-Azores.
