May is the month with the highest number of cruise ship calls this year at the Port of Bilbao 's terminal in Getxo. Tomorrow, Saturday the 31st, the last cruise ship will arrive, bringing the total to 18 cruise ships this month with over 18,000 tourists on board. Since the start of the season in March, 25 cruise ships and 32,643 passengers have been received, in a season expected to conclude in December with more than 90 calls.
In these first five months, five have stayed overnight: Balmoral from the Fred Olsen company; Seadream II, from the Seadream company; Star Pride from Windstar Cruises; Le Lapérouse from Ponant; and Europa, from Hapag Lloyd.
On April 23, the MSC Poesia arrived , the first of three cruise ships to embark passengers in Getxo. The next two are the Hapag-Lloyd Europa 2 , arriving in July with a twelve-day itinerary: Bilbao, Gijón, A Coruña, Porto, Lisbon, Cádiz, Marbella, Ibiza, and Barcelona; and in September, the Oceania MS Vista with an eleven-day itinerary: Bilbao, Gijón, A Coruña, Porto, Lisbon, Tangier, Almería, Cartagena, Palma de Mallorca, and Barcelona.
During this period, three ships have been received in Port for the first time: Le Lyrial from the Ponant company; the Seadream II from the Seadream company; and Carnival Miracle from the Carnival Cruise Line company.
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