The five TUI ship cruises will be based in Palma in 2016

The five TUI ship cruises will be based in Palma in 2016

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, EE.UU.

15/03/2016

Palma will be the only port where the five TUI Cruises company ships’ (Mein Schiff 1,2,3,4 and 5) will call in 2016. Mein Schiff 5 is still being built at Turku shipyard (Finland) and will make its maiden voyage next July. 

The interest of the company in Balearic Islands’ ports has been growing over the years. Last Juny 2014, the brand new Mein Schiff 3 chose Palma’s port, arriving directly from Hamburg during its maiden voyage. During 2016, the five ship cruises of Tui Cruises company will be based in Palma.  

Next season, these five ship cruises will call up to 53 times in Balearic Islands’ ports altogether. 31 port calls will be in Palma, 20 in Ibiza and 2 in Mahon. 

Five ship cruises will arrive in Palma. The first one arriving at Palma’s port will be Mein Schiff 1, calling next April 30th from Civitavechia (Italy). The newly launched Mein Schiff 5, with a width of 295 metres, will call five times; first stop-over will be next September 23th, coming from Valencia. 

Mein Schiff 3 will reach Ibiza port in its fiftheen forecasted port calls. With a 293 metres width, it will be one of the biggest cruise ships stopping in the island. First one will be next May 2nd coming from Barcelona and Palma as final destination. Mahon will be the port of the two stop overs of the 264 metres width cruise ship, Mein Schiff 1. 

There are between 1.900 and 2.600 passengers on board TUI Cruises (depending on the capacity of each ship cruise), German citizens with a big majority.