The AIDAmar
Friday, 22 February 2013 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa Category/Kategorie: General , Cruise Ships
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AIDAmar in Geirangerfjord, Norway © Drdoht/cc-by-sa-3.0
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AIDAmar is a Sphinx class cruise ship, built at
Meyer Werft in
Papenburg for
AIDA Cruises . She is the sixth Sphinx series ship, preceded by sisters
AIDAdiva ,
AIDAbella ,
AIDAluna ,
AIDAblu and
AIDAsol .
AIDAmar was delivered on 12, May 2012 during the
823rd Harbour Birthday Hamburg . Her home port is
Genova .
The ship measuring 252 meters long and 32.2 meters wide. Displaying a gauge 71,300 tons, it has 1,096 cabins. Facilities included are an additional deck, an onboard brewery and a 2,300-m spa facility. The AIDAmar is a sistership of AIDAblu and AIDAsol , delivered in 2010 and 2011 respectively. These ships are slightly larger than the first three series units, the AIDAdiva , AIDAbella and AIDAluna (68,500 tons, 1,025 cabins), completed in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by Meyer Werft.
AIDAmar at Meyer-Werft Papenburg © Thiedbolt/cc-by-sa-3.0
The maiden voyage began on schedule on 12 May 2012 just after the launching ceremony. It took her to Belgium, France, England, Scotland, Norway and Sweden. Since the maiden voyage the
AIDAmar cruises to
Norway ,
North Cape ,
Iceland and
Scotland during the summer months, in the autumns she cruises in the
Mediterranean Sea , in the winter months is in the
Red Sea . In 2013
AIDAmar will sail similar routes, only in the summer months she is on
Baltic Sea cruise.
Read more on
AIDAmar (German only) and
Wikipedia AIDAmar . Learn more about the
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