Anex Tour’s Selectum Blu Cruises is planning to renew its cruise providers in Turkey forward of the upcoming summer season season.
After cancelling most of its 2023 sailings and primarily ceasing its cruise operations, the corporate is predicted to supply a season within the Japanese Mediterranean onboard the Blue Sapphire beginning in late Could.
The Blue Sapphire was acquired from Saga Cruises in 2019 and is at the moment being ready for the service resumption at a shipyard in Turkey.
Following the work, the 1981-built vessel is about to supply a sequence of brief cruises to the Greek Isles and the Aegean Sea.
Departing from the Turkish Port of Cesme, the three- and four-night itineraries function visits to completely different ports of name, reminiscent of Rhodes, Kos, Leros and Samos.
A 3-night crusing, the primary cruise of the season is scheduled for Could 30, 2024. The complete summer season program is already out there for bookings on Selectum Blu’s web site and extends via late October 2024.
The schedule additionally contains a number of themed sailings, that includes cruises with music concert events by native singers.
One of many oldest cruise ships at the moment in service, the Blue Sapphire was initially inbuilt Germany for Hapag-Lloyd Cruises.
After crusing for different manufacturers, together with Star Cruises, Pullmantur, and Croisières de France, the 750-guest vessel debuted for Selectum Blu Cruises in 2021.
Based on the corporate, the Blue Sapphire underwent a full refurbishment in 2022 and presents an array of options that features two eating places, a swimming pool, a present lounge, and an entire spa.
A part of Anex Tour, one of many largest tour operators in Turkey, the corporate sources friends from international locations of Japanese Europe and Central Asia, together with Turkey, Kazakhstan and Russia.
The corporate supplied two seasons within the Japanese Mediterranean earlier than scrapping its total upcoming schedule in June 2023.
