AIDAnova resumes sailing from Hamburg

AIDAnova has operated her first voyage out of Hamburg on December 14 when she becomes the 10th AIDA cruise ship to resume commercial sailing this year.

According to a release, AIDAnova is offering two short voyages from Hamburg on December 14 and December 19, sailing to Norway’s Kristiansand and Oslo and on December. 22, 2021, she will set sail on a Christmas and New Year’s Eve voyage from Hamburg to Gran Canaria, where her Canary Islands program will commence.
AIDAnova is the first cruise ship in the world operating as a 100-percent LNG vessel, with according to AIDA Cruises, the ship was turned into a winter wonderland for the holiday season, with installed light decorations and Christmas trees. Confectioner Andrea Schirmaier-Huber will be onboard the first two sailings where guests will have the opportunity to make cookies and Christmas chocolates with the popular TV chef.
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” is returning on stage on the AIDAnova, as well as the AIDA Show Ensemble and the singers and dancers of the latter will perform festive shows in the ship’s theater.
A new event presented onboard will be the “Upgrade Show,” where guests from two interior cabins will be given a chance to win an upgrade to balcony cabins.
The holiday sailing is operating between December 22, 2021, until January 8, 2022, from Hamburg to Gran Canaria, with the New Year’s Eve spent in Funchal, Madeira, where guests will be able to enjoy a firework display and a shorter version can be booked from or to Lisbon.
From January to April 2022, AIDA says that AIDAnova will head to the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. There are seventeen restaurants and 23 bars onboard AIDAnova and she also features a double waterslide and a climbing gym, a beach club, a theater with a 360-degree stage, a TV studio and a Body & Soul Organic Spa, among other things.
Edited by: John Alwyn-Jones, Cruise Editor