Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 09:45 by ce-press
Columbus Cruise Center Bremerhaven (CCCB) is looking forward to welcoming a number of familiar faces as well as a few new friends this year. Faithful customers of many years such as Phoenix Reisen will be making a total of 37 calls at the terminal, including visits by all four of its ocean-going vessels, followed by TUI Cruises and Costa Cruises with 11 stops each.
Other highlights will include seven double arrivals, three days with three vessels leaving and one with four. Mein Schiff 3 and Mein Schiff 4 of TUI Cruises will both be calling at CCCB for the first time. On May 30, Costa Cruises will make its first visit bringing Costa Magica on a call. To mark this special occasion, the cruise terminal and the town of Bremerhaven will be working together to put on a special welcome which will include some colourful entertainment as well as snacks and a large information stand in the public visitors' gallery in Steubenstrasse 7b.
Another first-time visitor was Hurtigruten’s Midnatsol on May 5 as well as the Thomson Celebration on May 19 and Seven Seas Navigator on September 23. The season will close with the Christmas visits of Saga Sapphire on December 5 and Saga Pearl 2 on December 15.
This year visitors and shipping lines can expect to find new parking arrangements. The existing capacity for 350 cars adjacent to the terminal has been complemented by the creation of a new area comprising 8,000m² with room for a further 450 vehicles. This facility, which is intended for long-stay parking, is only 500m from the main entrance of the cruise terminal.
This will mean that CCCB now has a total of three parking areas which will be served by a new dedicated parking guidance system informing motorists arriving at Steubenstrasse about the three parking zones - P1 (short-stay), P2 (valet parking) and P3 (long-stay).
A baggage-carrying service directly from the vehicle will continue to be offered at P1 adjacent to the terminal as well as at P3 500m away. A further innovation at CCCB will be the introduction of payment by EC debit card.
