Malmo attracts more brands

Friday, August 1, 2014 - 09:31 by ce-press

This year Malmo is hosting 12 calls generating about 34,000 passengers compared with about 31,000 passengers last year. Ten calls are from Pullmantur’s Empress, one from Horizon and one from Passat Kreuzfahrten’s Delphin.

Next year 15 calls are scheduled with the three ships calling but also Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Europa 2 on one call and AIDAcara on five.

This year’s first call was on May 10 marking the beginning of Malmo’s second home-porting cruise season. Next year the first call is on May 13 and the season is extended by almost a month from the final call this year being September 13 to next year being October 2.

A survey conducted among passengers and crew members of Pullmantur reveals that cruise passengers spent about SEK 7m (E0.76m) in Malmo in 2013. The visitors were very satisfied with eight out of 10 saying that their visit met or exceeded their expectations.

The highest ratings were awarded to the service and treatment received in shops and restaurants.

Empress on turnaround in Malmo (c) CMP

Related cruise lines

Pullmantur

Hapag Lloyd Kreuzfahrten

AIDA Cruises

Related port

Malmo

Cruise terminal located, Frihamnen close to City centre. Terminal is a converted warehouse with a new exterior profile, fitted with new light inlets, it encompasses some 1,000 square metres. Here you have 400 seats plus facilities for checking in and out. Tourist information in terminal. Malmö city is a vibrant marketplace full of exciting shops, tasty restaurants and cozy coffeeplaces! Tourist information at a number of “infopoints”, About 646 shops and 250 cafés and restaurants, some are located along the highstreet and some inside three citymalls: Hansa, Kv. Caroli and Triangeln. Don´t forget to take stroll along the smaller streets parallell to the highstreet. You find the most lovely and unique shops and cafés there! We recommend a visit to “Davidshallstorg“, for eclectic style, fair fashion and cusstomemade jewellery. For design and interior decoration visit “Engelbrektsgatan”. Lilla torg is surrounded by great restaurants, bars and cafés and a very popular meetingplace.