After its first visit last May, the ship Ambition of the Ambassador Cruise Line company will make its second scheduled stop of the year in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on Friday, September 20. The Gare Maritime Transatlantique will be expected to welcome nearly 1 passengers, mostly British. For this start of the voyage from Newcastle with a stopover in Dundee in Scotland, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin will be the first French city to welcome cruise passengers aboard this beautiful ship with its purple and green hull.
Boat features
THEAMBITION was inaugurated on June 25, 1999 in Saint-Nazaire under the French flag (Wallis & Futuna) for Festival Croisières as MISTRAL. Two other jumbo ships will be delivered subsequently, the EUROPEAN VISION (2001) and the EUROPEAN STARS (2002), which now operate as MSC Armonia et MSC Sinfonia. When Festival went bankrupt in 2004, the liner was taken over by the Saint-Nazaire shipyards, which sold it to Iberocruceros. Renamed Grand Mistral, it then serves the Spanish-speaking market. Its rear part will be completely modified to receive new balcony cabins. Here again, it will leave Iberocruceros just before the latter's closure, transferred to Costa, for which it becomes the COSTA neoRIVERA end of 2013. In December 2019, transformed again (the nightclub will also become cabins), it becomes theAIDAmira for the German shipowner, but will only make three cruises for it before the pandemic begins. Eventually, it will be withdrawn from the fleet and sold to Ambassador Cruise Line, which will rename it AMBITION. It was first chartered for six months in Glasgow by the Scottish government to serve the floating hotel for Ukrainian refugees before resuming its cruises in May 2023. © Association Paquebots & Marine Marchande
- Length : M 216
- Accommodation capacity : up to 1 passengers
- Crew : up to 470 people
- Flag : Bahamas (Nassau)
- Nationality on board (majority): British
Shipping Agent : Humann & Taconnet Tour Operator: math
Stopover itinerary
(Of 16 to 30 September 2024)
Newcastle > Dundee > Cherbourg > La Corgone > Gijon > Bilbao > Le Verdon > Lorient > Guernsey > Honfleur > Newcastle.
Excursions and services offered during the stopover in Cherbourg:
The excursions will take you to the landing beaches, Val de Saire and Cherbourg on foot.
The services offered :
- Information Desk at the Cruise Terminal from 07 a.m. to 00:16 p.m.;
- Presence of a representative of La Cité de la Mer in the morning;
- Cruise Greeters present to guide and accompany passengers;
- Shuttle service will provide from 08:00 a.m. to 16:00 p.m. the connection between the Cruise Terminal and the city center, in collaboration with Cap Cotentin.
Cruise stopovers 2024
To find out everything about the year's arrivals, consult the stopover program.
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