The season is due to start on April 11, with the stopover of the “Sky Princess”, 330 m long and capable of carrying 3,560 passengers.
Will there be cruise ships calling at La Rochelle this year? In 2020, the arrival of the Covid-19 epidemic led to cascading cancellations and a blank year. The state of the epidemic will therefore be a determining factor, again this year. For the time being, the site croisierenet.com offers 34 offshore cruises with a stopover in La Rochelle, a figure which also appears on the website of the Grand Port Maritime – passengers disembark at the commercial port.
If the epidemic allows it, the first ship to moor will be the “Sky Princess”, on April 11, 2022. The 330 m liner can accommodate 3,560 passengers in addition to the crew. Coming from Southampton (England), he will leave for Bilbao (Spain).
sea giant
But the most imposing of the expected liners is 347.1 m. This is Royal Caribbean International’s “Anthem of the Seas”. A giant of the seas capable of carrying 4,905 passengers, not including the crew. The ship must pass for the first time in July and return three times by the end of the season set for October 9.
Before Covid-19, La Rochelle welcomed between 20 and 35 ships per season, for a total of passengers invited to go shopping in town of up to 30,000.