He cruise deluxe Club Med 2 with flag of France arrived in Havana on Tuesday, according to the Gaviota tourism group, without specifying the number of tourists on board.
The ship belongs to the Club Med consortium and specializes in high-end All-Inclusive vacations focused on families and couples, according to a report from the agency Latin Press (PL).
Our Gaviota Tours team in #Havana Cuba receiving the cruise passengers from Club Med 2 ?@transgaviota @TaxisCuba_cu @ClubMedFR #GaviotaToursCuba #FutureGuarantee #CruisesforCuba pic.twitter.com/tPzkZ7ZmYj
— Gaviota Tours Cuba (@GaviotaToursCu) February 8, 2023
The five-masted ship has 184 cabins designed with simplicity and sophistication, “so that passengers enjoy tranquility and pleasure in the widest connection with the ocean and with maximum comfort,” says the medium.
Unlike the huge ships that characterize cruise tourism today, the Club Med 2 is smaller and has a shallow draft, which allows it to anchor in shallow waters.
The ship, which was launched in 1992, in Le Havre, France, is 194 meters long, 20 wide and 80 high, has eight decks and can accommodate 386 passengers and 214 crew members.
It sails at a speed between 10 and 15 knots, powered by two diesel-electric engines and computer-controlled sails, and usually cruises the Mediterranean Sea in summer and cruises the Caribbean Sea in winter.
The Club Med 2 is one of the few cruise ships of European origin that has arrived on the island so far in 2023, the year in which the tourist authorities set themselves the ambitious goal of receive 3.5 million foreign visitors.
Cruise tourism was one of the pillars that supported the best tourism statistics in Cuba, and that were affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and by the measures imposed by the Donald Trump government, which prevented the American companies continue docking in Cuban ports.
Several of these companies have been penalized with million-dollar fines, pursuant to the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, for the use for their activities of docks that were expropriated by the government led by Fidel Castro after the triumph of the Revolution. , in 1959.
