The French sailing cruiser Club Med 2 anchored in the port of Cienfuegos, in one of its stops in Cuba, within the Caribbean tour that this five-masted sailboat makes this season.
As reported by the Cuban News Agency (ACN), a hundred passengers were received in the Pearl of the South and will also visit Trinidad and Santa Clara.
This very Saturday, she sets sail for María la Gorda and Havana. Already at the beginning of February he was seen enter the bay habanera.
The ship, from the Club Med company, recalls “the time when sailing was synonymous with luxury, tranquility and pleasure”, as described by its operators.
Its size allows it to approach ports that large cruise ships cannot even dream of.
Usually Club Med2 alternates its routes between the Mediterranean and the Adriatic in the European summer, and the Caribbean during its winter.
Cruise tourism to Cuba gradually waking upafter the pandemic years.
However, the negative impact of the measures imposed by the government of Donald Trump against Cuba, which included the prohibition that US companies could continue docking in Cuban ports, under pain of receiving considerable fines under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.
This year the Cuban authorities hope to receive 3.5 million visitorsan ambitious goal that will be difficult to achieve.
