Cruise line offering Cayo Coco stop

Cruise line offering Cayo Coco stop

CUBA STANDARD — Cuba Cruise Inc., a Calgary-based startup company that
will offer around-Cuba cruises next winter season, is planning to offer
stops at Cayo Coco, according to Website Cuba Intensa.

This is the first time a cruise line makes a stop at the fast-growing
beach resort off the northern coast of Cuba.

Cuba Cruise, started by Toronto entrepreneur Dugald Wells, will use the
960-passenger Louis Cristal. The ship, owned by Cyprus-based Louis
Cruises, will be home-ported in Havana during 15 weekly runs this coming
season from December through March. Other stops of the seven-day cruise
include Punta Francés on the Isle of Youth, Cienfuegos, Montego Bay in
Jamaica, Santiago de Cuba, and Holguín.

The company's marketing is mainly aimed at European tourists. Cuba
Cruises bowed at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin in early March. Prices
start at €437 per double cabin.

Cuba Cruises joins Britain's Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines and Tropicana
Cruises, a London-based startup with links to Russia, in offering
cruises around the island. The cruise industry in Cuba has been hampered
by the fact that the world's largest cruise lines are U.S.-based and
subject to the embargo. At least two European companies that started
offering Cuba cruises were eventually bought by one of the U.S. cruise
giants and pulled out of Cuba. Other small European operators have come
and gone, beset by startup woes.

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