Marella Cruises still holds out hope that improvement in the Coronavirus situation will allow it to commence its summer 2020 program in July with three of its five ships.
Marella Explorer will set sail from Corfu, Marella Explorer 2 from the UK and Marella Discovery from Palma all as originally planned.
Marella Discovery 2, top of page, will start sailings in winter 2020 and will no longer operate from Naples for the summer 2020 season, while Marella Dream will not be sailing from Palma this season as will resume in summer 2021.
Marella Celebration will be retired from the fleet, as previously announced.
Winter 2020
The Marella Discovery 2 will homeport in Cyprus, setting sail from 24 March, 2021, and replacing the itineraries that Marella Celebration was due to sail. This means Marella will no longer offer its Asia and the Middle East sailings. Customers due to sail from Cyprus on Marella Celebration during March and April will be automatically upgraded to Discovery 2 at no additional cost.
Marella Discovery will no longer sail her December and January sailings from Jamaica and will officially set sail on 3 February, 2021 with a repositioning cruise from Malaga to Jamaica before continuing her Caribbean program from Jamaica as planned on 16 February.=
There will be no changes to Marella Explorer 2 and Marella Explorer with Explorer 2 still homeporting in Barbados and Marella Explorer in the Canaries as planned.
Summer 2021
Marella Explorer 2 will no longer homeport in Naples for summer 2021 as the cruise line will no longer operate sailings from Naples; this means the ship will replace Marella Celebration’s itineraries from Dubrovnik. Customers due to sail on Celebration from Dubrovnik will be automatically upgraded at no additional cost.
Marella Explorer, Marella Dream, Marella Discovery and Marella Discovery 2 will all sail their itineraries as planned. Including the cruise line’s new USA itineraries on Marella Discovery.