EasyCruise to Triple Capacity in 2008

The success of EasyCruise’s inaugural summer season in Greece has prompted the unorthodox and innovative cruise operator to more than triple its capacity for summer 2008. The line’s new flagship, to be named EasyCruise Life, will accommodate 540 passengers and will enter service in April 2008.

The hallmark of EasyCruise is that itineraries include overnight stays in port so guests can enjoy nighttime fun ashore. The new vessel will offer a seven-night itinerary that visits Turkey for the first time, calling at Bodrum, one of the country’s most popular resorts. Bodrum is awash in white, stucco hillside houses, charming waterfront cafes and ancient treasures, and enjoys a nightlife known throughout the Aegean.

The new itineraries will also showcase six different Greek Islands from laidback Syros and Samos to lively Kalymnos, Kos, Paros and Mykonos, the legendary jet-set mecca. Guests can uniquely choose to join the cruise in Piraeus (Athens) on Saturdays or in Bodrum on Mondays.

This fall and next spring, the line’s EasyCruise One will be deployed on a new seven-night itinerary that showcases some of the most amazing archaeological sites in Classical Greece, including Mycenae, Nemea, Olympia and Delphi.