{"id":2723,"date":"2015-04-24T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2015-04-24T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:50:35","slug":"msc-cruises-replaces-autumn-and-winter-egyptian-and-ukrainian-calls-with-alternative-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/msc-cruises-replaces-autumn-and-winter-egyptian-and-ukrainian-calls-with-alternative-destinations\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC Cruises replaces autumn and winter Egyptian and Ukrainian calls with alternative destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msccruises.co.uk\/uk_en\/Cruise-Deals\/Special-Offers.aspx\">MSC\u00a0Cruises<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest privately-owned cruise line and fourth largest global player in the industry, have just announced that it has suspended remaining 2015 calls in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a>, replacing them with a number of choice Mediterranean alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bulgaria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2724\" title=\"Bulgaria\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bulgaria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bulgaria.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bulgaria-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunset, Kaliakra, Bulgaria \u00a9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plamenstoev\/\">Plamen Stoev<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MSC Sinfonia,\u00a0MSC Opera,\u00a0MSC Fantasia\u00a0and\u00a0MSC Musica\u00a0will, from autumn 2015 to winter 2016, incorporate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/bulgaria\/\">Bulgaria<\/a>, the Greek islands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/rhodes\/\">Rhodes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/crete\/\">Crete<\/a>, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/cyprus\/\">Cyprus<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>\u00a0into their sailings. The move has been taken in response to market demand and the on-going political unrest in Ukraine and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The affected cruises are:<\/p>\n<p>MSC Opera: 12-night Eastern Mediterranean sailings \u2013 Rhodes, Greece and Heraklion, Crete replace Alexandria, Egypt. Three departures affected [September 28, October 10 and October 22 2015].<\/p>\n<p>MSC Sinfonia: 12-night Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea sailings from Genoa \u2013 Burgas, Bulgaria replaces Odessa, Ukraine. Two departure dates affected [September 17 and October 11 2015].<\/p>\n<p>MSC Fantasia \u2013 11-night Eastern Mediterranean sailings \u2013 Rhodes, Greece and Heraklion, Crete replace Alexandria, Egypt. Six departure dates affected [December 17 2015, January 8, January 30, February 21, March 14 and March 25 2016].<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Egypt port calls have been removed from the repositioning \u2018Grand Voyages\u2019 of MSC Sinfonia and MSC Musica when the ships leave Europe in October and November and head for their winter home ports in Durban, South Africa and Dubai, UAE respectively. MSC Sinfonia will instead visit Heraklion, Crete and Eilat, Israel, and MSC Musica will call at Heraklion.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.msccruises.co.uk<\/span>\u00a0or call\u00a0020 3426 3010<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 MSC Cruises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSC\u00a0Cruises, the world\u2019s largest privately-owned cruise line and fourth largest global player in the industry, have just announced that it has suspended remaining 2015 calls in Ukraine and Egypt, replacing them with a number of choice Mediterranean alternatives. Sunset, Kaliakra, Bulgaria \u00a9\u00a0Plamen Stoev MSC Sinfonia,\u00a0MSC Opera,\u00a0MSC Fantasia\u00a0and\u00a0MSC Musica\u00a0will, from autumn 2015 to winter 2016, incorporate\u00a0Bulgaria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":3564,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[142,286,321,377,509,178,508],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-resort-bulgaria","tag-resort-crete","tag-resort-cyprus","tag-resort-egypt","tag-resort-israel","tag-resort-rhodes","tag-resort-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}