After delivery which is scheduled for June 2010, Cruise Olympia will join her sistership Cruise Europa, employed since October 2009 by Minoan Lines, the Greek shipping company part of the Grimaldi Group, on the Ancona/Igoumenitsa/Patras route.
Cruise Olympia, together with Cruise Europa, will be the biggest cruise ferry in the Mediterranean Sea and will be outfitted following the same high standards found on cruise ships. It will feature a wide range of onboard entertainment such as an à la carte and a self service restaurant, bars, a casino, wellness and fitness areas, a swimming pool, shops, a conference hall and a party hall, a discotheque, two halls reserved for drivers, an internet point, a video games corner and a children’s playroom.
Cruise Olympia is 225 meters long and 31 meters wide, with a gross tonnage of 54,310 tons and a loading capacity of 250 cars and 3,000 linear meters of coaches, trucks and campers. Cruise Olympia will accommodate up to 3,000 passengers in 413 comfortable cabins, 18 of which will be owner’s suites and 50 junior suites, besides 548 reclining seats. The ship will be able to operate at a service speed of 28 knots.
Cruise Olympia is designed bearing in mind environmental and energy saving requirement. To underline its environmental friendliness, the ship will be awarded the “Green Star” certificate by the Italian Ship Classification society (RINA), proving how these units have been designed, built and run to have a zero impact on the environment thanks to the “Clean Air” and ‘Clean Sea” notations.
