Saga Cruises
Acromas Travel Ltd.. is a British cruise company, operating under the trade name saga. The company's headquarters is located in Folkestone, UK. Under the umbrella of Acromas Travel the travel company Acromas Holidays Ltd with the trade name of Saga Holidays, and to shipping subsidiary Acromas Shipping Ltd, which operates under the trade name of Saga Shipping works. Currently, the Saga Sapphire and Saga Pearl II will be operated by the company.
- 2.1 Former ships
History
The first ship in the former Saga Fjord was taken over by the company. After their six- year-old charter had expired for Transocean Tours, they brought the ship in 1997 under the new name of Saga Rose in driving. In November 2009, the Saga Rose was finally taken out of service because the requirements of SOLAS 2010 were not met. The last cruise of the ship was a 37 -day Mediterranean tour.
Since the year 2003, built in 1989 Minerva was also chartered for temporarily increasing their fleet by Saga Cruises. During these missions, the ship sailed under the name Saga Pearl. In 2004, the fleet was extended permanently to a vessel was to the former Caronia, a sister ship of the Saga Rose, acquired by Cunard and renamed Saga Ruby. After the modernization in a Maltese Shipyard, the ship left for its first cruise under the direction of Saga in March 2005 - the last of which ended on January 9, 2014 in Southampton.
As a replacement for the Saga Rose was the built in 1880 at the German shipyard Howaldtswerken - AG in Hamburg Astor, then taken over by the name of Astoria. After a conversion of around 14 million pounds sterling, the ship came from mid-March 2010 under the name Saga Pearl II used again.
In 2011, the fleet was strengthened by the purchase of the former European Hapag -Lloyd on. Between November 2011 and February 2012, the ship at the Fincantieri shipyard in Trieste was overhauled and renamed Saga Sapphire. However, on the first trip in mid April 2012, under a new name, there was an engine failure, the zunichtemachte the planned cruise.
Spirit of Adventure Cruises
Within the company has been trying since 2005 Spirit of Adventure Cruises build as a second brand. For another ship was purchased in March 2006 and operated initially under the name Spirit of Adventure. After being separated again in 2012 for this ship, the Saga Pearl II was renamed Quest of Adventure and operated for the second brand. Finally, it was decided in 2013 to completely abandon the brand and the Quest of Adventure was incorporated under the old name back to the main fleet.