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AIDA, Princess, Holland America, Seabourn detail Russia-related itinerary changes

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Copenhagen is among the ports picking up calls that would have gone to St. Petersburg. Here. AIDAdiva alongside
AIDA Cruises, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line and Seabourn detailed itinerary changes due to the Russia-Ukraine situation following Carnival Corp. & plc's week-ago notice this would be coming.

AIDA Cruises

AIDAdiva, AIDAmar, AIDAnova and AIDAvita will substitute St. Petersburg with ports like Riga, Latvia; Copenhagen, Oslo or Visby, Sweden.

AIDAvita, whose cruises until the end of May were canceled earlier, will now make its first voyage July 24.

AIDAdiva will call at Riga, Latvia, or Copenhagen on its seven-day Baltic Sea round-trips from Warnemünde between May 14 and Oct, 8, 2022. The May 7 cruise will include a visit to Hamina in southern Finland.

AIDAnova's seven-day round-trips from Kiel with departures between May 14 and Oct. 15 will visit Baltic ports as well as Norway and Denmark. In the Baltic there will be an extended stay at the Estonian capital Tallinn. Kalundborg, Denmark, is also new on the itinerary.

AIDAnova will set course for Scandinavia on new voyages. Ports include Copenhagen; Kristiansand, Norway: and a two-day stay in Oslo.

On its 10-day Baltic round-trips, AIDAmar added Visby and Riga in lieu of St. Petersburg.

Princess Cruises

Princess modified 24 itineraries that were to call at St. Petersburg, with replacement ports varying by itinerary, including places like Stockholm (overnight call), Visby and Gdynia (for Gdansk), Poland.

Holland America Line

Holland America revised six cruises scheduled to visit Russian ports this year. Replacement ports vary by itinerary.

The five sailings that would have visited St. Petersburg will instead call at Baltic ports such as Riga; Klaipeda, Lithuania; and Visby, while also adding an overnight stay at Stockholm.

The cruise that was scheduled to visit Vladivostok, Russia, will instead call at Busan, South Korea.

Seabourn

Seabourn modified six itineraries on Seabourn Ovation that were to call St. Petersburg.

Replacement ports vary by voyage and will include such destinations as Gothenburg and Helsingborg, Sweden; Ulvik, Sandness (Stavanger) and Farsund, Norway; Aalborg, Denmark; and Amsterdam.