Ibero Cruises
Madrid, Spain | |
| Products | Cruises |
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| Website | http://www.iberocruceros.es (via the Web Archive) |
Ibero Cruises (
Mediterranean, and South America
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History
The company was founded in 2003 as Viajes Iberojet and renamed in 2007 and became a joint subsidiary of
Carnival Cruises was transferred to the fleet of Ibero.[1] An additional ship, the Grand Holiday
, was transferred into the fleet in 2009 from Carnival.
It was announced in November 2014, that Costa Cruises would absorb Ibero Cruises in its entirety by the end of the year. The Grand Celebration would be transferred to the main fleet of
Costa Crociere as the Costa Celebration.[2] Also the Grand Holiday would be transferred to the British Cruise & Maritime Voyages as the Magellan.[3]
Ibero's docking slots in Barcelona would be devoted solely to Costa's newest ship, the Costa Diadema as well.[4][5]
Former fleet
| Ship | Class | Built | Entered service for Ibero Cruceros |
Tonnage | Flag | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Latino | Royal Viking Star class | 1973 | 2004–2005 | 21,891 GRT |  Portugal |
Built as Royal Viking Sky for Royal Viking Line Sold to Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines in 2005 as Boudicca. Scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey in 2021. | 
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| Grand Voyager | 2000 | 2004–2011 | 24,427 GT | Portugal |
Previously Olympic Voyager for Royal Olympic Cruises, In 2011 transferred to Costa Cruises as Costa Voyager. .Sold to Bohai Ferry in 2014 as the Chinese Taishan |
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| Grand Mistral | Mistral class | 1999 | 2003–2013 | 48,200 GT | Portugal |
Previously Mistral for the failed Festival Cruises, now with Ambassador Cruise Line as Ambition. | 
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| Grand Celebration | Holiday class | 1987 | 2008–2014 | 47,262 GT | Portugal |
Previously Celebration for Carnival Cruise Lines. Transferred as the Costa Celebration to Costa Cruises in November 2014. Sold to Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line in December 2014. Scrapped in Alang, India in 2021. |
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| Grand Holiday | Holiday class | 1985 | 2010–2014 | 46,052 GT | Portugal |
Previously Holiday for Carnival Cruise Lines. She joined the Cruise & Maritime Voyages fleet in March 2015, as the Magellan.[6] Scrapped in Alang, India in 2021. |
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References
- ^ a b "Iberocruceros". Cruise Critic. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
- ^ "Grand Celebration to become Costa Celebration Later This Year". Cruise News. Cruise Industry News. 2014-05-09. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ^ "CMV announces new flagship to join fleet". Cruise Capital Image Archive.
- ^ "Ibero Cruises to be Absorbed into Costa Cruises - Cruise Currents". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ^ "Travel Daily | Costa to absorb Ibero".
- ^ Staff, CIN (3 November 2014). "Grand Holiday to CMV".
External links
Media related to Ibero Cruceros at Wikimedia Commons
- Iberocuceros Official website (Defunct) (in Spanish)
- Iberocuceros Official website (via the Web Archive) (in Spanish)
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