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Celebrity Cruises just announced plans to buy Galapagos Islands tour operator Ocean Adventures and its two small ships: the 48-passenger M/V ECLIPSE and the 16-passenger catamaran M/C ATHALA II. The pair will join Celebrity’s existing ship, the 100-passenger CELEBRITY EXPEDITION.
The expanded 3-ship fleet increases Celebrity’s capacity in the Galapagos by 65% and it means a greater choice of itineraries, including visits to Puerto Villamil, Darwin Bay, Black Turtle Cove, Chinese Hat Islet, and Wall of Tears. It also means more add-on land package options in the region, from Ecuador’s Andes Mountains to Machu Picchu and Amazon packages in Peru.
The two vessels will officially join the Celebrity Cruises fleet in the spring of 2016, pending the closing of the acquisition deal, and start sailing for Celebrity in early 2017 after they’re spruced up in a January dry dock.
(All existing Ocean Adventures’ bookings and reservation commitments will remain unchanged, both before and after the dry dock.)
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