Celebrity Cruises to base five ships in Europe

Celebrity Cruises has announced they will be sending five of their ships to Europe in 2012 in the line’s biggest deployment ever to this region

The line’s four new vessels, Celebrity Solstice, Celebrity Eclipse, Celebrity Silhouette and Celebrity Equinox will all be sailing in the European region along with Celebrity Constellation in 2012

The five Celebrity ships in Europe in 2012 will sail 19 distinct itineraries from six departure ports: Venice, Rome, Southampton, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Barcelona.

Celebrity Equinox will home port in Civitavecchia, sailing 10 and 11-night cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean, visiting ports in Greece and Turkey.

Celebrity Eclipse will be based in Southampton for the summer, offering four unique 14-night itineraries in the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, Russia, Iceland, Fjords and the Canary Islands

Celebrity Constellation will sail from Amsterdam, offering seven Scandinavia, Russia cruises, one Arctic Circle cruise and one Norwegian Fjords cruise. In addition, the ship will sail three port-intensive, 12-night Greek Isles and Turkey cruises and three 12-night Holy Land sailings that each feature three days in Israel.

Celebrity Silhouette will sail a series of port-intensive Mediterranean cruises round-trip out of Venice as well as Mediterranean cruises between Venice and Rome, ranging from 11-13 nights in length, from May through to mid-August. In mid-August, Celebrity Silhouette will offer eight Holy Land voyages round-trip from Rome, ranging from 11-14 nights in length.

Celebrity Solstice will operate 12-night Mediterranean sailings round-trip out of Barcelona.