“As of March 2025, we’ve run the Birka Gotland for a 12 months, so we’re solely in the beginning of our journey,” CEO of Gotland Alandia Cruises Kenneth Gustavsson instructed Cruise Business Information.
“Our intention is to create the perfect cruise expertise in Sweden, and to take action, we’ll proceed to develop the onboard ideas and locations.”
2025 Highlights and Choices
Gustavsson added that there are numerous highlights in 2025 that the corporate is wanting ahead to.
Throughout many of the 12 months, the Birka Gotland is about to supply every day departures from Stadsgårdskajen in Stockholm to Mariehamn on Åland.
On chosen dates, the vessel can be set to supply three- and four-night cruises to Visby, Härnösand, Riga, Bornholm and Ystad.
Passengers are additionally capable of embark in Mariehamn and Visby, and so a visit will be mixed with longer visits to Gotland.
“In fact, we’ll cruise to all our lovely Baltic Sea locations. We’re additionally arranging the very first Dance Band Week (Dansbandsveckan) on the Birka Gotland in January.”
Gustavsson particularly highlighted their appreciated Champagne and Wine Honest.
In line with the CEO, the cruise line’s choices fall right into a class all their very own.
“In fact, we’re providing nice leisure, scrumptious meals, a beautiful spa and wonderful procuring at a very charming ship. However the Birka Gotland can be the one vessel on the Baltic Sea purely providing cruises. We additionally supply a number of cruise locations that different delivery corporations don’t function from Stockholm,” he stated.
The Birka Gotland’s 4 cornerstones are the leisure, culinary expertise, procuring and Baltic Sea locations, Gustavsson defined.
“Our objective is to be the perfect within the Baltic Sea in these areas. We even have a transparent conceptualization of the completely different days of the week, primarily based on which goal teams journey with us and when. Which means that we adapt leisure and different onboard ideas primarily based on the friends’ preferences.”
So as to add to the providing’s flexibility, Gustavsson defined that the corporate shouldn’t be sure by common site visitors or the pressured timetables of freight site visitors.
“Now we have a sure flexibility in how we are able to create the cruise expertise. Now we have the posh of being fully centered on delivering an unforgettable cruise expertise, and that’s what we do greatest,” he added.
Visitors and Locations
Gustavsson stated that their supply for friends is primarily the Swedish market, however additionally they have a whole lot of curiosity from worldwide vacationers, tour operators, in addition to vacationers keen to find the Baltic Sea area.
As for his or her itinerary plans, he defined that the Åland Islands and the island of Gotland are the hub of their site visitors and can proceed to be so.
“Past that, we in fact produce other common Baltic Sea locations. In 2025, we’ll go to Höga Kusten and Ystad in Sweden, Bornholm in Denmark and Riga in Latvia. We’re presently new potential locations for the longer term as properly.”
Trying ahead
When all is claimed and completed, Gustavsson says that their mission is to get new goal teams to find cruises of their native area as a very good trip choice, a relaxed and accessible getaway from on a regular basis life.
“Now we have all of the alternatives to achieve this, because of our mixed abilities and expertise and, in fact, with the extremely proficient crew we’ve on Birka Gotland,” he stated.