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Costa Mediterranea Sails to Get Crew Home; Sets Course for China

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Costa Mediterranea (Photo: JD Schwartz / tributestudios.com)

Costa Crociere is preparing to use the Costa Mediterranea to get crew from the Philippines and Indonesia home, according to a document circulated on board the vessel.

According to Costa’s plan, the 2003-built ship will first sail to La Spezia on April 10.

European crew will be disembarked, as will crew not required for operational reasons that can also get home.

All other crew members, with the exception of the Filipino and Indonesian crew aboard, will be then moved to the Costa Pacifica.

“For these crew members we are restlessly working with Governments and air companies in order to guarantee a safe journey back to home,” the company’s letter said.

Meanwhile, Filipino and Indonesian crew aboard the Pacifica, except for those needed for minimum safety manning, will be transferred to the Costa Mediterranea.

The Mediterranea will then sail to Brindisi and meet the Costa Fortuna, taking on the Filipino and Indonesian crew from the latter ship.

Finally, the Mediterranea will set her course for Shanghai with projected port stops in Indonesia and the Philippines to disembark crew.

Costa said it is working closely with local government and manning agents to get crew home safely.

It is unknown what the company’s plans are for the ship in China, but the Mediterranea, along with the Atlantica, has recently been transferred to Carnival Corporation’s joint venture with China State Shipbuilding.

The Mediterranea has previously been scheduled to leave the fleet in 2021.

Costa Brings Spin Master Games Aboard for Kids

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Starting December 2013 the innovative games by Spin Master will be making their debut aboard Costa Crociere – a world first exclusive to Costa – on the Italian company’s ships, where they will be the stars of the “New Costa Adventures” entertainment program.

The Italian cruise company’s youngest Guests on two of its ships – the Costa Pacifica and the Costa Serena – will be able to enjoy a truly special vacation on board, with fantastic games stimulating their curiosity while they interact with other children, kids’ staff and parents. Many of these games are now household names worldwide – for example the remote control “Air Hogs” vehicles, the levitating “AtmoSphere”, the family board games “Beat the Parents” and “Fibber!”, and the “Flutterbye Flying Fairy”.

Thanks to the partnership with Spin Master Italy (Spin Master exclusive agent for Italy), a cruise with Costa confirms its reputation as the ideal vacation for the whole family. While parents and grandparents enjoy the cruise, young children and teens can have great fun at the free kids’ Clubs, where they will be supervised by dedicated kids’ staff and where the highlight will be the packed entertainment program featuring the Spin Master games.

The “New Costa Adventures” program includes a host of activities for children of all ages, all based on one or more Spin Master games: mission impossible with Spy Gear covert mission kits for secret agents; fun “drawing” for toddlers and their mums on the magic Aquadoodle color mat; hovering or bouncing off walls with AtmoSphere; aerial acrobatics with the remote control Air Hogs; courses on how to spread your wings and guide the Flying Fairy.

Thus the two Costa ships will turn into veritable floating “toy libraries”, where kids can while away the time between destinations on the itinerary: one-week Western Mediterranean cruises on the Costa Pacifica; 11-day cruises to Greece, Turkey and Israel or Morocco and Portugal on the Costa Serena.

This first phase of collaboration between Spin Master and Costa Crociere marks the beginning of a partnership that will continue in the Spring of 2014, when the Spin Master games and the “New Costa Adventures” program will be extended on 12 Costa ships.