An interview with Stelios Haji-Ioannou - Greek cruises for ordinary folks

**Ally** · 10-22-2007, 08:34 AM

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Stelios Haji-Ioannou said that easyCruise plans on adding one ship a year to the venture.

By Haris Argyropoulos - Kathimerini English Edition

Serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the chairman of easyGroup, is loose again, this time on the Greek seas. After a successful first summer with long weekends in the Cyclades, easyCruise, one of his 17 ventures, has acquired a second, bigger ship and is adding three new itineraries: Classical Greece, a seven-night journey stretching from Cape Sounion to Ithaca, a 10-night trip on the Ionian Sea going as far as the port of Agioi Saranta in Albania, and a seven-night Aegean cruise on the new acquisition, easyCruiseLife, that includes calls at cosmopolitan resorts such as Myconos and Bodrum in Turkey, as well as at Syros, Kos, Samos and Paros.

“The popularity of our 2007 season has proved that people are very keen to cruise the Aegean Islands. We intend adding one ship a year in the coming years, depending on the success of the second ship,” Haji-Ioannou told a press briefing on board easyCruiseOne on Thursday.

Unlike traditional cruising, easyCruise sails for just a few hours each morning, giving passengers the opportunity to explore each destination until the next day...........

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