Mrslinarcos
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Has Anyone Sailed on Aida Cruise Ships?
- Thread starter Mrslinarcos
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Several of our friends have sailed on Aida, all Germans. The passenger mix tends to be on the younger side, it is a club ship with lots of activities and fitness (carrying their own mountain bikes for shore excursions).
Aida will only accept German speakers, I know of one Englishman who sailed with them but took some time to book and he had to prove he coúld speak German.
I would cruise with them to two places Amazon and Cape Horn
As the German market is becoming almost saturated with "local" cruise lines:
Aida
TUI Cruises
Hapag Lloyd
Pheonix
TransOcean
Ambiente Cruises (new)
Plantours (new)
Although German cruise lines are opening up to English speakers:
TransOcean
Aida will only accept German speakers, I know of one Englishman who sailed with them but took some time to book and he had to prove he coúld speak German.
I would cruise with them to two places Amazon and Cape Horn
As the German market is becoming almost saturated with "local" cruise lines:
Aida
TUI Cruises
Hapag Lloyd
Pheonix
TransOcean
Ambiente Cruises (new)
Plantours (new)
Although German cruise lines are opening up to English speakers:
TransOcean
Mrslinarcos
Deckhand
That's sounds really nice. I just wished I could speak German. I enjoyed your comments. 
Mrslinarcos
Deckhand
That wouldn't be a problem with me, if I needed to have someone to speak German for a trip on their ships, I would welcome it. Learning something new while listening to another person speak a language you can't is a wonderful experience.
Gripsholm1996
Deckhand
I am German and have travelled with a few AIDA ships. I can't imagine, that AIDA doesn't accept international travellers (there were people from many different countries on board - many of them not able to understand German).
Unfortunately this IS true.
And while for example many of the MSC Cruises staff are barely able to understand English I have to admit, that probably even less of the AIDA staff can speak English. (Contrary to the MSC at AIDA at least the officers did!)
But since the staff on AIDA is very service orientated I suppose that English (or other) speakers are taken care of as good as e.g. people with special health needs are.
haroldwilliams
Deckhand
There are many new German cruise lines now including FTI, and Passet, but I hope they can market their cruises to the American market ... MSC has announcements in five (5) languages, but have less languages for US cruises.
edit 7/9/2015
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Hello,
with the new ships AIDApirma, beeing build in japan#s Mitsubish yard, AIDA has changed their modus operandi significantly. There will be a variety of service Restaurants(!) available where one needs to make reservation for one, secondly AIDA Mngmnt. ahs stated that they will open sales in other countries as they are aware that they need to reach out to fill the added capacity. The ships have lots of innovative new features and she will which is also a first, be homeported in HAMBURG and saild from there on year round basis!! on seven day cruises.
VIDEO OF AIDAprima: http://www.cruise-tube.de/archiv/video/article/aidaprima-herzschlag-einer-neuen-generation.html?tx_ttnews[backPid]=731&cHash=b958dbc4aca75884fc7c18852f7d4939
As for officers not speaking english that is nonsense, as IMO regulation and german schooling provide for english language learning and knowledge. Service crew is as is the case with all cruise lines 70% from the Philippines and they speak english as we know. perhaps not Queens english, but enough for an punter and SilverSpoon carrier to understand.
Go, give them a try " we have way of making you like it" LMAO!!
Happy Cruising
Cruisefan
Was not able to upload a file some problem with Cruisingtalk IT??
with the new ships AIDApirma, beeing build in japan#s Mitsubish yard, AIDA has changed their modus operandi significantly. There will be a variety of service Restaurants(!) available where one needs to make reservation for one, secondly AIDA Mngmnt. ahs stated that they will open sales in other countries as they are aware that they need to reach out to fill the added capacity. The ships have lots of innovative new features and she will which is also a first, be homeported in HAMBURG and saild from there on year round basis!! on seven day cruises.
VIDEO OF AIDAprima: http://www.cruise-tube.de/archiv/video/article/aidaprima-herzschlag-einer-neuen-generation.html?tx_ttnews[backPid]=731&cHash=b958dbc4aca75884fc7c18852f7d4939
As for officers not speaking english that is nonsense, as IMO regulation and german schooling provide for english language learning and knowledge. Service crew is as is the case with all cruise lines 70% from the Philippines and they speak english as we know. perhaps not Queens english, but enough for an punter and SilverSpoon carrier to understand.
Go, give them a try " we have way of making you like it" LMAO!!
Happy Cruising
Cruisefan
Was not able to upload a file some problem with Cruisingtalk IT??