These are the cruise ships visiting Belfast in 2019
Last year was a record cruise season with over 200k passengers visiting the city ⚓️🚢
Last updated 19th Jun 2019
This year Belfast will be graced with a whopping 151 cruise liners carrying an expected 285,000 visitors to Northern Ireland.
Belfast Harbour has just released its schedule for 2019 and it includes inaugural calls for ‘Disney Magic’ and Cruise & Maritime Voyage’s new ship ‘Vasco da Gama’.
The first ship of the season CMV's Astoria docked last month on 12th March bringing over 550 passengers to our shores.
Some of the highlights of the upcoming cruise season include visits from Celebrity Reflection (3046 passengers) docking on 7th May, MSC Orchestra (3200 passengers) on 19th May and our most frequent visitor this year, the Crown Princess (3080 passengers) making its first call in early-May.
One of the largest passenger cruises stopping by will be Meraviglia, operated by MSC Cruises, weighing 171,598 tons which docks on 26th September (4500 passengers).
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Rapunzel and a host of other Disney stars – plus 3,650 passengers and crew – will be docking in Belfast Harbour 11th September as Disney Cruise Lines have confirmed they will visit for the first time.
The luxury liner, ‘Disney Magic’ is painted in Mickey Mouse-inspired colours – black hull, white superstructure, yellow trim and two giant red funnels – and is visiting Belfast as part of a seven-night British Isles cruise.
Details of this years full cruise schedule can be found on Belfast Harbour’s website www.belfast-harbour.co.uk/cruise-schedule