“As of March 2025, we’ve run the Birka Gotland for a 12 months, so we’re solely at first of our journey,” CEO of Gotland Alandia Cruises Kenneth Gustavsson advised Cruise Business Information.
“Our purpose is to create one of the best 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 a lot of highlights in 2025 that the corporate is trying ahead to.
Throughout a lot of the 12 months, the Birka Gotland is about to supply day by 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 in a position to embark in Mariehamn and Visby, and so a visit may 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 Truthful.
In accordance 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, an exquisite spa and glorious procuring at a really charming ship. However the Birka Gotland can be the one vessel on the Baltic Sea purely providing cruises. We additionally provide a number of cruise locations that different transport corporations don’t function from Stockholm,” he mentioned.
The Birka Gotland’s 4 cornerstones are the leisure, culinary expertise, procuring and Baltic Sea locations, Gustavsson defined.
“Our objective is to be one of the best within the Baltic Sea in these areas. We even have a transparent conceptualization of the totally different days of the week, based mostly on which goal teams journey with us and when. Because of this we adapt leisure and different onboard ideas based mostly on the company’ preferences.”
So as to add to the providing’s flexibility, Gustavsson defined that the corporate isn’t certain by common visitors or the pressured timetables of freight visitors.
“We’ve got a sure flexibility in how we are able to create the cruise expertise. We’ve got the luxurious of being fully targeted on delivering an unforgettable cruise expertise, and that’s what we do greatest,” he added.
Company and Locations
Gustavsson mentioned that their supply for company is primarily the Swedish market, however additionally they have a number 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 visitors and can proceed to be so.
“Past that, we after all produce other in style Baltic Sea locations. In 2025, we’ll go to Höga Kusten and Ystad in Sweden, Bornholm in Denmark and Riga in Latvia. We’re at present new doable locations for the longer term as properly.”
Trying ahead
When all is claimed and carried out, Gustavsson says that their mission is to get new goal teams to find cruises of their native area as a really good trip possibility, a relaxed and accessible getaway from on a regular basis life.
“We’ve got all of the alternatives to achieve this, because of our mixed abilities and expertise and, after all, with the extremely gifted crew now we have on Birka Gotland,” he mentioned.