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AIDA Cruises receives latest member of the fleet – AIDAperla

ModelLena Gercke to christen AIDA's twelfth new ship on June 30 in Palma de Mallorca

Today(April 27, 2017), AIDA Cruises took delivery of AIDAperla in Nagasaki (Japan) fromMitshubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). In the presence of Michael Thamm, CEO CostaGroup, Felix Eichhorn, President AIDA Cruises, Shunichi Miyanaga, President andCEO MHI, and Kazuaki Kimura, President and CEO, Industry & InfrastructureMHI, the solemn commissioning of the 12th fleet member of AIDA Cruises tookplace in the course of a traditional Japanese ceremony.

AIDAperlawill set sail for the Mediterranean in the coming days and will be christenedby model and presenter Lena Gercke on June 30, 2017, in Palma de Mallorca.

"Employingtheir creativity and innovative strength, our team has convincingly succeededin meeting our high standards of product quality in an exemplary manner. Futureguests of AIDAperla, the second cruise ship of this new generation, can lookforward to unique cruising experiences on board thanks to the high-quality andinnovative technology," said Michael Thamm, CEO Costa Group, on the occasion ofthe ship handover.

FelixEichhorn, President AIDA Cruises: "With the successful commissioning ofAIDAprima in May 2016, we have inspired many guests for a cruise vacation. Forthe first time, more than 2 million Germans have decided to go cruising. With thesister ship AIDAperla we will be injecting further important growth momentuminto the German vacation market. Today, with our 12 ships sailing on 130different routes to more than 250 ports worldwide, we offer the greatestvacation diversity and we will inspire even more holidaymakers for one of the mostbeautiful ways of traveling".

Startingfrom June 1, 2017, before the official launch of the christening cruise on June24, 2017, there will be the opportunity to familiarize with the youngest fleetmember on a number of introductory cruises. The fife-day welcome cruise fromJune 1, to June 6, 2017, from Palma de Mallorca, leads to Marseille, Barcelonaund Valencia. Prices for this cruise start at 549 euros per person in aninterior stateroom (AIDA PREMIUM rate incl. 50-euro Early Saver discount).

FromJuly 1, 2017, AIDAperla will be traveling in the Western Mediterranean. Palmade Mallorca – the capital of the Germans' favorite island – and Barcelona willbe the start and end ports for the seven-day "Pearls of the Mediterranean"cruises which include destinations such as Rome (Civitavecchia), Corsica, andFlorence (Livorno).

FromMarch 2018 the Hanseatic City of Hamburg will be the home port of multipleseven-day round trips for AIDAperla to the most beautiful metropolises inWestern Europe, such as London (Southampton), Paris (Le Havre), Brussels(Zeebrugge) and Rotterdam.

Videosof the new AIDA generation via drone (# a ship tourby bike (# and the christening show of AIDAprimaagainst the Hamburg skyline on May 7, 2017 (# canbe seen on YouTube.

AIDAperla'sadditional cruises can be booked as of now at travel agencies, at the AIDACustomer Center at +49 (0)381/202 707 07 or at www.aida.de.

Rostock,April 27, 2017

AIDACruises:

AIDACruises is one of the fastest growing and commercially most successful tourismbusinesses in Germany. The company employs about 9,000 people from 40 countries on landand on board AIDA ships. AIDA Cruises operates one of the world's moststate-of-the-art fleets, currently comprising 12 cruise ships.

Twomore new ships will be built by 2021 at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg(Germany). With its "Green Cruising" concept, AIDA Cruises will be the firstcruise company in the world that can power its new generation of ships entirelywith LNG (liquid natural gas) from 2018. More information at www.aida.de

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