{"id":40464,"date":"2023-05-21T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onbird.vn\/?p=40464"},"modified":"2023-05-21T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T04:30:53","slug":"on-the-21st-of-may-phu-quoc-island-welcomes-to-very-first-cruise-ship-costa-serena-back-after-3-years-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/on-the-21st-of-may-phu-quoc-island-welcomes-to-very-first-cruise-ship-costa-serena-back-after-3-years-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PHU QUOC ISLAND WELCOMES CRUISE SHIP -COSTA SERENA ON 21ST MAY 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the 21st of May, Phu Quoc Island welcomed the very first cruise ship named Costa Serena back after 3 years being affected by COVID-19 waves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Costa Serena anchored in Phu Quoc (Bach Dang Port) at around 7:00 and set to leave the island around 17:00 of the same day. The cruise ship (2017-built, last refurbished in 2023 April) is the second of all five Concordia-class Costa cruise ships) which carries 3,617 passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40466\" src=\"https:\/\/onbird.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/costa-serena-location-11-am-21-may.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Serena Location 11 Am 21 May\" width=\"1617\" height=\"623\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During 9:00 to 15:30, passengers are free to choose their inland activities. Passengers after finishing immigration customs on cruise will be escorted by small boats to Bach Dang Port.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In which, a popular itinerary for our customers is to take a private transfer to visit some well-known places of South Phu Quoc Island, namely SunWorld Hon Thom Cable Car, Kem Beach, Sao Beach, Ho Quoc Pagoda, drop by some beachside lunches or front street marts to purchase some necessary stuff before heading back to the port of cruise disembarkation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onbird.vn\/private-car-rental-suggestions-to-discover-southern-phu-quoc-island\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our self-guided itinerary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> works well so that our guests who contact us some days prior to their arrival date are able to navigate their schedule better on arrival.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phu Quoc local people are almost not being widely informed about the cruise ship arrival by the media then not many people were able to arrange to be at the port as previously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, one thing that many local residents hope for is many more cruise ships arriving in the near future which helpfully boost the tourism of the island after a long time of difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact us to make a crafted plan for your customers if you&#8217;re inbound travel companies or to design a plan that fits your short visit if you&#8217;re independent travelers because we know our island well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"p8IRBJuKXe\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/onbird.vn\/comprehensive-phu-quoc-weather-guides-by-months-in-details\/\">Comprehensive Monthly Phu Quoc Weather Guides Based on OnBird\u2019s Observations<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Comprehensive Monthly Phu Quoc Weather Guides Based on OnBird\u2019s Observations&#8221; &#8212; OnBird | Phu Quoc Soft-adventure Journeys\" src=\"https:\/\/onbird.vn\/comprehensive-phu-quoc-weather-guides-by-months-in-details\/embed\/#?secret=p8IRBJuKXe\" data-secret=\"p8IRBJuKXe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information about Costa Serena cruise ship:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each of the\u00a0<strong>Costa Serena<\/strong>\u00a0cruise ship deck plans are conveniently combined with a legend (showing cabin codes) and detailed review of all the deck&#8217;s venues and passenger-accessible indoor and outdoor areas. A separate link provides an extensive information on\u00a0Costa Serena staterooms\u00a0(cabins and suites), including photos, cabin plans and amenities by room type and category.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Costa Serena cruise ship deck plan shows a total of 1507 staterooms for 3014 passengers (max capacity is 3617 guests), served by 1070 crew\/staff. The boat has 13 passenger decks (all named after zodiac constellations), 5 restaurants, 13 lounges and bars, 4D cinema, 4 swimming pools (2 with retractable glass roofs), 5 outdoor Jacuzzies (plus 6x Samsara Spa Suites with their own hot tubs), 18 elevators. Serena has no self-service laundromats on board.<\/p>\n<p>On Serena, there are\u00a0a total of 312 original artworks and 5990 prints on display at various places throughout the ship.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40514\" src=\"https:\/\/onbird.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/close-up-view-of-costa-serena.jpg\" alt=\"Close Up View Of Costa Serena\" width=\"1000\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 21st of May, Phu Quoc Island welcomed the very first cruise ship named Costa Serena back after 3 years being affected by COVID-19 waves. Costa Serena anchored in Phu Quoc (Bach Dang Port) at around 7:00 and set to leave the island around 17:00 of the same day. The cruise ship (2017-built, last<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/on-the-21st-of-may-phu-quoc-island-welcomes-to-very-first-cruise-ship-costa-serena-back-after-3-years-of-covid-19\/\">&#8230;[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[936,1051,1053],"tags":[4106,4108,4110,4112,4114,4116,4118,4120,1212,4122,4124,1288,1876],"class_list":["post-40464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phu-quoc-island-explorer","category-phu-quoc-things-to-do","category-islands-an-thoi-archipelago","tag-car-rental-in-phu-quoc","tag-costa-cruise","tag-costa-serena-to-vietnam","tag-cruise-ship-to-vietnam","tag-cruise-to-phu-quoc","tag-phu-quoc-car-rental","tag-phu-quoc-cruise","tag-phu-quoc-day-tour","tag-phu-quoc-trip","tag-plan-in-phu-quoc","tag-private-car-rental-in-phu-quoc","tag-south-phu-quoc","tag-vietnam-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}