The Italian cruise vessel Costa Serena has been scheduled for an expanded operational programme in 2027 that reconnects Mediterranean and South American deployments, marking her first substantial season in European waters following more than a decade of service in Asia. In late April, she will complete a trans-Atlantic transit to arrive at Costa’s Palacrociere Cruise Terminal in Savona, Italy, where she will commence her summer season of voyages around Southern Europe.
Upon arrival in the Mediterranean, Costa Serena is slated to undertake an initial 12-night passage through the Western Mediterranean, with calls at ports in Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco and Italy. Following that, she is planned to embark on a fourteen-night voyage into the Eastern Mediterranean, circumnavigating portions of Southern Europe and the Greek archipelago as well as Malta before returning to Savona. Those longer sailings are grouped ahead of a main summer rotation of shorter seven-night cruises departing from Italian and Maltese home ports, with scheduled visits to destinations such as Mykonos and Argostoli, replacing a similar deployment previously undertaken by Costa Fascinosa. Costa Serena’s seasonal pattern then returns her to western routes in the autumn, providing a series of brief coastal trips among Italy, Spain and France.
Prior to her Mediterranean reintroduction, Costa Serena is set to complete a winter season in the South American region that will be her first in nearly 15 years, following a circumnavigational cruise from Tokyo that brings her to the Southern Hemisphere in late December 2026. From that base she will operate a sequence of 3- to 9-night voyages along the Atlantic coasts of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay with departures from Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo through the early months of 2027.