Three concordant regulatory identifiers on a single hull
The Avalon Affinity left the line's fleet between 12 October and 4 November
2018. The trade announcement of the time names her explicitly, alongside two
other ships, and gives the reason: the brand was moving to a European fleet made
up entirely of suite ships, and this 2009 hull fell short of the threshold.
She became the MS Monarch Governess for an American tour operator, then the
A-ROSA ALEA in 2024, under German flag, home port Cologne, on the Rhine with runs
onto the Main and the Moselle. One hundred and ten metres by eleven metres
forty-five, sixty-nine staterooms including four junior suites, one hundred and
thirty-eight travellers.
Why this chain is sound, and where doubt remains
This is the best-established file in the whole fleet. Three independent
registers give the same hull number and the same radio identifier to the ship
under her three successive names. One hull, three commercial flags, three
concordant numbers.
The doubt lies elsewhere. A body of German writing of good quality reverses
the two ships sold to the same operator, giving the Avalon Creativity the name
that in fact belongs to this one. The hull numbers settle it in favour of our
version, but neither the original line nor the current operator publishes the
former names. We say so rather than settle it in their place.
A second reservation: the legal nature of the transfer, sale or charter, is
documented nowhere. So we never write that the line sold this ship.
The active ships in the fleet
The Avalon Tranquility II holds the Rhine and the Moselle for the line. The Avalon Imagery II covers four
rivers. The Avalon View and the Avalon Panorama are 135-metre hulls on the Rhine.
From Quebec
None of these itineraries begins here. A transatlantic flight is required and
it is not included in the cruise fare. From Montreal several embarkation cities
are reachable without a connection in season; elsewhere, expect one connection
in Europe.
Arriving a day early is not a luxury. A delayed bag or a shifted flight can
be absorbed by one spare day, and cannot be absorbed at all if you land on the
morning of departure. Plan the return day too: leaving the ship happens earlier
than people expect.
Our advisors assemble the flight, the cruise, the hotel nights and the
insurance in a single file, and you remain covered by Quebec's compensation fund
for travel agency customers. Write to us and we will look at what the season
allows.
