Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The AIDAsol's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m) — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.
One AIDAsol = 0.94 Titanics · 2.4 football pitches · 10 blue whales · 3.3 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
Plan a sailing on AIDAsol
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The numbers
| Length overall | 253.33 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 32.2 m waterline, 37.6 m max |
| Draught | 7.3 m |
| Height | 61 m |
| Gross tonnage | 71,304 GT |
| Passengers | ≈2,686 (max) |
| Installed power | 4 × Caterpillar MaK 9M43C |
| Entered service | April 2011 |
Put the AIDAsol next to something
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What makes it different
AIDAsol is the fifth Sphinx-series ship and one of the more quietly significant ones. She was among the first cruise ships anywhere fitted to take shore power — shutting her diesel generators down entirely while alongside and drawing electricity from the grid instead.
That matters more than it sounds. A large cruise ship at berth burns fuel continuously to run hotel services, and in city-centre ports like Hamburg that is the single biggest local air-quality complaint against the industry. Shore power removes it.
Her order in December 2007 also prompted a change to a ship already on the slipway: AIDAblu was enlarged mid-build to the 71,000-ton specification, which is why the last four Sphinx ships are bigger than the first three.
The AIDAsol line
Sphinx class
Shore power
Who operates the AIDAsol
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
AIDAIDA CruisesBaltic and Norwegian itineraries from Kiel and Hamburg.1✓→