TUI Cruises, the Hamburg based premium market cruise shipping company, says it will host a number of prominent artists on board its vessels next year.

In addition to Rockliner 3, the heavy metal cruise featuring Udo Lindenberg, and a birthday cruise of Mein Schiff 1 with the cabaret artist Ina Muller, TUI Cruises will host authors Dora Heldt, Michaela Merten and Pierre Franckh; German pop with the group Wind, the chanson artist Ulla Meinecke plus the singer Johannes Oerding, and pianist Joja Wendt in the course of next year.

The company, which currently has wo ships, will introduce Mein Schiff 3 next spring and Mein Schiff 4 in the following year.