Venizelos is a Greek ferry, and second oldest ship in the ANEK Lines fleet.

Komuny Paryskiej, Gdynia, Poland as Stena Polonica and completed in 1992 in Perama, Piraeus, Greece as El Venizelos.

It has four Zgoda-Sulzer 16ZV 40/48 diesel engines,[3] with combined power of 34,130 kW and can reach a speed of 22 knots.It also has WiFi Internet, two restaurants.

[4] It is named after Eleftherios Venizelos, a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece and has Cretan origins.

On 30 March El Venizelos laid-up since three days in Piraeus Anchorage had cases with the COVID-19.

However, in 1986, Stena Line cancelled its delivery because none of the equipment for the interior was produced, as well as because of several long delays.

She was then laid up in Gdynia until 1988, when Fred Olsen, a Norwegian cruising company, bought the hull, which was unofficially named Bonanza.

It was laid up for one more year, before Anonymous Naftiliaki Eteria Kritis (ANEK) bought her for $6.5 million.

She was towed by Maersk Blazer to Eleusis Bay on 16 February, and by November she was moved to Perama to start completion.

She was the biggest and largest ferry in the Greek coastal service for 18 years, until the delivery of Cruise Olympia and Cruise Europa for Minoan Lines, and she remains the biggest and largest ferry flying the Greek flag.

[6] In the summer of 2004, the ship was chartered to the company Tunisia Ferries (also known as Compagnie Tunisienne de Navigation, or COTUNAV).

In March 2020, she was chartered to a Turkish Company as a floating hotel for workers in Cadiz, Spain for 1.5 month.

The ship returned to Piraeus, Greece but the Greek authorities didn't allow to enter the port.