VESSEL REVIEW | Carnival Celebration – New Caribbean cruise ship with 5,200-guest capability

Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line has taken supply of its second Excel-class cruise ship following building at Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku.

Like its earlier sister ship Mardi Gras, the Bahamas-registered Carnival Celebration has a size of 1,131 toes (345 metres), a beam of 136.8 toes (41.7 metres), a gross tonnage of 180,800, and capability for five,374 visitors and 1,735 crewmembers throughout 18 decks with six themed zones. The Excel-class newbuilds’ dimensions make them the most important ships ever to affix the Carnival Cruise Line fleet. A 3rd ship, the long run Carnival Jubilee, is underneath building at Meyer Werft in Germany and is scheduled for supply in 2023.

An LNG propulsion system delivers a service velocity of 17 knots and a high velocity of 23 knots.

The lodging areas embody 180 suites and a couple of,641 single staterooms in 4 classes. The hallways between the staterooms are additionally noticeably wider than on Carnival’s earlier ships, making certain simpler entry for visitors and crew. The eating choices in the meantime encompass 10 eating places and 11 bars.

For recreation, the ship boasts services reminiscent of a theatre and different venues for reside leisure, a health centre, a spa/salon, swimming pools, a water park, a on line casino, exercise areas for youthful visitors, sports activities courts, a jogging monitor, a library, duty-free outlets, and a curler coaster.

A notable space of the ship is a three-deck-high atrium that additionally homes an leisure complicated and eating places. Massive floor-to-ceiling home windows on this space present visitors with a near-unobstructed view of the skin over the starboard facet.

Most of the design components – such because the names of the onboard areas – have been both impressed by or sourced from among the earlier ships within the Carnival fleet, as Carnival Celebration went into service at across the identical time that the corporate celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. For instance, one of many lounges on Celebration options precise art work and different gadgets that have been initially fitted on a few of Carnival’s now-retired ships.

Carnival Celebration is homeported in Nassau however is presently working out of Miami, serving itineraries overlaying the jap, western, and southern Caribbean.

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