Originally scheduled for January, the Carnival Pride will instead sail into a drydock in November. Every 2-3 years ships will routinely head to a drydock for 2 weeks. Workers will replace carpets, update cabins, thoroughly clean all areas of the ship. Machinery may be replaced or overhauled. Things of that nature. Some of the [...]
I should have noticed something was up today when I checked the Galveston cam and saw that the Ecstasy was in Galveston on a Friday. Being able to see the Ecstasy walking to class and around campus at my alma mater, every Saturday, Monday, or Thursday, you gets used to associating those days with that [...]
Carnival Fascination lost power on Wednesday as it was cruising back to Jacksonville, FL. The ship was adrift in the Atlantic after what is being referred to the cruise line as a “technical malfunction.” But, power was restored after several hours and the ship successfully returned from its 5-Night Bahamas trip, albeit several hours late. [...]
Carnival just announced that the Carnival Magic (sister to the Carnival Dream) will home port in my former hometown of Galveston in November 2011. She will be joined by the slightly smaller Carnival Triumph. The Magic will operate the 7-night routes and the Triumph will do the 4&5-Night routes.
The current Galveston based ships, Conquest and [...]
This Just In…
Carnival Breeze has been selected as the name for the line’s new 130,000-ton cruise ship scheduled to enter service in spring 2012.
To be constructed by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, the 3,690-passenger Carnival Breeze will be the third in the line’s Dream class. The series’ namesake vessel, Carnival Dream, entered service in 2009 and [...]
Carnival released these high-res images of the Carnival Dream today. Some of them are typical, corny flickr photos but they are high-res. As you can tell, I have an addiction to high-res photos. Click the photo below and enjoy.
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This morning the Carnival Dream arrived state side by sailing past the Statue of Liberty, up the Hudson River and right into the NYC Passenger Ship Terminals.
The christening will take place today at 4:00pm EST.
Click here to watch the Live Christening at 4:00pm EST.
Live shots as of 11:50pm.
Carnival Dream as seen from Pied Piper [...]
…is Marcia Gay Harden. The ceremony will take place tomorrow after Carnival’s flagship arrives in the U.S. for the first time.
In an attempt to upstage Royal Caribbean and their Oasis of the Seas’, you’d think think that they would get a bigger name. Carnival has a lot of capitol available to them. I have [...]
Carnival announced that the Carnival Triumph and the Carnival Fantasy would delay their inaugural cruises out of new homeports.
The Carnival Triumph was set to call on New Orleans for the first time yesterday until mother nature had its way. The whole gulf coast, even as far as over here in Galveston, got rain. Although [...]
