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.
source (flickr)
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 [...]
So it is kind of a slow time in the industry. The Dream is delivered and I am still looking for a good walk through of it.
The Oasis is back and settled in from the Sea trials. In fact all the crew have been assigned and will start arriving soon.
I have absolutely no idea why [...]
…Well only of the water park. The winner of the Carnival Book of Dreams contest, 8-year old Hailee Steberger of Egg Harbor, N.J., will have the honors of being the Carnival Dream’s water park Godchild. The Carnival Dream will be christened in New York’s Passenger Ship Terminal in November.
The contest involved kids submitting an [...]
Today, Carnival Corp’s President and C.E.O. Micky Arison stated that “Queen Mary 2 is probably the biggest ship we will ever build. Carnival Dream…is probably as large as we will build for Carnival.”
Mr. Arison continued on to state that the reason they don’t wish to build larger is the lack of flexibility they have [...]
I update some of CruiseInd’s ship pages:
The Carnival Dream page now has photos of her pulling into Venice while still on her maiden voyage.
The Oasis of the Seas page now has some external shots of her departing Turku Finland at the commencement of her 2nd seatrials.
Pretty slow recently. I’m eagerly awaiting photos from the Carnival Dream which has set sail on her maiden voyage.
Carnival reported that it earned 1 Billion (not million) this summer. This is good news as Micky Arison stated that guests are now booking more and more in advance, meaning the market is rebounding.
NCL is launching a [...]
These from John Heald’s Blog:
Gerry Cahill accepting the Carnival Dream
Micky Arison (worth $5.8 Billion for those wondering) C.E.O. of Carnival Corp. is on the left with his back to the camera:
Carnival Dream heading out:
