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Today Carnival took delivery of the 130,000 ton Carnival Dream from Fincanteri in Italy. This is a traditional maritime ceremony, where the Fincanteri flag is lowered and the Carnival house flag is raised. The ship is currently, at the time…
So as we near the delivery date and the Dreams maiden voyage, more and more photos are making their way out of Monfalcone, Italy. This batch of photos released today are of the lanai whirlpools. Remember that the Dream features…
There are some more pictures of the cabins on the Dream Page. CruiseInd’s Carnival Dream Page
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Bizarre story from off of Florida. A man jumped from the Carnival Sensation while cruising off the coast of Florida. Local ships aided in the rescue and the Disney Wonder found him first and grabbed him up from the water.…
Carnival As stated before the Carnival Glory will alter its itinerary to skip St. Maarten today and Grand Turk will be called at tomorrow. Royal Caribbean The Adventure of the Seas will possibly call in Dominica instead of Antigua. I…
Trying to confirm, but rumor floating around this morning is that the Carnival Glory will Skip St. Maarten to avoid the storm. As you can see the path of the storm is the exact same route that ships sailing the…
I found an assorted number of pictures of the Dream and updated the Carnival Dream Page.
Update 10:54 pm: Updates are in Bold. Hurricane Jimena is currently sitting off the Mexican coast in the pacific Ocean threatening a direct hit on Cabo san Lucas. As Jimena sits there, she is prompting several I itinerary changes. Lets take…
So here at CruiseInd, I decided to start covering Hurricanes as relating to current vessel positions and the alterations that may occur. On each post I’ll include vessel alterations and then have an updated map below. Carnival Carnival Glory skipped…
Spanish cruise line Pullmantur’s Atlantic Star, now docked in Marseille, France, will not leave the port until at least January 1, 2010. Originally built as FairSky for Sitmar Cruises in 1984, she became the Sky Princess after Sitmar was bought…
I updated the Carnival Dream page with pictures from the sea trials. These come by way of Carnival themselves.
Well I’m back and as promised here is everything that happened recently including two big stories out of San Diego and Dubai. A domestic dispute turned deadly as a husband murdered his wife in their cabin. A couple on the…
Carnival’s latest ship, the Carnival Dream, is being outfitted in Italy’s Fincantieri’s Monfalcone yard. She is due to enter service in fall. As with Oasis, all new construction goes on several sea trials to make sure equipment and hardware work…
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So I go to sleep and it was a slow day in the industry. I wake up to news that a cruise ship off of Egypt suffered a serious fire. Here is what I know so far: Princess Cruises Royal…
Kind of an update to my previous entry. Browsing through some pictures I came upon the Carnival Splendor sailing out of San Francisco harbor. Here she is seen passing under the Golden Gate Bridge on May 11th.
Normally this would be just a regular cruise ship in a regularly scheduled port, but not this time. The swine flu, H1N1, or whatever they are calling it now, scared shipowners into dropping all port-of-calls in Mexico. This led to…
With all the recent publicity of new ships, think Norwegian Epic and Oasis of the Seas, the Carnival Dream, Carnival Corp’s answer to the previous two, seems left out. Well not to leave her behind, here are recent shipyard photos.…
In late June, Carnival will resume the previous itineraries with the scheduled stops in Mexico. A complete list of exact dates can be found here. All announced altered cruises, the ones avoiding Mexico, will still avoid Mexico. This decision comes…
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Carnival just announced them. Here they are. 5/4 Carnival Imagination – Cozumel is replaced with Nassau 4/30 Carnival Destiny – Cozumel is replaced with Nassau 5/3 Carnival Triumph – Cozumel is replaced with Belize 5/2 Carnival Liberty- Cozumel is replaced…
Only on departures until May 4th. For those interested, tomorrow they will post revised itineraries, and I’ll post them here. They say it’ll affect 16 ships, but I don’t know about the Triumph. Carnival Conquest Carnival Destiny Carnival Ecstasy Carnival…
This just in. Word is that Carnival’s Inspiration and Holiday are skipping Cozumel and the Elation is skipping Ensenada today. Holland America’s Ryndam is also skipping Mazatlan as well. If I hear anything more, I’ll post it. UPDATE 1:20pm: Carnival…