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Carnival Dream Laser Show

These photos come from carnival, showcasing their Laser show. Nightly shows around the main pool area show off laser and smoke shows. SO may better things that could be done there. I hope these don’t last too long and it…

Carnival Will (give up) Title of Largest Ship

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…

Oasis and Dream

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…

[ARCHIVED] Carnival Dream

This is an archived post that appeared on CruiseInd on Sep 24, 2009 @ 20:14 To view the old Carnival Dream page: click here – Carnival Dream Sailing into Venice this past weekend. ___________________________________________________________________          

Carnival Dream Handover

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:

Carnival Dream

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…

Carnival Dream Shipyard Report #8

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…

Rumor: Carnival Glory Impacted by Erika

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…

Carnival Dream Returns from Sea Trials

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…

Last Carnival Splendor Update

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.

Carnival Splendor in Astoria

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…

Carnival Dream Shipyard Photos

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.…

Carnival’s Calling at Mexico Once Again

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…

Swine Flu update for 4/29

Royal Caribbean’s are set in stone. Carnival will announce the overhauled itinerary for the Splendor later today. Here are some other itinerary changes: Holland America. HAL may announce alternate ports later today. Ryndam – San Diego, Los Angeles, Catalina Island,…

Carnival now getting in on flexible dining.

Carnival announced this week that the worlds largest cruise line will now take part in a flexible dining option. From my understanding, you can choose from early seating, late seating, or Your Time Dining. With the latter option guests can…

Carnival Ecstasy to get Balconies Added

When the Ecstasy emerges from drydock in September she will not only have the Evolutions of Fun features, she will also have these Balconies added. Yes they are not the most attractive thing, and yes they ruin her profile, but…