{"id":5939,"date":"2023-02-16T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/16\/carnival-cruise-lines-oldest-ship-gets-a-reprieve-from-the-scrappers-but-for-how-long-the-points-guy\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:30:37","slug":"carnival-cruise-lines-oldest-ship-gets-a-reprieve-from-the-scrappers-but-for-how-long-the-points-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/16\/carnival-cruise-lines-oldest-ship-gets-a-reprieve-from-the-scrappers-but-for-how-long-the-points-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Cruise Line’s oldest ship gets a reprieve from the scrappers \u2014 but for how long? – The Points Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It looks like Carnival Cruise Line<\/a>‘s oldest ship, Carnival Elation, will be sticking around for at least another couple of years.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old vessel has just gotten the sort of upgrade that doesn’t normally happen for a ship that is about to head to a scrapyard for dismantling \u2014 the fate that has met six of its seven sister vessels<\/a> in just the last three years.<\/p>\n

Carnival has been phasing out the eight ships in the series, which collectively are known as the Fantasy class and have long been the oldest ships in the Carnival fleet. But Carnival Elation appears to have gotten a reprieve.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Carnival revealed that Carnival Elation had returned to service after a makeover in a dry dock that brought it a new red, white and blue “livery” on its hull and such interior improvements as a revamped spa area.<\/p>\n

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The 2,130-passenger vessel sails four- and five-night voyages to the Bahamas out of Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n

Other than Carnival Paradise, a Fantasy-class vessel that debuted seven months after Carnival Elation, the ship is the only one in the Carnival fleet that dates to the 1990s \u2014 at least in its current form.<\/p>\n

Carnival also operates one other vessel that technically dates to the 1990s: Carnival Sunshine. However, that ship was completely gutted, rebuilt and expanded in 2013, after which it was renamed and rechristened. That makes its age something of an asterisk-worthy number in the cruise world.<\/p>\n

Carnival Sunshine originally was built in 1996 as the Carnival Destiny.<\/p>\n

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