{"id":92846,"date":"2024-04-25T21:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/monster-growth-the-cruise-boom-at-carnival-continues-with-debut-of-another-new-ship-the-points-guy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:30:38","slug":"monster-growth-the-cruise-boom-at-carnival-continues-with-debut-of-another-new-ship-the-points-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/monster-growth-the-cruise-boom-at-carnival-continues-with-debut-of-another-new-ship-the-points-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster growth! The cruise boom at Carnival continues with debut of another new ship – The Points Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Make that five new ships for Carnival Cruise Line<\/a> in just 18 months.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the world’s second-biggest cruise brand welcomed cruisers aboard yet another new vessel, the 4,126-passenger Carnival Firenze, for the first time in Long Beach, California.<\/p>\n

The 135,156-ton ship debuts just four months after Carnival unveiled the even bigger 5,374-passenger Carnival Jubilee<\/a> and 11 months after the line began operating the 4,090-passenger Carnival Venezia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The latter two ships operate out of Galveston, Texas, and New York City, respectively. Carnival Venezia also spends part of the year sailing out of Port Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n

Over the past 18 months, Carnival has also added the Miami-based, 5,374-passenger Carnival Celebration<\/a> and the Australia-based, 2,260-passenger Carnival Luminosa<\/a>. Carnival Luminosa also spends part of the year sailing out of Seattle.<\/p>\n

The addition of the five ships to the Carnival fleet over such a short time span marks one of the fastest expansions of any cruise brand in the history of cruising.<\/p>\n

With the addition of the five ships, Carnival now has a record 27 vessels in its fleet.<\/p>\n

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A new ship with an asterisk<\/h2>\n

Scheduled to sail year-round out of Long Beach, California, Carnival Firenze is a new ship for Carnival, but it’s new with an asterisk. The 15-deck-high vessel has sailed before for another cruise line, Italy-based Costa Cruises.<\/p>\n

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Originally called Costa Firenze, the vessel sailed its maiden voyage for Costa, a sister brand to Carnival, in July 2021, making it nearly three years old.<\/p>\n

Carnival Firenze is just one of several Costa vessels that Carnival Corporation, the parent company of Costa and Carnival, has transferred from Costa to Carnival in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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