Carnival Cruise Line Ships classes/sizes/age comparison

List of Carnival Cruise Lines ships - the Carnival cruise Fun Ships names, sizes comparison, details (specs & stats). If you're interested in how big is a Carnival cruise ship, in this survey you'll find detailed specifications and statistics of all Carnival cruise ships - year built, cost to build, weight, dimensions (length/width), capacity, speed, registry/flags, IMO numbers.

Carnival Fun Ships

All Carnival ships names have the prefix "Carnival", they are also referred to as "Carnival Fun Ships", and there's a very big reason for all that. The first Carnival ship (though a second hand vessel) was quickly renamed "Mardi Gras" - there you have another big reason.

Why all Carnival cruise ships bear the name "Carnival"? If you try to define Carnival at Wikipedia, you'll find words like festive, holiday, celebration, parade, party, fun, and the season and reason for this special human festivity is the time of new beginning - when Winter meets Spring. And all this tells you exactly what? We're living in a glorious time made of free choices by free-minded individuals seeking the limits of their imagination, special life experiences and the endless opportunities to incorporate in life their talents, interests, ideas, dreams, all that's sacred and special to them.All connected, almost as one. This is the best time to be - right in the middle between the empty-shell morals of the distant past, the absurdity of the recent past, the free now, the near future of reason and the magical distant future times. This is the time when Carnival happens - for a reason. Because this is the time for you to be Fun!

Carnival cruise lines ships are feature corporate products of the ever growing cruise ship travel industry, generating huge profits simply by making their customers happy. The Carnival Cruises ships are the best symbol of the current humanity - people making money to spend money, people spending money to have fun. All pertaining to the Carnival Lines ships has the aura of happiness and fun by high-energy "cool" activities, top-notch entertainment (both as venues and programs), using the latest innovations and technologies, unique facilities, offering spacious cruise accommodations and public areas, comfort and good vibrations provided by a professional and most amicable staff and crew of young people trying their best to turn your Carnival voyages into memories worthy of being kept forever. And all that works - once a Carnival fan, always a fun fan!

I won't be sugarcoating the Carnival Lines and their ships anymore, simply because all of you interested in the subject know the truth better - as a first hand experience, as a real deal. CCL is the cruise line that sells "Carnival deals" - on a real all-year-round Carnival at Sea!

Carnival cruise ships - the "Fun Ships" video

Soon all Carnival ships names will be linked each to its own review article about life on board and fun facts. Until then, for more "real time" information - check the ship-links from the table below for a detailed review of the ship's current itinerary and schedule (sailing calendar, all departure dates with indicative prices). And before the list of all Carnival cruise ships names, here's a group of related to the Fun Ships articles:

• the closely integrated Carnival Cruise Ship (a future hub article about all the rest, including cabins, dining and entertainment, prices, ships reviews, etc.)
• Carnival Cruise Ships Jobs (about what is like to be working on Carnival ships, and real job opportunities).
• Carnival Cruise News (latest updates, itinerary changes, incidents/accidents, with additional links).
• Carnival cruise ships schedules (sailing calendar with all departure dates) and Carnival cruise ships itineraries (destinations, itinerary changes, departure ports).
• the following two links are to: the official CCL website and the Carnival's Funville forum - the best fun cruise place on the Web!

old/former Carnival ships

(the old Carnival cruise ships, in brackets - the years they sailed for Carnival)

• MARDI GRAS (1972-1993), the first Carnival cruise ship ever, an ocean liner built in 1961 as "Empress of Canada", scrapped 2003, weight 27,300, passengers 1,240, former names Olympic, Star of Texas, Lucky Star, Apollo, Apollon.
• CARNIVALE (1975-1994), an ocean liner built in 1956 as "Empress of Britain", scrapped 2008, weight 25,500, passengers 1,124, former names Queen Anna Maria, Fiesta Marina, The Topaz.
• FESTIVALE (1977-1996), an ocean liner built in 1962 as "Transvaal Castle", scrapped 2003, weight 32,700, passengers 726, former names SA Vaal, Island Breeze, Big Red Boat III.
• ms TROPICALE (1982-2001), built 1982, tonnage 36,700 GT, the first newly built Carnival ship. Names after its Carnival service - Costa Tropicale, ms Pacific Star, and since 2008 - ms Ocean Dream.
• ms JUBILEE (1986-2004), built 1986, weight 47,300 GT, passengers 1,490 (max 1,900), sold to P&O Australia in 2004 to become ms Pacific Sun, sold in 2012 to a small Chinese operator to become a gambling ship.
• ms CELEBRATION (1987-2008, now ms Grand Celebration), built in Sweden, weight 47,300, passengers 1,490 (max 1,900), transferred to the Carnival's Spanish brand iberoCruceros.
• ms HOLIDAY (1985-2009, now ms Grand Holiday), built in Denmark, weight 46,000, passengers 1,450 (max 1,800), transferred to iberoCruceros.

Carnival Cruise Lines ships comparison

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