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Carnival Cruise Lines took delivery of their newest and largest ship the 130,000 gross ton, 3,690 passenger (double occupancy) CARNIVAL BREEZE on May 30th.  Like most Carnival products, the ship was built at the Fincantieri Monfalcone discount rome hotel shipyard which itself celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.
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Carnival plans to expand their presence on the U.S. West coast by early 2014 when the CARNIVAL IMAGINATION joins her 2,052 passenger sister CARNIVAL INSPIRATION (ex INSPIRATION) on three and four day cruises to Mexico from the port of Long Beach.  CARNIVAL discount rome hotel SPLENDOR which will abandon Long Beach in February, 2013 will be replaced by the 88,500 gross ton CARNIVAL MIRACLE seasonally beginning in October.  Sister vessel, CARNIVAL discount rome hotel SPIRIT has taken up a permanent year-round position in Australia and onboard services and facilities have been adapted discount rome hotel to suit Aussie tastes.  This includes better coffee, more and different beer and no tipping.
On the other hand, if you love paying extra fees on airlines, then one of two programs in the testing phase from Carnival might be just the thing to get your cruise off to an expensive start.  "Faster To The Fun" offers guests a charge of $49.95 per stateroom discount rome hotel for early boarding, priority in making dinner reservations, and choice of tender discount rome hotel times and disembarkation.  If passenger response is sufficient, ancillary discount rome hotel fees will be rolled out throughout the fleet and no doubt across the entire cruise industry.  A second test program should prove more popular as it addresses the growing problem of passengers reserving deck chairs while they do other things, sometimes for hours on end.  Much like a parking meter, a sticker is placed on a deck chair and after forty minutes of non-use, passenger's belongings will be removed and held at the towel station to be reclaimed.  With ships so large and too many passengers aboard, finding a lounge discount rome hotel chair near the pool can become a frustrating, rather than relaxing experience.  The first cruise ship of over 100,000 discount rome hotel gross tons, CARNIVAL DESTINY has sailed its last year under that name.
Carnival has announced plans to heavily transform the 1996-built, 101,353 gross ton ship, into the CARNIVAL SUNSHINE in a refit scheduled to finish in April, 2013.  Passenger capacity will be increased by 364 guests to a lower berth total of 3,006.  Carnival is calling it "our most ambitious ship conversion project to date…"  The CARNIVAL DESTINY discount rome hotel was the final ship that company founder Ted Arison saw completed during his lifetime and the historic status of the vessel in breaking, what up until then was the 100,000 gross ton size barrier, will remain discount rome hotel even if the original discount rome hotel structural integrity of the ship, does not.
Carnival Japan, Inc. was formed in March and officially opened their Tokyo office on June 27th.  The new division will oversee the largest deployment ever by a global cruise line in the Japanese market with the launch of Princess Cruises homeport sailings, specially developed for Japanese travelers. The inaugural season begins aboard the  SUN PRINCESS in April 2013.  The office will handle sales and logistics for not only Princess Cruises but all Carnival brands in Japan.  If successful, it may develop in the same way Carnival Australia discount rome hotel has, utilizing the company's older tonnage.  This division is a small part of Carnival's greater expansion in Asia.
Shawn Dake is a freelance photo-journalist and regular contributor to MaritimeMatters.com. For more than a decade he has written his annual Cruise Ships, The Year In Review which has now grown to a nearly 15,000 word essay recalling all of the events that have taken place within the cruise industry the previous year.