Is Carnival Paradise retired?

Carnival Cruise Line has already announced the retirement of Carnival Ecstasy, which will end her days with the cruise line in October 2022. After that, only the youngest two Fantasy class vessels – Carnival Elation and Carnival Paradise – will remain with the line. Both of those ships debuted in 1998.



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Unlike its sister ships, the Carnival Ecstasy left the Carnival fleet after resuming revenue service in early 2022. Following a farewell season out of Mobile, the 1991-built ship completed its last cruise for the brand last October, being retired soon after.

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Carnival is one world's largest cruise lines, but since it has existed, only one of its vessels has ever sunk, the Costa Concordia in 2012. Although Costa is an Italian cruise ship company, it is owned by Carnival Corporation.

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Due to the global pandemic, Carnival Cruise Line has been offloading its older Fantasy-class vessels. Carnival Ecstasy was the final ship to leave the fleet in October 2022. Currently, the 1998-built Carnival Elation is the oldest ship in the fleet.

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Despite Carnival Paradise's size (855 feet), it's not hard to learn – or at least guess with a high chance of success – where things are onboard. Cabins take up decks 4 (Riviera), 5 (Main), 6 (Upper), and 7 (Empress), plus compact sections on decks 11 (Verandah) and 14 (Grand).

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The sinking of the Costa Concordia: 10 years later The Italian cruise ship ran aground off the tiny Italian island of Giglio after striking an underground rock and capsizing.

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In terms of gross tonnage – the measurement of the total internal volume of a cruise ship – all Carnival ships are bigger than the Titanic. However, the Titanic was longer than two Carnival ships, and had a higher passenger capacity than seven of the ships in the Carnival fleet.

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The Unfateful RMS Titanic The most infamous cruise ship accident has to be the RMS Titanic. The Olympic-Class Ocean liner was owned by White Star Line and built in Northern Ireland. It was the largest passenger ship of its time, designed by Thomas Andrews, capable of carrying over 3000 people.

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Both companies are market leaders in terms of fleet sizes. That said, Royal Caribbean has more ships and they're often larger, which means additional dining, activities and lodging options for passengers.

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The largest suite in the Carnival Cruise Line fleet is the Excel Presidential Suite, which first debuted on Carnival's Mardi Gras in 2021 and continues with the line's newest ships, Carnival Celebration (2022) and Carnival Jubilee (2023).

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