Newbuild Switched From P&O Cruises Australia To Carnival
Press release from Carnival PR: A new 133,500-ton cruise ship, which will be the third vessel in the company’s Vista class series, will join the Carnival Cruise Line fleet in late 2019. The ship, under contract with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, was originally designated for the P&O Cruises Australia brand. In conjunction with this change, Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Splendor will be transferred to P&O Cruises Australia in late 2019.
The ship will offer many of Carnival’s most popular guest features, a wide range of accommodation types and a number of new innovations unique to this vessel. The ship’s name, homeport and itinerary details will be announced at a later date.
“We are truly thrilled to have another Vista class ship joining our fleet,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “Carnival Vista, which was named the best new ship of 2016 in the Cruise Critic Editors Picks awards, has proven to be the most innovative and popular ship we’ve ever introduced. Consumer, travel agent and media reaction to the Vista class design has been extraordinary and we are elated to have two additional ships in this spectacular series now joining our fleet – Carnival Horizon, which is scheduled to be delivered in March 2018, and now a third in 2019.”
Duffy added that the introduction of these ships to the Carnival fleet provides the opportunity to offer the Vista class experience from a variety of homeports in addition to creating exciting new itinerary options across the balance of the Carnival Cruise Line fleet as this additional capacity is integrated into the deployment mix.
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Well I wasn’t expecting that.
I also didn’t know that Carnival Vista and sisters are also named Vista class. That’s confusing for two different ship classes.
Maybe Carnival doesn’t really know what to do with Carnival Splendor, after all, when first ordered she was intended for Costa Line. I wonder how Australian cruise passengers will feel. Instead of getting a brand new ship, once again they get a cast-off vessel.
Not very happy downunder.
Agree not happy downunder. We just have learnt t
o put up with the cast offs. Still it has been said we are a laid back country prepared to put up with what we get. Perhaps just perhaps Norwegian Cruise Lines might
and it is a big might give Carnival a run for the money but ofcourse P & O will always be in the picture because they since to 1880’s bringing people to our country helped
make it into the great place it is today and be it with secondhand ships or not I will continue to support them.
P&O Australia would NEVER be able to fill the new ship they’d ordered thats why they flogged it. P&O Australia seem to prefer the old cast-offs and lately cast-off rust buckets (Eden and Aria). They’ve aimed their market at first time cruises and families with limited budgets and their on-board credits are almost the same as the fares they charge. No way would they be able to afford a new ship running a business like that. I’ve given them the flick for now and thank goodness for P&O UK and pretty much every other cruise company who are maintaining the cruising tradition.
isnt the Carnival Splendor the one that had a fire in the engine room?
What a joke, That new ship was never coming here and who in their right mind would allow P&O Aust to run it…
Dream on