Carnival Back In The Med, and Back With A Brand New Ship

Carnival Cruise Line is back in the Mediterranean, and back with a brand new ship called Carnival Vista.

Dubbed the most colorful ship at sea, looking at these pictures I can see why.

New itineraries for summer 2016 on Carnival Vista include Athens, Barcelona, Dubrovnik, Izmir, Corfu, Livorno, Marseille, Messina (Sicily), Naples, Rome, Trieste and Valletta, Malta.

She will have its first European sailing on 1st May, and will then have 18 sailings in Europe before moving on to New York in October. The official home-port has yet to be revealed.

Carnival Vista will have the first IMAX cinema at sea.

As well as new dining options, more alfresco dining and the biggest Waterworks of any Carnival ship. The ship will also have a new Havana pool at the back of the ship, with Havana cabana staterooms available to book.

Mark Tamis, senior vice president of guest operations, said: “I really feel and we do that this is the greatest ship to date and certainly the best ship to come from Carnival Cruise Line.

“This is about building on past success. This is built of the success of Carnival Breeze and what is rolling out across the whole Carnival fleet.

When the line announced it was pulling away from Europe in last year, the company said it didn’t believe Americans, who make up the vast majority of its passengers, would pay increased airfares to cross the Atlantic.

In May last year, agents were praised for switch-selling customers to book a Caribbean cruise with Carnival rather than a European one.

During a VIP agent trip on Carnival Breeze last year, Lynn Torrent, executive vice-president of sales and guest services, said the line’s bosses were watching the moves being made by other international brands. She said Carnival was sitting back and seeing what other lines were doing in the UK market before making a decision.

This decision to launch a brand new ship out of Europe has to one of the best decisions Carnival has made. The Cruise industry, not only in the UK but Worldwide, has grown massively over the past few years. Cruising has become more affordable and as we have seen this year with the launch of Anthem of the Seas and P&O’s Britannia,  it will sell out quickly.

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