Inside the Carnival Ships That Made Cruising History

I stumbled on this article from USA Today while reading an article about Arnold Donald and thought y'all may enjoy. It's got a great 77 pic slideshow of Carnival's first three ships.

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/cruises/2014/09/15/cruise-ship-tour-the-early-icons-of-the-carnival-fleet/13892623/

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Thank you for sharing very cool we just need Kathy Lee in her Vegas outfit on stage :p

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I stumbled on this article from USA Today while reading an article about Arnold Donald and thought y'all may enjoy. It's got a great 77 pic slideshow of Carnival's first three ships.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/cruises/2014/09/15/cruise-ship-tour-the-early-icons-of-the-carnival-fleet/13892623/

 

 

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Thanks for that! Was on the Carnivale in 83!

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Thanks for that! Was on the Carnivale in 83!

 

 

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You're welcome. I wish I could say the same. I didn't start cruising until 2012.

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Thank you for sharing very cool we just need Kathy Lee in her Vegas outfit on stage :p

 

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very cool :) thank you for sharing

You're welcome. I wish I could say the same. I didn't start cruising until 2012.

 

 

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Well, she was a tub then. I was only 12 years old and still had a great time, though. She was nothing like the newer ships--in both good and bad ways. I remember when we were in St Thomas on that cruise, we were docked just behind RCCL's brand-new (at the time) Song of America. So many people were jealous that they weren't sailing her instead. Song of America looked HUGE next to the Carnivale, even though she was (only) 37,000 tons, but was the largest new ship built at the time.

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Cruise ships sure have come a long way!

Just adding my thanks with the others. That was really fascinating thank you so much for sharing.

Now I also understand why I don't see much wood on ships any longer it does make sense as it's a fire hazard but I boys could've missed it.

I guess a throwback to what we used to see on television the Titanic etc.

Thanks again, Lydia of Ohio

My 1st cruise was on the Festivale in the late 80's. What a wonderful time we had, 4 girls in an inside cabin that was probably 8 by 8 but we managed. I remember our total bar bill for the week was $600 and we were shocked~ probably would be 4 times that amount now. LOL. Great memories.

My first cruise was on the Holiday in 1989. I remember thinking how large it was. Cruising has definitely changed. Going on my 21st Carnival next week. Cheers :)

Sad how they met their demise. Thinking about some of the ships I have been on, and some day they will be scrap metal. Thanks for sharing

Thanks so much. I was on Mardi Gras in 1989. My very 1st cruise. It was great to see some pictures of her. Brought back a lot of memories.

Such great historical info. Thanks!

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I stumbled on this article from USA Today while reading an article about Arnold Donald and thought y'all may enjoy. It's got a great 77 pic slideshow of Carnival's first three ships.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/cruises/2014/09/15/cruise-ship-tour-the-early-icons-of-the-carnival-fleet/13892623/

 

 

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Will check this out, but still find it odd that the ONLY Carnival ship that actually made history was killed and morphed into another ship.

Thanks for sharing , that was really cool!

our third cruise was on the carnivale, back in the 80's:)

That was neat.

we were on the mardi gras in 87, inside cabin and the bathroom was bigger than the cabin.

Sailed on that ship twice! Great time!

Thank you for sharing! Very cool to see all the pictures.

Thank you for sharing the link OP! Even though I have never sailed on any of those ships, it was very interesting to see their history.

The Carnivale was our first cruise in 1993; the worst vacation experience ever. Glad we attempted another since we will be on our 45th cruise in April and it will be a Carnival cruise.

main 110 I think it was

I think my bathroom in my house was bigger than that cabin.

remember the "good ole days" actual keys to open the doors on the cabins? step over thresholds? you'd trip everytime you'd walk into a cabin...

and when you turned the lights out, there was ZERO ambient light! like living in a cavern:eek:

after that first carnival cruise ( we'd done two NCL at that time ) I didn't know when would ever try carnival again, but finally we did a 4 day cruise on the fascination and we've now been on 17 carnival cruises out of our 30 total....:)

Good find! Thanks. :)