Carnival Holiday Lives On!

[BlerkOne]

Recently sold at auction for $3,431,000. A bargain.

 

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/23829-here-s-what-an-entire-cruise-fleet-sold-for-at-auction.html

 

 

[joeyancho]

I took my first cruise on her in 1996.  She was old then.  I was hooked. 

[xDisconnections]

Why can’t it live on at Aliaga?

[shof515]

10 hours ago, xDisconnections said:

Why can’t it live on at Aliaga?

maybe they have too many ships right now

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35 minutes ago, shof515 said:

maybe they have too many ships right now

They can make future arrangements.

[BlerkOne]

1 hour ago, shof515 said:

maybe they have too many ships right now

Reserving space for Royal rust buckets.

[DANCING GRANDMOMMY]

My first and favorite. Sailed on her 3 or 4 times. 

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14 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

Reserving space for Royal rust buckets.

Hopefully. They need to go as well.

[SummerXU]

Also my first, back in 2007. Love to see that she's still around.

[evandbob]

On 11/8/2020 at 10:13 PM, joeyancho said:

I took my first cruise on her in 1996.  She was old then.  I was hooked. 

 

I sailed the Holiday back in the 2000's, it was old then, and I refused to book it again.

 

BTW, I stopped saying "she was old" when I was a kid, used to get hit for remarks like that and I learned my lesson -females only get better, never old.  Ships are another story..  

[joepeka]

On 11/8/2020 at 8:13 PM, joeyancho said:

I took my first cruise on her in 1996.  She was old then.  I was hooked. 

Us too, on all three of your counts! 👍

[mistycruiser]

I took my maiden cruise on the Holiday the year she was launched in 1985.  That's what got me hooked on cruising.

[toad455]

Seajets, a Greek cruise line, has acquired 6 cruise ships recently. The once Holiday(most recently CMV's Magellan), plus HAL's Veendam & Maasdam, P&O's Pacific Aria & Oceana and CMV's Columbus. Seajets previously only operated Ferry services throughout Greece & Cyprus.

[N7786W Flyer]

2 hours ago, toad455 said:

Seajets, a Greek cruise line, has acquired 6 cruise ships recently. The once Holiday(most recently CMV's Magellan), plus HAL's Veendam & Maasdam, P&O's Pacific Aria & Oceana and CMV's Columbus. Seajets previously only operated Ferry services throughout Greece & Cyprus.

 

Speculation is that their owner has bought the ships as purely an investment (and not necessarily to operate them) and intends to resell them to new owners at a profit once the COVID pandemic passes and the value of the ships increase.

 

Garnett

[roeco9084]

On 11/12/2020 at 9:26 AM, N7786W Flyer said:

 

Speculation is that their owner has bought the ships as purely an investment (and not necessarily to operate them) and intends to resell them to new owners at a profit once the COVID pandemic passes and the value of the ships increase.

 

Garnett

I would suspect Seajets may Charter them too.

[St.Pete]

Only ship I never made it to for a blizzard.

Carnival was kind enough to offer us a replacement cruise on the "new" Ecstasy, with an upgrade.

[quattrohead]

MS Holiday/ MS Magellan has had her name changed to Mages.
Likely on the way to be scrapped as she has a hole in the bottom.

[pinklucky61]

my 2nd cruise was on her, inside cabin, apparently right next to anchor. lol, but slept great anyway.

[tidecat]

Cruise Industry News reports she has been sold for scrap:

 

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/24214-was-the-magellan-sold-for-scrap.html