Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Celebration has been voted the Best New Cruise Ship of 2022 in Cruise Hive’s annual Cruise Ship Awards. The 5,374-guest ship was in competitors with 9 different new vessels that debuted in the course of the 12 months.
Carnival Celebration Is Best New Cruise Ship
Expectations had been excessive for Carnival Celebration, the cruise line’s second Excel-class vessel after Mardi Gras, since it was voted Most Anticipated New Cruise Ship of 2022 in Cruise Hive’s Cruise Ship Awards.
Carnival Celebration acquired 34% of the votes for Best New Cruise Ship of 2022, coming in forward of second-place Wonder of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean ship that garnered 26% of the votes, and Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Prima, which acquired 14% of the votes.
Other ships that competed for the Best New Cruise Ship of 2022 award had been P&O Cruises’ Arvia, Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Beyond, Princess Cruises’ Discovery Princess, Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Wish, Viking Cruises’ Viking Mars, and MSC Cruises’ MSC Seascape and MSC World Europa. Readers might solely forged a single vote in every class.
Carnival Celebration is the largest ship within the Carnival Cruise Line fleet, with a gross tonnage of 183,521, 19 decks, and a couple of,600 staterooms. The ship was constructed by Meyer Turku in Finland at the price of $1 billion.
Voting for the 2022 awards opened up in September, with readers having the ability to make forged a single vote in every of the eight classes. Any suspicious or repeated votes weren’t included within the closing end result. The awards have been operating since 2014 and, annually, are open for Cruise Hive readers.
Carnival Celebration Sails the Caribbean From PortMiami
Carnival Cruise Line took supply of Carnival Celebration on the shipyard on November 2, 2022, and she or he then turned the primary new Carnival ship to reach within the UK in 20 years, crusing her inaugural cruise from Southampton, England, on November 6, 2022. The maiden voyage included port calls in La Coruña and Vigo, Spain; Funchal (Maderia), Portugal; and Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain.
The ship arrived in Miami on November 20, following her transatlantic cruise from England. Sailing from Terminal F at PortMiami, the ship is working a winter collection of Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises.
Carnival Celebration options 13 bar/lounges and eight specialty eating places: Bonsai Sushi, Bonsai Teppanyaki, Cucina del Capitano, Emeril’s Bistro 1396, JavaBlue Cafe, Rudi’s Seagrill, The Seafood Shack, and Fahrenheit 555 Steakhouse.
Carnival Celebration’s sights embody BOLT: Ultimate Sea Coaster, which was voted the Best Cruise Ship Feature within the Cruise Ship Awards. The curler coaster, positioned within the Ultimate Playground portion of the ship, lets visitors soar 187 toes above the ocean and reaches speeds of 40 MPH. BOLT beat out second-place winner Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate Abyss and third-place winner Norwegian Cruise Line’s Go-Karts within the 2022 award class.
Carnival Celebration’s Ultimate playground space is also house to the ship’s water park, mini golf programs, sports activities programs like a basketball court docket, and a ropes course.
Carnival Cruise Line’s third Excel-class ship, Carnival Jubilee, is below development on the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. It is scheduled to debut in late 2023 and be home-ported in Galveston, Texas.