There is a news item out today of a brand new set of shiny propellers brought to the Fincantieri shipyard near Trieste, Italy, in which the newest Carnival ship is being built but nearing completion.
The 30-foot propellers were airlifted from the "spare parts" department Carnival maintains in Freeport, Bahamas, where lots of of its ships are registered. That is certainly right, they were sent by air within an Antonov 124-100, said to be the world's largest "serially" manufactured cargo plane on the globe. It is built in the Ukraine and known as "Condor" by NATO.
The two props are each over 21 feet across and made of bronze, zinc anodes and aluminum. It took ten days to organize the delivery - receiving the plane to Freeport, loading the props and after that flying them to Italy. Frankly, sending them by cargo ship might have been almost as fast and probably a whole lot less expensive.
But when you are constructing a cruise ship every day of construction can certainly cost $1-million. Breeze is going to be the most important and most active cruise ship designed for Carnival yet, as a sister ship towards the Carnival Dream and the Carnival Magic. She'll come in at 130,000-gross tons, equal in proportions to the Celebrity Solstice (2850 passenger berths) but Breeze will carry 3690 berths (and contains room for plenty the best way to as thirds and fourths in cabins).
Breeze is going to be one of the first ships to be built fully inside the brand new FunShip 2.0 specs for entertainment and cuisine onboard Carnival ships, a fresh fleet-wide upgrade directive scheduled to reveal to all of the large Carnival ships over the following few years. FunShip 2.0 includes:
Guy's Burger Joint: Directed by the Food Network's show host Guy Fieri, noted for his expertise in burgers and also other fast food of quality. He may be a gourmet, but his name will not rhyme with "Lee." It's "Guy" having a "y" as in "just a regular Guy." The brand new Guy's Burger Joint will likely be situated poolside and serve up hot burgers, hand-cut fries, and all the burger trimmings.
The Punchliner Comedy Club: A comedy club concept for the line that will be directed by television personality George Lopez who will help to pick the talent to appear on each ship. There'll be two comedians on each ship each performing nightly then one also doing a late-night "adults only" show.
Other new entertainment options include dancing to music inspired with the famous Miami-based D.J. Irie who'll recruit and train every one of the D.J.s slated to spin on all FunShip 2.0 ships down the road. Just so you know "Irie" is a common Caribbean (mostly Jamaican) dialect word for "all right," like "is evert'ing irie, Mon?"
New stage entertainment will include short 30-minute production shows that will run frequently throughout the cruise, rather than having hour-long productions just to be shown one time per dinner seating (twice per night) as was common on all luxury cruise ships in the past. Those shows will probably be interspersed with family game shows onstage inspired by Hasbro including new game concepts created only for Carnival like CONNECT 4, YAHTZEE, SORRY and SIMON. You've played these games, but never onstage while using chance to win great prizes! Besides, the modern Carnival versions are actually amalgams from the original games re-worked for the stage. By way of example, the Yahtzee game includes basketballs. (No, we don't get it yet, either, but it is just a game anyway).
One great aspect of the Dream-class of ships could be the new Ocean Plaza located on the promenade deck with plenty of indoor space dedicated to drinking, dining and dancing, and also with outdoor areas about the promenade deck with seating and even cantilevered hot tubs - an idea that has been first put in service about the Carnival Dream - long before Norwegian announced the new "Waterfront" area for your upcoming Norwegian Breakaway ships.
Great Deals on Breeze in Europe
If you have never sailed on an European cruise, however are a Carnival fan, I can't think of any better offer rather than join our CruiseMates Cruise on Carnival Breeze. What really sets this group cruise in addition to any other is the absolutely fabulous itinerary at an unbelievable price.
First of all - the ship is sailing roundtrip Barcelona, Spain; making air connections from the ship relatively painless. Next, the fun begins June 26, 2012 with complimentary overnight pre-cruise remain in Barcelona, included in the cruise fare.
From Barcelona the audience will sail to Marseilles, France, then on to Livorno, Italy - for Florence, Pisa, or even a day trip through the Tuscan region; after that the ship will visit Civitavecchia (Rome), but on this itinerary the ship will in fact stay docked overnight, making it possible to overnight inside city of Rome, to have two full days to see all there is to see in Rome (a technique I highly recommend).
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After Rome the group gets to visit one of the great finds of the region, Dubrovnik, Croatia, before we sail to Venice, Italy, where once again the audience will get to enjoy a rare overnight stay, for enough time for a real exploration of this magical city. Finally we sail for Messina, Italy (Sicily) where the selection of tours is almost endless.
This group has hosted by top of the heap, CruiseMates Community Leader and many types of round incredible guy, Mike Mastellar, and his lovely wife Betty. We couldn't have chosen better hosts for this European jaunt. Mike and Betty is going to be arranging some optional private tours, in addition to CruiseMates group activities onboard. The participants from CruiseMates are likely to absolutely love cruising with them, and make use of their knowledge of the areas on the itinerary.
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For all travelers who want to discover interesting places in Croatia, then Dubrovnik is the foremost destination.
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