After a 12 months and a half of providing Italian type cruises out of New York, Carnival Venezia has been repositioned to Port Canaveral, Florida.
The 4,208-passenger ship arrived on Wednesday and might be providing seasonal sailings out of the Florida cruise port by Might 2025.
Carnival Venezia’s arrival makes it the fifth Carnival Cruise Line ship to at present homeport in Port Canaveral. The opposite 4 ships embody Carnival Vista, Carnival Glory, Carnival Freedom, and Mardi Gras.
The cruise line is the primary to supply 5 ships at one trip of the port.
Port Canaveral CEO Capt. John Murray welcomed the ship to the Area Coast port, emphasizing the port’s lengthy partnership with Carnival.
“Our new fiscal 12 months is taking off in grand type with the arrival of Carnival Venezia, which represents the 16th cruise ship to residence port at Port Canaveral – essentially the most in our historical past. We’ve have had a protracted and profitable partnership with Carnival Cruise Line for almost 35 years. We’re very pleased with our collective progress and thrilled to play a task of their persevering with success with Carnival Venezia added to our unimaginable lineup of homeported ships,” Murray said.
Dubbed as a “Carnival Enjoyable Italian Fashion” cruise ship, Venezia is Venice-themed and initially debuted with sister model Costa Cruises.
In June 2022, Carnival introduced that each Costa Venezia and Costa Firenze could be transferred to the cruise line’s fleet. Each vessels at the moment are Vista-class cruise ships and are the biggest within the class with about 135,000 of gross tons in quantity.
Carnival Venezia is at present on 4-day crusing to the Bahamas for its first voyage out of Port Canaveral. From now till Might 2025, Venezia might be crusing 7-day and 14-day cruises to the Japanese, Western, and Southern Caribbean.
On Might 11, 2025, the ship will reposition again to New York on an 11-day one-way crusing.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, commented on the arrival of Carnival Venezia:
“Our Venice-themed ship provides one other really dynamic providing, with a recent Italian twist on our signature Carnival enjoyable plus the identical pleasant service our company love and additional enriches the number of handy choices out there to our loyal company cruising from Orlando.”
Duffy additionally famous, “Our company who sailed with Carnival Venezia from New York love the ship and its new experiences, and we all know that she’s going to add much more worth to the Carnival providing in her new winter residence at Port Canaveral.“
