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tidecat

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  1. I'm not sure Carnival can drop Mobile. Spirit needs somewhere to work during the winter, and the only way New Orleans could accommodate a third ship is to stagger it a week from the existing 4 & 5 day cruises, or have it do 7-day cruises during the winter, which would likely push the 4 & 5 day cruises to Monday/Friday/Wednesday cycle, at least for the winter. The lack of a 3-day itinerary option in New Orleans (and for that matter, Mobile and Galveston) really ties Carnival's hands here. I guess the relevant question is if the price difference between New Orleans sailings and other comparable sailings high enough to justify at least a 23% increase in capacity (i.e., Conquest class to Dream class)?
  2. Norfolk only has a handful of ships calling this summer. Royal Caribbean uses Bayonne (NJ), so any ships relocating there will have to juggle around what is scheduled. New York has multiple piers, but multiple cruise lines call there. Norfolk had the greatest availability and ships out of Baltimore basically have to pass it anyway.
  3. Agreement extended to 2026 with options to extend to 2030: https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2024/03/jaxport-and-carnival-cruise-line-extend-cruise-service-agreement/ This probably also means the Fantasy class will be around until 2030 if not beyond. Elation is scheduled for a drydock in January 2026, and presumably would follow up in 2029. Elation will be 32 years old in 2030. Carnival Paradise (Tampa) has no 2026 drydock date yet, but had her 2023 visit about nine months after Elation.
  4. The main issue is that Mardi Gras to New Orleans would be an 80% increase in capacity for either 4-5 day or 7 day cruises. If the New Orleans market was that underserved, Carnival would have already done something about it. LNG supply also be an issue, especially with the optics of having LNG in a densely populated area.
  5. 2027: Excel 4 to Port Canaveral Freedom from Port Canaveral to Mobile Spirit from Seattle (summer)/Mobile (winter) to Seattle/Norfolk (winter 2027-28 only) Mardi Gras stays in Port Canaveral, takes short cruises from Glory; Glory assumes Freedom's 4-5 day program Sunshine retired 2028: Excel 5 to Miami Celebration stays in Miami, takes short cruise program from Conquest Conquest from Miami to Norfolk Spirit from Seattle/Norfolk to Seattle/New York (New York gets year round service) Capacity changes (lower berths) in summary: Port Canaveral: Long cruises +0, short cruises +2302 Miami: Long cruises +0, Short cruises +2394 Mobile: +2980 (summer)/+856 (winter) New York: +0 (summer)/+2124 (winter) Norfolk: -22 (temporary decrease of -878 for winter 2027-28)
  6. The most important part is a place to physically berth the ship. A renovated terminal will no doubt make for a more comfortable experience, but as long as there is physically a place to load and unload the ship, process people through customs, the terminal is just an accessory. Spending on the nature of the renovations, the embarkation and debarkation processes may evolve from sailing to sailing.
  7. Is it the port itself or just the terminal? Princess is supposed to call at Norfolk on June.
  8. I'd say there's a decent chance of Holiday and Festivale being used. I'd even throw Tropicale into the mix as well. I doubt Carnivale ever gets used again.
  9. Lots of school systems have breaks during President's Day Week. Some years that also overlaps with the Mardi Gras holidays, which affects places like Mobile and New Orleans.
  10. Cruise ships carry a supply of spare carpet. It's most likely already been replaced.
  11. Per Carnival Corporation's Q4 financial statements, average onboard revenue per passenger cruise day (PCD) for fiscal year 2023 was approximately $82.34 ($7.526 billion / 91.4 million PCD).
  12. FWIW, sister line Holland America does take into account onboard spend: https://www.hollandamerica.com/en/us/plan-a-cruise/get-ready-for-your-cruise/mariner-society So in the case of HAL, someone who drops $15,000 in the casino would get 50 credits. There's also nothing that would prevent casino spending from being excluded if Carnival wanted to adopt something similar.
  13. I did Teppenyaki on the Horizon in 2022, it was a higher table. I would recommend contacting Special Needs, surely there would be a way to accommodate a wheelchair
  14. Just about every ship in the fleet has had multiple home ports. Only Horizon, Panorama, Mardi Gras, Celebration, and Jubilee are on their first deployments. You could theoretically add Radiance to the list if you ignore her career as Victory as she never entered service in Galveston before being deployed to Long Beach. The Fantasy class (Elation, Paradise) and the original four from the Spirit class (Spirit, Miracle, Pride, Legend) are probably the most well traveled. Spirit and Legend in particular have spent time in Australia. Sunshine "debuted" in New Orleans before eventually making it to Port Canaveral, Charleston, and soon to be Norfolk. Her real debit was as the Destiny out of Miami.
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