How long is a ship typically in dry dock?

[Eli_6]

For example, the Pride...what would be a normal amount of time needed for her to be in dry dock for the updates she needs?  Anyone have any inside information on how long this sort of thing usually takes?  

[Megan_Strick]

I could be wrong but I think a couple of weeks to a month? I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

[maluhia87]

Pride is scheduled for dry dock: 4/26/23-5/27/23.  You can find this information on the goccl website. 

[1025cruise]

Depends on the work scheduled.

[bguppies]

If they're just refreshing paint or decor, etc. it would probably just be a couple of weeks.

 

If they're adding a new restaurant or changing a restaurant or bar venue that require a lot of gutting and rebuild it will be much longer.

 

I forget how long some of the major retools took. (Like the Destiny changing into the Sunshine or the Triumph into the Sunrise)

Edited December 13, 2022 by bguppies

[jsglow]

The Sunshining of ships took 2-3 months. If memory serves, Carnival 2.0 upgrades took a month plus. But there's zero indication that anything like Carnival 3.0 is in the works. I believe what you're going to see is an overall freshening of the ship, the hull paint job, and any behind the scenes mechanicals. Any new venue additions will be modest as Pride is a fully 2.0 level ship at this point. I would certainly not expect to see full cabin renovations as we have on the Sunshine Class.

 

My hope is that they eventually do $200M retrofits on all the Spirit ships. But that's not in the cards right now. Otherwise they would have started with Miracle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ontheweb]

I wonder if you can really go by past experience. Dry dock after covid now has to deal with labor shortages and parts stuck in the pipeline.

[ObstructedView2]

2 hours ago, Eli_6 said:

For example, the Pride...what would be a normal amount of time needed for her to be in dry dock for the updates she needs?  Anyone have any inside information on how long this sort of thing usually takes?  

 

Typical dry dock is 2 to 4 weeks.

 

In regards to Carnival Pride, the upcoming dry dock will be 4 weeks. See below. 

Carnival Pride Information located @:

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1537/~/carnival-pride-(pr)-fact-sheet

 

 

 

 

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[bguppies]

20 hours ago, ObstructedView2 said:

 

Typical dry dock is 2 to 4 weeks.

 

In regards to Carnival Pride, the upcoming dry dock will be 4 weeks. See below. 

Carnival Pride Information located @:

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1537/~/carnival-pride-(pr)-fact-sheet

 

 

 

 

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What do these six dates listed tell me about the Pride's drydock schedule?

(I just see six random sets of dates with no ship names.)

[jsglow]

6 minutes ago, bguppies said:

What do these six dates listed tell me about the Pride's drydock schedule?

(I just see six random sets of dates with no ship names.)

Those are Pride's dry dock dates through her history. 

[nascartim]

Do you think they will update the TV's to larger ones(if not already done, I cannot remember) or add USB ports in the rooms(also, if not already done)?

[ObstructedView2]

21 hours ago, ObstructedView2 said:

 

Typical dry dock is 2 to 4 weeks.

 

In regards to Carnival Pride, the upcoming dry dock will be 4 weeks. See below. 

 

Carnival Pride Information located @:

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1537/~/carnival-pride-(pr)-fact-sheet

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, bguppies said:

What do these six dates listed tell me about the Pride's drydock schedule?

(I just see six random sets of dates with no ship names.)

 

Those dates are Carnival Pride's past & CURRENT dry dock schedules. Re-read Everything I Wrote. Also Click On The Link & then read whats in the link. 

 

 

 

 

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Edited December 14, 2022 by ObstructedView2

[kwokpot]

1 hour ago, nascartim said:

Do you think they will update the TV's to larger ones(if not already done, I cannot remember) or add USB ports in the rooms(also, if not already done)?

Would love that but not a chance.

[ninjacat123]

I just checked the port schedules and Pride is only listed end of Oct for a TA.  Then I tried to do a mock booking.  Nothing available after dry dock.  My Cruise Manager still shows my Oct 13-28 Pride cruise out of Rome.  Does this happen after a drydock, schedule disappears and then comes back? TIA!

[Illbcruzn4life]

On 12/13/2022 at 12:21 PM, maluhia87 said:

Pride is scheduled for dry dock: 4/26/23-5/27/23.  You can find this information on the goccl website. 

How do you access this website? When I go there it says to sign in and you need to be a travel agent??

[maluhia87]

6 minutes ago, Illbcruzn4life said:

How do you access this website? When I go there it says to sign in and you need to be a travel agent??

I generally google "Carnival (Ship Name) goccl" and it pulls up the option to see the fact sheet. 

[ohioNCLcruiser]

Before covid a standard dry dock would be around 2 weeks. The Pride has a long dry dock but not a mega long dry dock. Based on this, and the bad condition the Pride is in, I would expect her to have most of her Joe Farcus décor removed. So many pieces of the décor are broken in half, missing or cracked without any spares to replace them. They would basically have to remove it. While I like the crazy designs he came up with, I find the Pride to be depressingly dark. Everything has poor lighting and sitting in the atrium feels like sitting in a dark basement to me. The ship's layout is my favorite. 

 

I'm hoping no lounge gets converted to more cabins. 

[kwokpot]

34 minutes ago, ohioNCLcruiser said:

Before covid a standard dry dock would be around 2 weeks. The Pride has a long dry dock but not a mega long dry dock. Based on this, and the bad condition the Pride is in, I would expect her to have most of her Joe Farcus décor removed. So many pieces of the décor are broken in half, missing or cracked without any spares to replace them. They would basically have to remove it. While I like the crazy designs he came up with, I find the Pride to be depressingly dark. Everything has poor lighting and sitting in the atrium feels like sitting in a dark basement to me. The ship's layout is my favorite. 

 

I'm hoping no lounge gets converted to more cabins. 

Spirit class ships have a great layout, but as you described it's the poor condition of the Pride that bothers me. 

[Eli_6]

16 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

Spirit class ships have a great layout, but as you described it's the poor condition of the Pride that bothers me. 

100 percent agree. Bedt layout,  worst condition of any carnival ship I have been on.

[mz-s]

4 hours ago, nascartim said:

Do you think they will update the TV's to larger ones(if not already done, I cannot remember) or add USB ports in the rooms(also, if not already done)?

 

Nope, they don't want you sitting in your room watching TV. They want you in the casino or drinking at the red frog etc.

[tidecat]

USB ports might be added depending on what other electrical work has to be done. Obviously with the sheer number of rooms on a cruise ship, it requires a fair amount of labor to be done in a reasonable time frame.

 

Most of the Funship 2.0 features were designed to be completed within a two week drydock. Obviously that was in a pre-Covid world.

 

Painting the hull can lengthen the drydock, as it obviously has to dry before the dock is flooded again, and can get in the way of other hull and propeller maintenance.

 

Where the drydock takes place will also be important; Grand Bahama Ship Yard in Freeport is a few hours from Florida; Cadiz, Spain, or Marseille, France not so much. It takes around a week to cross the Atlantic, and of course it has to be done twice.

[luv2trvlnow]

1 hour ago, tidecat said:

Where the drydock takes place will also be important; Grand Bahama Ship Yard in Freeport is a few hours from Florida; Cadiz, Spain, or Marseille, France not so much. It takes around a week to cross the Atlantic, and of course it has to be done twice.

The trip will not have to be done twice.  The Pride will be leaving the USA on a Transatlantic before going into dry dock.  After dry dock it will start it's European sailings.  So apparently the dry dock is taking place in Europe.

[Katastrophe512]

From reading the boards, I gather people are worried about the Pride disappearing from port schedules for the upcoming European season.  I am booked on the 10/18/23 sailing out of Civitavecchia so I am now concerned as well.  I went to the goccl link that ObstructedView2 posted and from there I saw that there is an Itineraries link that has PDF documents for each ship detailing their itineraries.  The European sailings are still showing on Pride's document and it says it was updated on 12/1 so I'm hoping it's current and accurate.  I'm not sure when she started disappearing from port schedules.

 

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2473

 

[ninjacat123]

8 minutes ago, kat.utsinger said:

From reading the boards, I gather people are worried about the Pride disappearing from port schedules for the upcoming European season.  I am booked on the 10/18/23 sailing out of Civitavecchia so I am now concerned as well.  I went to the goccl link that ObstructedView2 posted and from there I saw that there is an Itineraries link that has PDF documents for each ship detailing their itineraries.  The European sailings are still showing on Pride's document and it says it was updated on 12/1 so I'm hoping it's current and accurate.  I'm not sure when she started disappearing from port schedules.

 

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2473

 

DH and I are on your sailing as well!!  Thanks for posting this because I have been wondering about our cruise.  Where did you see it stated that it was updated 12/1?  Never mind, I went back a few steps and found it. Thanks!!

Edited December 19, 2022 by ninjacat123

[Eli_6]

20 hours ago, kat.utsinger said:

From reading the boards, I gather people are worried about the Pride disappearing from port schedules for the upcoming European season.  I am booked on the 10/18/23 sailing out of Civitavecchia so I am now concerned as well.  I went to the goccl link that ObstructedView2 posted and from there I saw that there is an Itineraries link that has PDF documents for each ship detailing their itineraries.  The European sailings are still showing on Pride's document and it says it was updated on 12/1 so I'm hoping it's current and accurate.  I'm not sure when she started disappearing from port schedules.

 

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2473

 

We weren't concerned about the entire season--just the first sailing.  The concern was that if they dry dock ran behind schedule, she wouldn't sail that first 12 day Barcelona to Dover scheduled for the end of May.  That sailing disappeared from the website a month or so ago and, in the past, when sailings have disappeared that far in advance it has often meant a cancellation was coming.  Carnival is saying that the sailing is sold out, but some of us find that a little difficult to believe given that there were plenty of rooms shortly before it disappeared.  Then, when we went to some third party websites, it didn't show up on the port schedule. However, apparently these third party sites base their schedule on the Carnival website so they don't really tell us anything.  I think only time will tell.