Carnival Cruise Line’s latest ‘Italian Style’ ship Carnival Firenze has formally been christened at its new homeport in Lengthy Seaside, California.
Hollywood actor Jonathan Bennett served as godfather, as he and Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy celebrated all issues Italian with the assistance of a Broadway star, a Puccini aria, and a Catholic priest making a working leap onto the stage to ship a blessing.
The 5,000-guest vessel is now crusing year-round from the Port of Lengthy Seaside, including vital capability for Carnival from the port and becoming a member of two Carnival ships additionally crusing there year-round: the 5,100-passenger Carnival Panorama and the practically 4,000-passenger Carnival Radiance.
Launching simply forward of the busy summer season season, Carnival Firenze is a part of a big growth that added 5 ships to the Carnival fleet prior to now 18 months. By subsequent yr, Carnival will embark over 750,000 visitors from Lengthy Seaside on over 200 sailings, a rise of 100,000 extra visitors in comparison with 2019.
Bennett was made an honorary Italian through the fun-filled night, which included a efficiency of Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” by Carnival’s Playlist Productions forged, an Italian blessing by Father Charbel Grbavac of the Mary Star of the Sea Catholic church in close by San Pedro, and was capped off by a show-stopping efficiency by Leslie Kritzer, Bennett’s co-star from the current Broadway revival of “Spamalot.”
Like sister ship Carnival Venezia, Firenze options new ideas and experiences that put an Italian Fashion twist on Carnival staples for visitors to take pleasure in. Firenze, nevertheless, is the primary ship within the fleet to usher in new expertise and harness AI that creates guides for energy-saving routes on every crusing. The ship’s captain and officers would be the first to make the most of this replace to Carnival’s voyage effectivity system forward of a fleetwide rollout anticipated to start later this yr.
Carnival Firenze can also be the newest Carnival vessel to make the most of shore energy and joins Carnival Panorama and Radiance in connecting to the electrical grid whereas docked in Lengthy Seaside.
Firenze was inbuilt 2020 as Costa Firenze for Carnival’s sister model Costa Cruises. It simply completed a 49-day dry dock in Cadiz, Spain that built-in Carnival’s signature venues and facilities into the ship’s current design. Notable additions to the ship embody the specialty restaurant Il Viaggio (Italian for ‘The Voyage’) and a top-deck Italian-themed “street party.”
The ship will function a wide range of itinerary lengths, with three to seven-day Baja Mexico and Mexican Riviera cruises open on the market now by means of spring 2026. This afternoon, the ship units sail on a seven-day cruise to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Cabo San Lucas.
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