{"id":18288,"date":"2013-07-23T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18288"},"modified":"2013-07-23T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T08:00:04","slug":"tuesday-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18288","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Latest: What's In A Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give Carnival at least a "B" for imagination in announcing that its newest ship, due in 2016, will be called Vista. That makes <\/span>Carnival<\/a> first to the Vista well of names.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an age when cruise lines sometimes appear to be running out of names. Witness Norwegian<\/a>, using contests to ask passengers for proposing names of its lasttwo (and probably next three) ships. Witness the Carnival Dream<\/a>, Disney Dream<\/a>, Pacific Dream<\/a> and SeaDream<\/a>, not to mention Carnival Liberty<\/a> and Liberty of the Seas<\/a>…and Norwegian Sun<\/a> and Sun Princess<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copycatting is acceptable.<\/p>\n

Vista is new…more or less. Avalon<\/a> has a river cruiser called Vista. Holland America<\/a> \"\"<\/a>has a Vista Class<\/i> of ships but "dam" the word in this fleet because all the names end in "…dam" (Rotterdam<\/a>, Westerdam<\/a>, Zuiderdam<\/a>, etc.).<\/p>\n

Vistadam just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?<\/p>\n

So Carnival comes up with the Vista, and that might be the extent of imagination with this 4,000-passenger newbie. Since it's the only ship Carnival has on order for the next three years, a Vista Class<\/i> of ships is unlikely, at least for now, because apparently Carnival officials sounded confused when asked about which class of ship this would be. Other than the name, the best the cruise line could do in the Imagination Department was explain the name this way:<\/p>\n

"We're starting to use the ship names as a touchstone for how we think about the design. A lot of what we are thinking about for the design and the inspiration is the views out to the ocean."<\/p>\n

Views…as in vista.<\/p>\n

The new ship will be like the Carnival Breeze<\/a>, but different from the Breeze (above), and nobody at Carnival is saying what those similarities and differences might be. That's for another day.<\/p>\n

And another press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Carnival Freedom<\/a>
\n\t6 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 29, 2013<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Key West<\/a>, <\/span>Grand Cayman<\/a>, <\/span>Ocho Rios<\/a>
\n\tInside: $294<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $49<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Give Carnival at least a "B" for imagination in announcing that its newest ship, due in 2016, will be called Vista. That makes Carnival first to the Vista well of names. This is an age when cruise lines sometimes appear to be running out of names. Witness Norwegian, using contests to ask passengers for proposing… Continue reading Carnival Latest: What's In A Name?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[149,137,154,782,50,965,738,1303,912,72,86,35,28,48,23,825,835,831,151,126,367,1304,957,908,33,213,877],"class_list":["post-18288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-avalon-cruises","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-breeze","tag-carnival-dream","tag-carnival-freedom","tag-carnival-liberty","tag-carnival-vista","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-disney","tag-disney-dream","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-westerdam","tag-holland-america-zuiderdam","tag-liberty-of-the-seas","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-pacific-dream","tag-princess-cruises","tag-rotterdam","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-seadream-yachts","tag-sun-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}