{"id":26660,"date":"2016-01-07T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26660"},"modified":"2016-01-07T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T09:00:11","slug":"thursday-157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26660","title":{"rendered":"New ship No. 4 \u2014 Carnival Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Fourth in a series of new ships for 2016<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ship-Vista.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26674\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ship-Vista.jpg\" alt=\"Ship-Vista\" width=\"575\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/\">Carnival<\/a> hasn\u2019t had a new ship in either three years or four, depending on whether you consider the re-building and name change of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cruise-ships\/new-carnival-sunshine.aspx\">Sunshine<\/a> a new ship. When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cruise-ships\/carnival-vista.aspx\">Vista<\/a> comes along this spring, it will launch a new class of the same name and it will give Carnival its biggest ship with almost 4,000 passengers\u2026and obviously a more modern ship than the last totally new one, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_breeze\/default.aspx?shipCode=BR\">Breeze<\/a> in 2012.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Launch date:<\/b> May 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Capacity:<\/b> 3,954<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Sister ships:<\/b> None<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Maiden voyage:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit-croatia.co.uk\/dubrovnik\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Dubrovnik<\/span><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcelona.com\/\">Barcelona<\/a> (13 days)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Home port: <\/b>Miami <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Ships then in Carnival fleet:<\/b> 24<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Interesting:<\/b> The world\u2019s biggest cruise line is getting into the boardwalk-style of design by \u201cbringing you closer to the sea\u201d at the <i>Havana Bar &amp; Pool, SkyRide at SportSquare<\/i> and <i>Seafood Shack<\/i>. It also claims to have the first IMAX theater at sea and staterooms designed for \u201cCuban culture lovers\u201d sailing the Caribbean\u2026hmm, could this become Carnival\u2019s first cruise ship for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuba.com\/\">Cuba<\/a> one day? Like almost all new ships, its first sea days will be in Europe, crossing the Atlantic to settle at home in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Miami<\/span><\/a> by year\u2019s end. The first <em>Vista Class<\/em> ship will also have a 450-foot waterslide, 20 places to eat and\/or drink and a working micro-brewery at the <i>RedFrog Pub.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Today at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">: <\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/ap\/index.html\">Grand Princess<br \/>\n<\/a>10 nights<br \/>\nFebruary 23, 2016<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfrancisco.com\/\">San Francisco<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitpuertovallarta.com\/\">Puerto Vallarta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gomanzanillo.com\/\">Manzanillo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go2mazatlan.com\/\">Mazatlan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabosanlucas.net\/\">Cabo San Lucas<\/a><br \/>\nInside: $649<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $64<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\">www.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth in a series of new ships for 2016 Carnival hasn\u2019t had a new ship in either three years or four, depending on whether you consider the re-building and name change of the Sunshine a new ship. When the Vista comes along this spring, it will launch a new class of the same name and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26660\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New ship No. 4 \u2014 Carnival Vista<\/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":[154,1303,912,72,819,86,35,703,542,102,151,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-26660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-vista","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-grand-princess","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26660","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=26660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}