Fantasy alongside the pier in Grand Turk. |
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| Name: | 1990-onwards: Fantasy |
| Owner: | Carnival Corporation & PLC |
| Operator: | Carnival Cruise Lines |
| Port of registry: | Panama[1] |
| Route: | Bahamas, Bermuda seasonal, and Florida |
| Builder: | Kvaerner Masa-Yards, Helsinki New Shipyard, Finland |
| Acquired: | 1989 |
| Maiden voyage: | March 1990 |
| In service: | 1990[1]-present |
| Refit: | 2008 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 8700773 |
| Status: | In Active Service as 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fantasy class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 70.367 GT[1] |
| Length: | 855 ft (261 m) |
| Beam: | 103 ft (31 m) |
| Draft: | 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) |
| Decks: | 10 |
| Installed power: | 2 × Sulzer-Wärtsilä 8ZAV40S diesels 4 × Sulzer-Wärtsilä 12ZAV40S diesels 42240 kW |
| Propulsion: | Two propellers |
| Speed: | 21 kn (38.89 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 2052 passengers (lower berths) 2675 passengers (all berths)[1] |
| Crew: | 920 |
The Fantasy is the lead Fantasy class cruise ship for Carnival Cruise Lines. She is the currently the oldest ship in the Carnival fleet.
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Fantasy entered service in 1990 and is now the oldest cruise ship in the fleet.[2]
Fantasy spent a month in drydock in the Fall of 2008. She was the third ship to receive the full Evolutions of Fun upgrade that her sister ships Carnival Inspiration and Carnival Imagination received in 2007.[3]
Fantasy was initially based out of the Port of Miami as the first new ship ever placed on 3- and 4-day Bahamas cruises from Miami. In 1993 she was moved to Port Canaveral becoming the first "mega-ship" to be homeported there. In the Fall of 2006, the Fantasy was the first Carnival ship to come back to Louisiana and make New Orleans its home port after Hurricane Katrina, embarking on 4- and 5-day cruises to Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico.
On September 17, 2009 Carnival announced that the Fantasy would be based out of Mobile, Alabama to replace the Holiday[4] until the Carnival Elation begins operations in Mobile. On September 17, 2009 Carnival announced that Fantasy would be deployed to Charleston, South Carolina.
She currently sails year round, five- and six-night cruises and seasonal seven-night cruises out of Charleston, South Carolina. The five-night cruises visit Nassau and Freeport, 6-night cruises visit Key West, Freeport, and Nassau, the seasonal six-night cruises visit Kings Warf, Bermuda, and the 7-night cruises visit Grand Turk, Half Moon Cay, and Nassau.[5]
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