Grand Holiday
 Grand Holiday docked in Marseille | |
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| Name: |
1985-2009:Holiday 2010 onwards: Grand Holiday [1] |
| Owner: | Carnival Corporation & plc |
| Operator: |
1985-2009: Carnival Cruise Lines 2010 onwards: Iberocruceros |
| Port of registry: |
Madeira, Portugal |
| Builder: | Aalborg Værft, Ålborg, Denmark |
| Completed: | 1985 |
| Maiden voyage: | May 18th, 2010 as Grand Holiday |
| Identification: |
Callsign CQNH IMO number: 8217881 MMSI number: 255803790 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Holiday class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 46,052 GT |
| Length: | 728 ft (222 m) |
| Beam: | 105.6 ft (32.2 m) |
| Decks: | 9 |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1,452 Passengers |
| Crew: | 660 |
MS Grand Holiday is a Holiday class cruise ship, formerly owned by Carnival Cruise Lines. In April, 2010, she underwent dry dock refurbishment and was then transferred to the Ibero Cruises fleet. Sailing as the Grand Holiday began on May 18, 2010[2]
Ship history
Built by Aalborg Værft in Ålborg, Denmark, the Grand Holiday entered service for Carnival Cruise Lines in 1985 as the Holiday. The ship's condition had been in decline until 2003, when she was sent into the dry docks and renovated. In 2005, during Hurricane Katrina, she was used as temporary housing for victims of the storm.[3] After leaving Mississippi, she again went to the dry docks for an additional three weeks of renovations. New carpeting and plumbing were added and repairs to the propellers were made, among other improvements. Holiday resumed her normal route in the Western Caribbean, sailing from Mobile, Alabama until November 2009. In November 2009, Holiday was retired from the Carnival fleet and was later transferred to the fleet of Iberocruceros,[4] another cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc as the Grand Holiday. However, the Carnival style funnel was only repainted.
Meeting facilities
- Americana Lounge: 900 maximum guests reception, 725 maximum guests theater, 200 maximum guests modified classroom
- Doc Holiday's: 350 maximum guests Theater, 150 maximum guests modified classroom
- Reflections Dance Club: 400 Reception, 150 Theater, 50 modified classroom
- Lounge: 110 maximum guests Reception, 60 maximum guests theater
- Piano Bar: 60 maximum guests Reception, 30 maximum guests theater
- Library: 15 maximum guests board meeting
- Wharf Bar & Grill: 300 maximum guests reception
- Four Winds Dining Room: 414 maximum guests
- Seven Seas Dining Room: 480 maximum guests
Pictures of the Ship as Carnival Holiday
References
- ↑ http://www.iberocruceros.com/download/Iberocruceros_NewShip_Grand%20Holiday_100909.pdf
- ↑ http://www.iberocruceros.com/destinos/mediterr%C3%A1neo.aspx
- ↑ "Cruise ships chartered for refugees". msnbc.msn.com. 2005-09-03. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- ↑ Carnival Holiday leaving the fleet http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/transportation-equipment-mfg-ship/12180902-1.html
http://static2.traveltek.net/images/search.cruiseclubuk.com/images/index_images/iberocruise.pdf
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