CARNIVAL CELEBRATION Decked! A behind the scenes, top-to-bottom tour of Carnival's newest ship

[@brentshuffler1234]

[1] Many thanks for sharing with us the glories of newly built mega-ships! I am admiring the range of decors, lighting, uses of spaces, shapes and designs of spaces, the immense investments that cruise-lines have made in artwork and historical curation, including turning landings and staircases between decks into miniature art-galleries! Truly, there is nothing like a cruise-ship and no vacation like a cruise-vacation....

[@midshipcinema]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching and enjoying the details. I was very fortunate to have Glenn Aprile to share his insider info on this one.

[@user-oo3uj5ku9r]

Thank you!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you.

[@frankprovenzano2480]

Thanks Peter, so wonderful to see all the old artwork from the Empress back at sea! The Showboat Lounge was déjà vu for me. Bravo!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you so much, Frank. I'm just glad they finally did it with this one ship. Wish they chose to do more but one is better than none.

[@patrickrace]

Wonderful, Peter. How wonderful to see all these fittings you've rescued implemented on the Celebration. What a rich historical narrative this ship carries with her through these items. Well done, thank you.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you, Patrick! It really was a dream come true to see those treasures back in the Carnival fold. I hope they will do more to promote their heritage. Thanks for posting. :)

[@jolene54]

What a fabulous tour! Thank you. Beautiful ship inside and out. I agree about the steakhouses on Carnival ships. They are the best at sea... and land for that matter.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment, Jolene! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

A fantastic tour Peter. Thank you for sharing.

[@midshipcinema]

Always so great to see you post here, Chris. Your channel and videos are always so interesting and enjoyable to watch.

[@CruiseLifestylenet]

That was really great - thank you for creating such a wonderful tour.

[@Ocean2OceanTravel]

New subscriber here. We are going to be on the Jubilee in February. This is a beautiful ship. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you so much for subscribing and I hope you have a fantastic time on CARNIVAL JUBILEE! :)

[@skimmily8080]

Wow! Great video

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you. :)

[@Buncobabe]

Great review. Especially liked seeing things we normally don’t see like engine control room & recycling center.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it -- they gave us tremendous access on that sailing, which was her second cruise from the US.

[@johansjoberg5751]

Great video! Interesting design and very cool with all the history and items taken from old ships etc

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much. Appreciate your watching and commenting. :)

[@quirkycruise6641]

Excellent!! You're so good at these ship video tours, the best!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you so much, Heidi. The respect is mutual. You run the best cruising website there is. Love what you do with quirkycruise.com

[@quirkycruise6641]

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[@motaz1975]

i just sailed her recently. was a wonderful crew and ship. i admit i'm a bourbonista, and i loved the smoked manhattans from the golden jubilee. i wish i had seen this video first so i could have more appreciated that space, and your efforts to preserve the past.

[@midshipcinema]

So glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for posting here. Hopefully, you'll get another chance to enjoy those bourbons in the Golden Jubilee. They also have some QR codes that tell a lot of the backstory.

[@onjuletheauthor]

Definitely Enjoyed. This Valuable Info Helped Out A Lot*

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much for tuning in!

[@kylel4361]

Awesome video. Thanks for this I was looking for a good video with the deck plans. I enjoy your videos. I find them well articulated, informative, and and very interesting. I'll be on her in August. Now you gotta do a decked video on the original Celebration.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much, Kyle. I always try to use deck plans with my Decked! video tours as they really give an idea about the overall layout. I did do a decked of HOLIDAY but my CELEBRATION footage during her Carnival years is somewhat limited, so when I get to her, it may be a scaled down look or maybe a full tour of her as GRAND CELEBRATION a year or two before she was withdrawn and scrapped.

[@SeaTravelr123]

Listened the other day. I want to give you a much more verbose and glowing review. But I’m hitting the sheets. But in a few words: great job. Lots to unpack. TTYs. :-)

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much, @SeaTravelr123. Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate your support. :)

[@VICT0RLAZL0]

Thank you Fantastic video. Seen a few, yours was the most informative 👍

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you so much, Victor. Glad you found my video. I know there are a lot out there about the ship but I was fortunate to have a behind the scenes aspect.

[@Lyladebo22]

Great video…Husband and I was just on the Mardi Gras cruise a week ago and I must say this ship has a Lot of similarities. (Almost identical)

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you. Yes, of course, they are sisters. In my video, Glenn explained many of the subtle differences and, of course, the Golden Jubilee, which is unique to the CELEBRATION. Hope to get aboard MARDI GRAS at some point.

[@JS-wi5lf]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you too! Appreciate your watching and commenting.

[@ShelterCats]

Amazing video my friend. Sailed on the first celebration in 1990. My my how things have changed.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you, Dan! Didn't know you sailed on the CELEBRATION. I remember when she was considered a big ship. :)

[@MichaelAnderson-s1w]

Wonderful tour, best one that I have seen so far for the Celebration. Very informative and a lot of helpful hints that we will be sure to take with us on our upcoming cruise in April aboard the Celebration. Thank you so much for putting this video together I know they are a lot of work but so many of us do love seeing them❤ DO you have any footage of the Carnival Tropicale? That was my first ship I sailed on and got me hooked since.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much. I'm so happy that this tour is being enjoyed and appreciated. I did get footage of TROPICALE in New Orleans way back in 1996 or so. It was a very gloomy day but happy to have it in retrospect. I may do a "tour" of her at some point as she was a very important ship in the development of Carnival and cruising in general. Many thanks and all the best, Peter

[@annekalosh7802]

Bravo, Peter! What a terrific and informative video, wth so many layers and meaningful details! I especially enjoyed The Golden Jubilee, with treasures of Carnival's past, many rescued by you (bravo again!) and the Joe Farcus architectural drawings and other significant elements, all masterfully put together by Glenn Aprile and his colleagues. You really get an appreciation for Carnival's role in cruise history from this space. And I smiled to see Rich Pruitt giving a behind-the-scenes tour of the machinery and recycling areas. Nobody explains these important places and processes better than Rich!

[@midshipcinema]

Aww, thanks so much, Anne! Always so honored by your kind words. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and the backstory. I was very fortunate to have Glenn to share his insights into the design elements and it is always so fun to take one of Richard's behind the scenes tours. :)

[@andrewhawkins3423]

Thank you for the excellent tour : with this ship Carnival appear to have enhanced their product again. I would like to sail on her having only been on Celebrity ships so far. The beautiful artefacts you rescued with foresight and determination really are set off to perfection in the Golden Jubilee bar and I do like the sympathetic modern tiles and chairs and diorama.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much Andrew. My hats off to Glenn, Pettu and the Carnival team for executing the Golden Jubilee so well. I only wish it weren't just a one-off but better one than none. :)

[@pocketwatch5149]

glad to see a new video from you, peter ps i saw you were on vox, very nice!

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much. This one took a little more time than usual to get out there but I hope to have more soon. :)

[@fhwolthuis]

Amazing video again, Peter! This is the best Decked so far. Image quality and editing are top notch 👍🏻 About the ship itself: it is so big, opulent and overwhelming, that I don't know what to think about it. I can understand people will love it, but I think I'm more of a Hurtigruten person myself 😉

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much for watching, Frank. She is, indeed, overwhelming. Even in one week, I barely was able to see and experience the entire ship. With you on Hurtigruten, lol. :)

[@midshipcinema]

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[@brentshuffler1234]

[2] Postscript: as amazing as a 6,500-passenger capacity sounds for this newest iteration of Carnival Celebration, (recycling the name after nearly 40 years [smile]) I paused to consider that its 19 decks are far short of Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas (22 or more decks?)....and especially marvel that Celebration's roughly 180,000 tons are dwarfed by Icon of the Sea's more than 250,000 tons! . . . and capacity for over 7,500 guests....which, plus employees, means the world now has cruise-ships capable of carrying over 10,000 people at once!

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks, Brent! I'll leave those even bigger ships to you. I get exhausted just looking at them. Thanks again for watching and posting here. :)

[@eundahl2011]

Cannot wait to sail on her in June 2024 for our honeymoon!

[@midshipcinema]

Hope you have a wonderful time. Don't forget to have cocktails in the Golden Jubilee for the ultimate journey back in time. :)

[@cyrodosanjos9411]

Muito obrigado pelo vídeo

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you, Cyro! :)