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SPECIAL NOTE: Most of the below photos and comments were posted during our 14 Day Hawaii Cruise on the Carnival Splendor in January 2019. Since I already took photos of most of the venues during that cruise, I didn't think it necessary to retake those same photos. If I find any changes on the ship on this cruise, I will post those new photos below and make note by each such photo that it is new and was taken on this particular cruise.
Below you will find photos from as many areas as I was able to capture on this cruise along with maps of each deck captured from the Carnival Hub App. The maps and labels from the Carnival Hub App do not precisely match those of the paper maps that are available onboard. I suspect huge numbers of the paper maps were printed long ago and Carnival is reluctant to throw them away and print new updated ones, especially considering this ship is going into drydock October through December 2019 for further major changes. For those of you that cruise on the Carnival Splendor in December 2019 or after, it may be interesting to use the below photos to see what has changed. The new home for the Carnival Splendor is going to be Australia so you may need to go to that part of the world to take a cruise on this ship December 2019 or after.
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The Oceanview Promenade runs along the entire side of the Royal Flush Casino and contains the "Promenade Deck 5" music stage right across from the Oceanview Bar. It has comfortable seating by the windows as well as a clear path so that you don't have to navigate through the casino. The Oceanview Bar extends into and is also the bar for the Royal Flush Casino.
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In January 2018 we took a cruise on the Carnival Miracle through the Panama Canal. ( Click here for photos and reports from that cruise.) Around the same time that we went east through the old historic Panama Canal, the Carnival Splendor went west through the NEW wider Panama Canal. Both ships were docked at the same port for a shore day at Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Above you can see a comparison of the size of the two ships.
The Carnival Splendor is too wide to fit through the old historic Panama Canal and thus had to use the newer wider Panama Canal. The Carnival Miracle ship is what is known as a Panamanian Ship. That means that it is not too wide to fit through the old historic Panama Canal. For many years most cruise ships and freight ships had been built with a width specifically to be able to fit through the old historic Panama Canal and these ships were classified as Panamanian Ships. With the new wider canal, ships are no longer limited to this width. The new Panama Canal can now fit any cruise ship in the world but there are now many mega freight ships that still won't fit through even the new wider Panama Canal.
An even wider canal to handle the largest freight ships in the world connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has been proposed through the Central America country of Nicaragua, referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal or the Grand Interoceanic Canal. Wikipedia reports that no progress has been made on this project as of 2018. Click here for more information from Wikipedia.
The Carnival Splendor made trips between the east and west coast of the United States before the new Panama Canal was built. In order to do those trips it had to go all the way around the southern tip of South America. As of January 2019, the Carnival Splendor was the largest cruise ship to ever go through the new Panama Canal. Most likely cruise ships larger than the Carnival Splendor will be going through the new part of the Panama Canal in 2019.
One of Carnival's largest cruise ships, the Panorama, a new Vista Class ship, will be going through the Panama Canal later in 2019. The Carnival Panorama is currently under construction but is scheduled to be sent to Los Angeles (Long Beach), California, late in 2019 where it will do 7 Day Mexican Riviera Cruises every week through the rest of 2019, 2020, and into the forseeable future. That ship is much bigger than the Carnival Splendor and will definitely be going through the new Panama Canal to get from where it is being built in Europe to the west coast of California. I guess that ship will be replacing the Splendor as the Splendor is the ship that Carnival has been using most to do the 7 Day Mexican Riviera Cruise most weeks of the year. The Carnival Splendor is going into dry dock in Singapore in late October 2019 and then will be repositioned permanently to Australia. My wife and I are already booked on the 24 Day repositioning Carnival Splendor cruise going from Los Angeles (Long Beach), California, to Singapore in October 2019.
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