Carnival Cruise Line

MS Carnival Destiny

Novice, experienced cruise traveler or cruise addict, it is imperative to approach Carnival's new ships with an air of insouciant innocence, because these ships incorporate architectural, aesthetic and decorative whimsy that originate in the world of fantasy and are brought to realization by the talents of men and women too.

Yes, it is very true that we like Carnival's giant ships. Biggest of them all for a while, the DESTINY, now nearly dwarfed by her monster-sized competitor for vacationers' bucks VOYAGER OF THE SEAS, deserves a very long look. Everything about the CARNIVAL DESTINY is big, the word "oversized" hardly suffices. Just look at her dimensions as printed in Carnival's brochures¼ 893 feet long, a near record beam of 116 feet (the QUEEN MARY was two feet wider)...and without being cute about it, the CARNIVAL DESTINY's extreme beam at Lido Deck is 125 feet...meaning that at the extreme width on that deck, she overhangs others by 4 and a half feet on either side...and with that gross tonnage of 101,353 with a crew of at least 1,100 men and women to look after her passengers, the CARNIVAL DESTINY is more than a milepost in the development of cruise ships. She may well be a model for cruise ships of all sizes still to come.

No matter what it is you like in a cruise ship, you're going to find it here. We would be happy to sail in the DESTINY for her gym and spa facilities, and upper end cabins and suites alone...there are an awful lot of suites as well as hundreds of standard cabins with balconies.....impressive because we're not talking luxury line here....this ship is from a company that charges realistic rates...a ship where balcony cabins outnumber cabins without balconies. Naturally, a ship this large would have plenty more reasons for anyone who is neither a gym rat frustrated by the 98pound weakling gyms found on most ships, or a cabin diva....and if you've read enough of Goldberg's reviews, you know he's both....to like the DESTINY.

Simply put, for all the hype in all the cruise brochures in all the world, nobody has topped the CARNIVAL DESTINY and even though bigger ships have come down the ways...ships like Princess's curiously shaped GRAND PRINCESS whose overhanging disco at the stern makes her look in profile like an enormous shopping cart to some, as well as that RCI ship we mentioned above, and even her own slightly larger sisters, nobody is going to top the DESTINY. Quite a claim from crusty old travel writers and maritime historians that we are, but if you like or if you don't like, we can substantiate that claim for you. With but some of the glow in the dark, ever changing color fiber optic thrills of the ECSTASY to please die-hard, party-hardy fans, the CARNIVAL DESTINY has been designed, built, fitted, yea conceived to impress not just us and not just you, but everybody. Three full decks of public rooms, and yet we got no sense of being lost in an airport terminal, for there are enough facilities to constantly keep our attention, invite our attention, or welcome us to a take a seat, if not bid us to a dance floor. And we don't know of many other ships that can do that. This monster ship has everything.... most importantly, she has more quiet places where you can head to avoid or ignore the tumult and hubbub of cruise life aboard a ship that can carry more than 3,200 passengers at a time. People watching might keep you busy for a whole week.