Carnival Cruise Lines has announced the 1st implementation phase of its fleet wide comprehensive operational review, fascinated by Carnival Triumph, in addition to Carnival Sunshine, that’s currently undergoing a previously scheduled dry dock for product enhancements.
The cruise line is making significant investments to augment the extent of operating redundancies and the scope of hotel services which can run on emergency power, and additional improve each ship’s fire prevention, detection and suppression systems.
Given the required lead time to source needed materials and implement the enhancements, Carnival will extend the present out-of-service period for these two ships.
Carnival Triumph will now return to service on June 3rd, 2013, with a complete of ten additional cruises being cancelled.
Guests at the affected voyages will receive a whole refund, reimbursement for non-refundable transportation costs and a 25 per cent discount on a future four- to 5-day cruise.
Carnival Sunshine, that’s currently undergoing a multi-week dry dock to finish a comprehensive full-ship makeover, will now enter service May 5th, 2013, following the cancellation of 2 European cruises.
Guests at the cancelled Carnival Sunshine voyages will receive a whole refund, plus reimbursement for any non-refundable travel costs.
Additionally, they may receive a 25 per cent discount on a future cruise.
The overtime out of service will allow for implementation of the improved operating redundancies and other measures.
“We sincerely regret cancelling these cruises and disrupting our guests’ vacation plans,” said Gerry Cahill, Carnival Cruise Lines’ president.
“We are fully committed to applying the recommendations stemming from our fleet wide review and to make whatever investments are needed despite the difficult decision to affect people’s vacations.”
Cahill continued: “Our team of experts has worked virtually round the clock to find out the suitable set of solutions and rapidly develop a great implementation plan for either one of these ships.
“Moving forward, we can manage to source materials and schedule improvements a lot more expediently, thus minimizing the scheduling impact on other vessels.”
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