Effective April 6, 2006, Carnival Cruise Lines will permanently swap the itineraries operated by its cruise ships Fantasy and Sensation. Both ships are based at Port Canaveral, Florida. The Fantasy will take over the Sensation’s four- and five-day Bahamas/Grand Turk cruise program and the Sensation will, in turn, operate the Fantasy’s three- and four-day Bahamas program. The two vessels are virtually identical sister ships with the same features, amenities, accommodations and layout.

The change is being made as the result of a technical issue on the Sensation which is limiting the ship’s maximum cruising speed. The ship cannot sail at a speed that enables it to operate its current five-day itinerary but it does have sufficient speed to operate the Fantasy’s existing three and four-day Bahamas program. The technical issue, which relates to the Sensation’s propulsion system, is only impacting the ship’s maximum speed. All hotel systems and services are functioning normally. 

Reservations will automatically be switched from one ship to the other and booking numbers and stateroom assignments will remain the same.  For guests who have already received cruise documents, new ones will not be issued.  Guests may use their existing documents.

Air transportation purchased through Carnival will remain intact and previously received e-ticket receipt coupons will continue to be valid.

For guests who have already registered through Carnival’s Fun Pass pre-cruise online check-in system, it is not necessary to re-register. Advance shore excursion purchases will remain in place, as well.

The year-round three and four-day Bahamas program, to now be operated on Sensation, features three-day voyages departing Thursdays to Nassau, The Bahamas. Four-day cruises, departing Sundays, visit Nassau and Freeport, The Bahamas.

The year-round four and five-day Bahamas/Grand Turk program will operate from April 6 through Oct. 19, 2006 on the Fantasy and then be assumed by the Elation, effective Oct. 23, 2006, as previously announced. Four-day cruises visit Nassau and either Freeport or Half Moon Cay, The Bahamas, while five-day cruises visit Grand Turk, in the Turks & Caicos Islands, Half Moon Cay and Nassau (with the exception of three departure dates in 2007 that will feature Key West and Cozumel).

In October 2006, the Fantasy will reposition to New Orleans to resume a four- and five-day cruise program previously operated prior to Hurricane Katrina.  (Originally, the program was to be resumed on Sensation but will now be operated on the Fantasy.) Four-day cruises will visit Cozumel, Mexico while five-day voyages will call at Cozumel, as well as either Calica or Costa Maya, Mexico.

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