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Carnival Cruise Lines’ new 113,000-ton Carnival Splendor will feature an array of activities aimed to please families traveling with youngsters. Among the amenities are a 5,500-square-foot play area, a water spray park and dedicated facilities and supervised activities aimed at youngsters, tweens and teens.
The largest “Fun Ship” ever constructed, the 3,006-passenger Carnival Splendor is slated to debut July 2, with an eight-day Europe voyage from Genoa followed by the launch of the line’s first-ever 12-day Northern Europe program from London (Dover) July 13.
Carnival Splendor will offer different programs catering to specific age groups, including “Camp Carnival” (ages 2-11), “Circle C” (ages 12-14) and “Club O2″ (ages 15-17), along with children’s menus, a corkscrew water slide, a stroller rental program and numerous other family-friendly features.
A focal point is the 5,500-square-foot children’s play area — roughly 30 percent bigger than the largest facility in the Carnival fleet. Located mid-ship on Panorama Deck, the two-level facility will be divided into separate areas with each focusing on a different activity or function.
One area will be an all-ages playroom with a variety of toys, games and puzzles. Another will be a computer game room with the latest computer gaming consoles, while a third will offer a dance floor and plasma-screen TV displaying music videos and popular children’s movies.
Located one deck above will be a children’s water park with various water-spray apparatus, and a wet tot lot. The water park will complement Carnival Splendor’s four swimming pools, including a pool on Panorama Deck featuring the line’s signature 214-foot-long “Twister Waterslide.”
In addition to activities focusing on music, art, science and physical fitness, Carnival Splendor will also offer educational programming geared toward the ship’s various European, Caribbean, South American and Mexican Riviera itineraries.
Carnival Splendor will be the first “Fun Ship” to feature a purpose-built “Circle C” facility, which caters specifically to the 12- to 14-year-old set. Located mid-ship on Atlantic Deck, the facility will feature a dance floor with high-tech sound and lighting system, along with 42-inch plasma-screen TVs displaying movies and music videos, and a touch-screen jukebox stocked with the latest hits.
Other features will include gaming pods with the latest video games and consoles, with 20-inch plasma-screens positioned throughout the room and used exclusively for video gaming. “Circle C” activities will include basketball, volleyball, ping-pong, water games, and late-night movies and pool parties.
Carnival Splendor will offer its own version of the “Club O2″ teen program, which is aimed at kids ages 15 to 17. The 2,365-square-foot facility, located mid-ship on Promenade Deck, will include a dance floor, DJ, a sound and lighting system, and a lounge where teens can relax and enjoy non-alcoholic specialty drinks.
A library with popular teen-oriented books and magazines will also be available. Special shore excursions offering older kids an opportunity to visit historic European destinations together as a group, along with Carnival’s Y Spa teen spa treatment program, will also be offered.
Carnival Splendor will offer family-friendly options such as children’s menus in the main dining rooms, 24-hour pizza and ice cream at the poolside restaurant, and a program where kids can enjoy a meal with the youth staff on the Lido Deck.
Children’s turn-down service providing freshly baked cookies at bedtime and Carnival’s “Fountain Fun Card,” which, for a one-time fee, provides unlimited soft drinks throughout the voyage, will also be available. Nightly babysitting services, at a cost of $6 per hour for the first child and $4 per hour for each additional child in the same family, along with Carnival’s stroller rental program, are also available.
Also featured will be “Carnival’s Seaside Theatre,” a 270-square-foot LED screen located poolside on Lido Deck and displaying movies, concerts and other programming.
Of the ship’s 1,503 staterooms, nearly 200 will be interconnecting with more than 350 accommodating up to three and four guests. Following a one-time eight-day Western Europe voyage from Genoa July 2-10, Carnival Splendor will launch the line’s first 12-day Northern Europe cruise program from London (Dover) July 13.
The program will run through Aug. 30, after which the ship will sail a transatlantic crossing from London to Fort Lauderdale, from where it will launch a schedule of seven-day Caribbean voyages beginning Nov. 29. From January to March 2009, Carnival Splendor will operate a series of 14- to 18-day South America voyages — the line’s first within the region — then reposition to Long Beach, Calif., for year-round seven-day Mexican Riviera voyages beginning March 29.
Reservations are currently being accepted for all of the Carnival Splendor’s European, Caribbean, South American and Mexican Riviera itineraries. Round-trip air supplements and special discounted rates for third and fourth guests sailing in the same stateroom are also available.
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