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Article: GIANTS OF THE SEA // New Celebration a `floating resort'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 22, 1987
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Conjure up a floating Club Med, add a little bit of Las Vegas
and a dash of Disney World, and there you have the Celebration,
Carnival Cruise Lines' brand new "Fun Ship."
The so-called "SuperLiner," more than nine stories high and
longer than two football fields, left its home port of Miami on a
special pre-inaugural voyage March 12.
Along with about 1,500 passengers, including several travel
agents and writers, I took the two-day trip into waters near Grand
Bahama Island. On March 14 the glitzy new ship began its regular
schedule of seven-day cruises, with stops at San Juan, St. Thomas and
St. Maarten.
Though some cruises seem tailor-made for sedentary fat cats,
Carnival attracts ...