Carnival is great at taking an older ship and makes a big announcement about the new ship arriving - Sunshine/Sunrise/Radiance/Luminoso/Venezia/Firenze - six ships
The costa ships are not new, especially the Luminosa which is 20 years old. The Venezia/Firenze are also not new builds and we have all yet to see them but prob are similar minus to Vista class, but with less Carnival identity. Great idea but not new modern ships like the other brands have put out. Not even close to an Oasis class ship which we have established is a 2009 build.
I am sure if they could rebrand a ship and call it “Carnival Crapolla” - if it ran well and had births they would announce yet another new ship they could call it the Happy Crappy Fun ship - The other brands are building and building for the future - Carnival is putting out fires and trying to stop the bleed as they are too heavy and weighed down. After the 3 excel ships are out they have nothing ordered and will prob cont to add ships from their other brands. I cannot wait for Carnival German style from Aida and Carnival UK style from P&O.