Carnival Pride completed her transatlantic cruise to Barcelona, Spain and is now at her scheduled dry dock in Cádiz. She will receive several interior and exterior changes, a new lounge, an upgraded steakhouse, and new looks for the spa and fitness area.
Part of her exterior upgrades includes a new Carnival livery that features a patriotic red, white and blue hull design, and some of her interior upgrades will make navigating the ship easier for cruisers with disabilities.
The last time the Spirit-class ship received upgrades was in 2014 when we received offerings such as Guy’s Burger Joint, BlueIguana Cantina, and WaterWorks.
During this dry dock Carnival Pride is scheduled to receive the Heroes Tribute Bar & Lounge, making her the fifth Carnival ship to introduce the venue that salutes the United States military. The Cloud 9 Spa and Fitness Center will be outfitted with new state-of-the-art equipment. Her steakhouse will be upgraded to the Fahrenheit 555 Steakhouse across two separate decks and a new Carnival Adventures shop and Dreams Photography Studio will be introduced onboard.
Carnival Pride will also receive upgrades to 29 existing cabins converting them into ADA-compliant cabins. These means they will have wider doorways and other amenities making guests with disabilities more comfortable and safer while cruising.
While adding five new cabins to the nightclub level might seem counterintuitive, Carnival is making them soundproof. One of those cabins will be ADA compliant, two will be inside cabins and the last two will be ocean views.
Once Carnival Pride completes her dry dock at the end of May, she is scheduled to embark on a 12-day sailing from Barcelona to Dover. The voyage will begin in May 28, 2023 and includes ports in Gibraltar in the UK, Lisbon and Porto in Portugal, Vigo, La Coruna, and Bilbao in Spain, La Rochelle and Le Havre in France, and Zeebrugge in Belgium, before arriving in Dover, England, on June 9. She will remain in Europe for the summer transporting cruisers to places in Western Europe, the Baltic, Iceland, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Carnival Pride will offer four cruises around the Mediterranean in September and October before making her transatlantic voyage back to the United States from Rome. She is expected back to her homeport in Tampa, Florida on November 12.