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Passengers will board the company’s newest ship inside the Long Beach Cruise Terminal, a geodesic dome adjacent to Queen Mary Island that once housed Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose seaplane. (Photograph by Brandon Richardson)Ĭarnival began taking reservations for trips on the 133,500-ton ship in March 2018. According to Stein, Carnival expects to carry 650,000 passengers a year from Long Beach going forward, “the most of any cruise operator on the West Coast.” The Panorama features one of Carnival’s signature WaterWorks water parks and Twister Waterslide, located on the ship’s highest full-sized passenger deck, Deck 12. “Bookings have remained constant over the years as we sail at capacity regardless of ship or cruise duration,” Fred Stein, Carnival Cruise Line’s vice president of revenue planning and deployment, told the Business Journal in December 2018. With the new ship, the company is increasing its capacity on trips departing from Long Beach by 33%. The Panorama is the cruise line’s first new ship on the West Coast in 20 years, and was brought in to replace Carnival Cruise’s Splendor, which could host up to 3,012 passengers. The Carnival Panorama is one of the cruise line’s three largest ships to date, with a total of 15 passenger decks and 2,004 staterooms. From Carnival’s cruise terminal in Long Beach, the ship will take passengers on week-long voyages to the Mexican Riviera of Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán and Cabo San Lucas every Saturday. Built at the Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Italy, the 4,008-passenger Panorama was welcomed to its new home port with a christening and ribbon cutting ceremony on December 10. Carnival Cruise Line’s new ship has arrived in Long Beach.