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With the success of Carnivals first purpose built cruise ship the 36,674-ton Tropicale; they ordered three larger cruise ships. The first ship of this class Holiday entered service in 1985 followed by Jubilee in 1986 and Celebration in 1987.

These ships have 9 passenger decks, 2 pools, 9 bars, casino, fitness center, 700 seat main show lounge, 447 outside cabins with 10 having verandas, 279 inside cabins, can carry 1,452 passengers and a crew of 660.

Holiday‘s original route was from Los Angeles - Mexican Riviera. Carnival transferred her to New Orleans in 2001 to be operated on cruises to various destinations throughout the Caribbean. Since 2005, Holiday has been operated out of Mobile on 4&5 night cruises to the Western Caribbean & Mexico.

Celebration’s main route is 4&5 night cruises from Jacksonville - Bahamas & Florida.

Jubilee was mainly operated out of Tampa, Galveston & San Juan - destinations throughout the Caribbean & Mexico before being transferred to P&O Australia in 2005 to cruise out of Sydney - Australia's east coast islands and New Zealand under the name Pacific Sun.

Website: www.carnival.com.