Carnival Fascination
Carnival Fascination, originally Fascination, was a cruise ship built at Helsinki, Finland in 1994. For most of her service with Carnival Cruise Lines she operated out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2017 Carnival Fascination was chartered to the US Government to assist with hurricane relief work in the Virgin Islands. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic the ship was withdrawn from service and in November that year sold for conversion to a hotel ship for Century Harmony Cruise Ltd, that renamed her Century Harmony. However, in October 2021 she was sold for scrapping, arriving at Gadani [Ship Breaking Yard] in Pakistan as Y Harmony in February 2022.
Carnival Cruise Line
The ship was the fourth of Carnival Cruise Lines' built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Finland. She was floated out on July 1, 1994, and christened Fascination by Jeanne Farcus. The ship was registered under the Panamanian flag and mostly home-ported in San Juan, Puerto Rico, sailing in the Caribbean year-round. In 2000 her port of registry was changed to Nassau, under the Bahamas flag. During 2007, in common with all of her Fantasy-class sisters, she had the prefix Carnival added to her name.After the destruction caused in the United States Virgin Islands by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Carnival Fascination was chartered to the Federal Emergency Management Agency from October 15, 2017, until February 3, 2018, to house relief workers at St Croix. This charter cost FEMA $74.7 million. At the end of the charter, the ship was given a further refit prior to returning to Carnival's services out of Puerto Rico.
In July 2020, as a result of Carnival Cruise Line reducing fleet capacity, Carnival Fascination entered a long term lay-up, with no planned date for the ship to return to service. In November 2020, the cruise line announced that the ship had been sold to Century Harmony Cruise Ltd.
Refits
Fascination was given a multimillion-dollar refurbishment while in dry dock during September 2006.In January 2010 Carnival Fascination was again dry docked to be refurbished.
In January 2013, Carnival Fascination underwent another dry dock.
Areas of operation
Fascination sailed from New York between July 24 and September 4, 1994, before moving to San Juan, Puerto Rico. As Carnival Fascination, she sailed from Jacksonville, Florida to the Bahamas.In 2013 and 2014, Coco Cay replaced Key West on some of Carnival Fascinations itineraries. Coco Cay is a private island in the Bahamas owned by rival cruise line Royal [Caribbean International]. In April, 2016, Carnival Fascination re-positioned to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she undertook Southern Caribbean cruises.