San Juan has regained its homeported Carnival Cruise Line
ship, five months after Hurricane Maria knocked the Carnival Fascination out of
the market.
The 2,056-passenger Fantasy-class ship was chartered to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency for use by relief workers in St. Croix for several
months after the storm while Carnival repaired damage to its terminal in San
Juan.
The 24-year-old ship then went into a drydock to be upgraded before
returning to cruising duty. Several
Funship 2.0 restaurants were installed during the drydock, including Guy's
Burger Joint, the BlueIguana Cantina and Bonsai Sushi Express. Bar concepts new
to the ship will be the Alchemy Bar, the RedFrog Rum Bar and the BlueIguana
Tequilla Bar. The candy store Cherry on Top was also retrofitted to the ship.
The Fascination will depart San Juan on Sundays for seven-day
round trip voyages stopping in St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Thomas and
St. Maarten.