Is Carnival Constructing One of many Largest Swimming Swimming pools within the World?

Carnival Cruise Line’s latest vacation spot — Celebration Key — remains to be about two years from welcoming its first passengers. Given the timeline, whereas the cruise line has launched some basic details about the personal spot, numerous particulars have but to be introduced.

As an illustration, we all know Celebration Key can be positioned on the coast of Grand Bahama Island. The port will have the ability to host two Excel-class ships (Carnival’s present largest sort of ship) without delay. We additionally know there can be a mile-long seashore, procuring, eating, and shore excursions out there. (For more on what we know so far about Celebration Key, see this post.)

Nevertheless it’s a brand new rendering launched that has us questioning if Carnival could be constructing one of many largest swimming swimming pools on the planet.

In a press launch asserting the opening of bookings to Celebration Key beginning in July 2025, Carnival additionally included a rendering of the vacation spot we had but to see.

Have a look:

As you’ll be able to see, there’s loads to digest. Beginning with the pier on the left aspect of the picture, we will see the huge stretch of seashore with blue water. There are cabanas, a essential welcome plaza, and a big youngsters’s splash pad.

What caught our consideration, nevertheless, is the huge pool that appears to stretch almost so long as the seashore itself. It’s surrounded by a great deal of seating, palm timber, and a variety of buildings.

Actually, Carnival talked about this “lagoon” in its press launch when it mentioned, “The vacation spot’s options and choices can be anchored across the largest freshwater lagoons within the Caribbean that may provide quite a few leisure and leisure actions for each households and adults.”

That made us look somewhat nearer at simply precisely what Carnival appears to have deliberate… and it appears massive.

Renderings Present a Huge Pool for Cruise Passengers

To make certain, the cruise line hasn’t launched any data we’ve seen particularly in regards to the pool space. And within the earlier quote, it mentions “lagoons” implying that there are a number of, which may imply what seems to be one giant pool is probably not steady.

Even so, indicators appear to level to the development of an infinite pool advanced that would presumably rival a few of the largest on the planet.

We dug into Carnival’s website on the development of Celebration Key. There, the cruise line outlines a a couple of particulars in regards to the planning and constructing of the vacation spot.

Looking by way of the positioning, we discovered a web page calling for contractors and distributors to submit proposals to work on the development. Inside these RFPs (requests for proposals) we noticed a easy rendering of an overhead shot of Celebration Key:

There’s little or no element, nevertheless it does present two ships docked and an enormous pool. Now that is on no account a closing rendering, nevertheless it can provide some hints as to the scale utilizing the ships for scale.

Right here, two Carnival ships are proven. Whereas we will’t make out if they’re a selected class of ship, most ships within the Carnival fleet measure between 950 ft to 1,150 ft. Utilizing an estimation of 1,000 ft for the ships within the picture, we will get a ballpark concept of simply how giant the pool proven really is.

By our estimates, based mostly on the scale of the ships, this scale would make the pool almost 1,700 ft in size — almost 5 soccer fields lengthy!

If that’s the case and it’s one steady pool, that might put the spot on Celebration Key inside hanging distance of a few of the largest swimming pools on the planet.

The most important pool in floor space is the Citystars Sharm El Sheikh, positioned in Egypt. That pool is available in at roughly 2,500 ft in size, however a couple of million sq. ft. The most important pool in the US is Epperson Lagoon in Florida at roughly 1,500 ft and an space of about 30,000 sq. ft.

It has but to be seen simply how giant the brand new pool at Celebration Key will really be, nevertheless it appears clear that Carnival has one thing giant in thoughts for visitors.

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