Carnival Celebration Porthole Gallery And The Golden Jubilee Bar

The Carnival Celebration ship came out in 2022 for the Golden Jubilee of Carnival Cruise Line. The porthole Gallery paid tribute to the decades. This area also had original doors and original bulkhead from the first Carnival Cruise ship: TSS Mardi Gras. My maternal grandparents, Madeline and Earl Gordon, went on the inaugural cruise for Carnival on the Mardi Gras. We never went on that ship, but we did go on the new Mardi Gras. We did however, go on the original Carnival Celebration ship in 1997. We had already been on the Carnival Holiday which left out of Southern California. That ship had a 1950s bus on it. We flew to New Orleans to go on the Celebration just because it had a New Orleans style street car on it.  When you look at the video of the glass bulkhead that had been on the original Mardi Gras, you can see the bar lounge behind it and the chairs that are exactly the same as they were in a lounge in the Mardi Gras in the 1970s. You will also see those chairs depicted in the 1970s portal.   When you look at the porthole gallery, you see that the original Carnival Celebration is deemed a super liner.  It’s not very super by today’s standards. Both it and the Carnival Holiday weighed around 46,000 tons. The new Celebration Celebration weighs 183,000 tons. I have to say that we had just as much fun on the original ship as we did on this new behemoth.