New on Mardi Gras outdoor dining at Cucina del Capitano, part of La Piazza Inspired by Italy, La Piazza on the new Mardi Gras is home to new food and beverage outlets along with expanded versions of Carnival favorites.
Designed to resemble a stroll through an Italian courtyard with red brick, streetlights and ornate iron and tile work, as well as murals of famous piazzas in Rome, Venice and other Italian cities, La Piazza also features fun, Insta-worthy touches like a Vespa and a Fiat. Both are from 1972, the year of Carnival Cruise Line’s founding with the original Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras maiden voyage is planned for April 2021
Coronavirus may have brought the global cruise industry to its knees last year but cruise lines remain confident that they will take to the water once more in 2021 – many on spectacular new ships.
The coolest, and craziest, new ship for 2021 has to be Mardi Gras.
Carnival’s 6,500 passenger ship features the world’s first rollercoaster at sea – take a bow, Bolt – as well as restaurants from celebrities and sports stars, a suspended rope course, water park, two theatres and a 1972 Fiat strategically parked in a “piazza” for Instagram purposes.
Mardis Gras will also one of the first ships to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), thereby slashing pollution and making it one one of the greenest cruise giants in North America.