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Carnival Breeze

Carnival Cruise Line · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri

Carnival Breeze closed the Dream class for Carnival in 2012 and held flagship status for four years, the longest gap between new ships in the line's modern history.

Length overall306.02 m
Beam37.19 m
Gross tonnage128,048 GT
Passengers3,690
Speed22.5 kn
Delivered2012
Our numbers

Derived metrics

Computed by ships.fyi from the core specification — see how we calculate these.

Passengers per metre#45 of 116
12.1 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#51 of 142
8.23 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Carnival Breeze's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Carnival Breeze306.02 m
Eiffel Tower (height)330 m
Titanic269.06 m
Football pitch105 m
Boeing 747-876.3 m
Blue whale25 m
You (probably)1.75 m

The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m) — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.

One Carnival Breeze = 1.14 Titanics · 2.9 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 4.0 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall306.02 m
Beam (waterline)37.19 m
Draught8.23 m
Gross tonnage≈128,048 GT
Passengers≈3,690 (double) / ≈4,724 (max)
Crew≈1,367
Decks14 passenger decks
Service speed22.5 kn
Entered service6 March 2012

Last verified: 2026-07-15 · Spot an error? business@luck.fyi

The story

What makes it different

Carnival Breeze was the last of the Dream class delivered to Carnival Cruise Line, entering service in March 2012, and she then held flagship status for four years — the longest Carnival went without a new ship in its modern era.

She dropped the water park of her sisters in favour of a larger adults-only Serenity deck, and carried the debut of Guy's Burger Joint, the Guy Fieri partnership that has since been fitted to almost every ship in the fleet. Subsequent refits added Guy's Pig & Anchor BBQ and the Alchemy Bar.

By current standards she is mid-sized — about 128,000 gross tons against the Excel ships' 183,000 — but the Dream platform she completes is still the most numerous large-ship family Carnival operates, and the direct ancestor of the Vista class.

The class

The Carnival Breeze line

Dream class
Third and last Dream-class ship built for Carnival Cruise Line; the fourth hull became Costa Diadema in 2014.
Operators

Who operates the Carnival Breeze

All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.

CCLCarnival Cruise LineCaribbean itineraries from Galveston, Texas.1
Quick answers

Carnival Breeze, asked and answered

How long is the Carnival Breeze?
306.02 m (1,004 ft) length overall — the #91 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 2.9 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Carnival Breeze compared to the Titanic?
The Carnival Breeze is 1.14× the Titanic's length — 306.02 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 128,048 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 2.8 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Carnival Breeze?
Carnival Cruise Line. Current status: in service.
Does the Carnival Breeze fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 306.02 m by 37.19 m on a 8.23 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.