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Costa Fascinosa

Costa Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri

Costa Fascinosa entered service in May 2012 at around 113,200 GT, completing a class whose name ship had sunk four months earlier.

Length overall290 m
Beam35.5 m
Gross tonnage113,216 GT
Passengers3,780
Speed21.5 kn
Delivered2012
Our numbers

Derived metrics

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

Passengers per metre#28 of 116
13.0 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#58 of 142
8.17 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Costa Fascinosa's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Costa Fascinosa290 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 Costa Fascinosa = 1.08 Titanics · 2.8 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 3.8 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall≈290 m
Beam≈35.5 m
Gross tonnage≈113,216 GT
Passengers≈3,780 (max)
Crew≈1,100
Decks13 passenger decks
Speed≈21.5 kn
Entered serviceMay 2012

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The story

What makes it different

Costa Fascinosa was delivered in May 2012, four months after the loss of Costa Concordia — the ship her class was named for. She was already built and fitting out when the disaster happened, and entered service into a company being restructured around it.

Mechanically she is a straightforward Concordia-class ship: around 113,000 gross tons, 290 metres, thirteen passenger decks and capacity for some 3,780 people at maximum occupancy.

Her interiors follow the class theme of Italian cinema, with public rooms named for films and film-makers. Costa's design language across this generation is unapologetically maximalist, which sets the older ships apart sharply from the restrained LNG pair that now leads the fleet.

The class

The Costa Fascinosa line

Concordia class
The sixth and final ship of the class. Costa now operates four: Serena, Pacifica, Favolosa and Fascinosa.
Operators

Who operates the Costa Fascinosa

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

CSTCosta CruisesMediterranean and Northern Europe itineraries.1
Quick answers

Costa Fascinosa, asked and answered

How long is the Costa Fascinosa?
290 m (951 ft) length overall — the #116 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 2.8 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Costa Fascinosa compared to the Titanic?
The Costa Fascinosa is 1.08× the Titanic's length — 290 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 113,216 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 2.4 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Costa Fascinosa?
Costa Cruises. Current status: in service.
Does the Costa Fascinosa fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 290 m by 35.5 m on a 8.2 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.