Carnival Miracle

	; Carnival Miracle docked in Tortola
Name:	Carnival Miracle
Owner:	Carnival Corporation & PLC
Operator:	Carnival Cruise Lines
Port of registry:	22x20px Panama
Builder:	Kvaerner Masa-Yards (Helsinki, Finland)
Cost:	US $375 million
Christened:	February 27, 2004 by Jessica Lynch in Jacksonville, Florida
Completed:	2004
Maiden voyage:	February 27, 2004 (Bahamas)
In service:	April 2004-present
Identification:	IMO number: 9237357; Call Sign H3VS; MMSI 354277000
Status:	In Active Service as of 2010
General characteristics
Class and type:	Spirit Class cruise ship
Tonnage:	88,500 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	963 ft (294 m)
Beam:	105.7 ft (32 m)
Draft:	25.5 ft (8 m)
Decks:	12 decks
Installed power:	diesel-electric (62,370kW each)
Propulsion:	2 azimuthing pods (17.6MW each)
Speed:	22-knot (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity:	2,124 passengers
Crew:	930 crew

Carnival Miracle is a Spirit class cruise ship owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC and operated by Carnival Cruise Lines. She offers Caribbean cruises from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and New York, New York during the winter months with ports of call in Grand Cayman, Costa Maya, Mexico; Belize, and Cozumel, Mexico and Southern Caribbean cruises to St. Lucia and St. Kitts. During the summer months, it offers cruises from New York City with ports of call in San Juan, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos. Eighty percent of her staterooms have ocean views, and eighty percent of those feature private balconies.^[7] Also unique to the Carnival Miracle is an 11-story Metropolis atrium with a ruby-red glass ceiling, which is also part of the "Y" shaped smoke stack.^[7] Next to every room is a large picture of a famous movie or story character, like Long John Silver.

Activities

Carnival Miracle has many different activities onboard. Some are:

mini golf course
a running track
a water slide
a children's facility for kids aged 2 to 14
two pools and hot tubs, plus an adult only pool in the back and a hot tub in the front (for crew members only)
a party room, Dr. Frankenstein's lab
an arcade, Wizards arcade
Mr. Lucky's casino

Public rooms on Carnival Miracle are named after fictional characters:^[8]

The lobby and atrium are named after the Metropolis of Superman fame.
The lobby lounge is called the Jeeves Lounge, after the fictional butler of P.G. Wodehouse's novels.
The foyer is the Batman-inspired Gotham Lounge.
Main dining room: Bacchus
Restaurant Annex: Ariadne
Lido Deck: Horatio's
Supper Club: Nick and Nora's
Phantom Lounge
Mad Hatter's Ball Show lounge
Dance Club: Dr. Frankenstein's lab
Mr. Lucky's casino
Maguire's Sports bar
The piano bar is named Sam's after the movie Casablanca.
The Raven Library is named after Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven"
Gatsby's Garden

Career
Carnival Miracle docked in Tortola
Name:	Carnival Miracle
Owner:	Carnival Corporation & PLC
Operator:	Carnival Cruise Lines
Port of registry:	22x20px Panama^[1]
Builder:	Kvaerner Masa-Yards (Helsinki, Finland)^[1]
Cost:	US $375 million^[1]
Christened:	February 27, 2004^[2] by Jessica Lynch in Jacksonville, Florida^[3]^[4]
Completed:	2004
Maiden voyage:	February 27, 2004 (Bahamas)^[4]
In service:	April 2004^[1]-present
Identification:	IMO number: 9237357^[5] Call Sign H3VS^[5] MMSI 354277000^[6]
Status:	In Active Service as of 2010
General characteristics
Class and type:	Spirit Class cruise ship
Tonnage:	88,500 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	963 ft (294 m)
Beam:	105.7 ft (32 m)
Draft:	25.5 ft (8 m)^[1]
Decks:	12 decks
Installed power:	diesel-electric (62,370kW each)^[1]
Propulsion:	2 azimuthing pods (17.6MW each)^[1]
Speed:	22-knot (41 km/h; 25 mph)^[1]
Capacity:	2,124 passengers
Crew:	930 crew