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Topic: COSTA ROMANTICA refit.

Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 11-21-2011 10:53 AM

What do you think about this.

Rape rape. Really here good looks are gone in this image. From here: Grande como il mare.

Greetings Ben.

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Galaxy
First Class Passenger
Member # 5160

posted 11-21-2011 11:02 AM

Well,its sad to see what they do to her....but the good thing is that Costa get their first Spaceship in the fleet when she is finish

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 11-21-2011 11:07 AM

Looks like another EPIC block house added on.
Did they strectch the center???
F4

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 11-21-2011 01:21 PM

No stretching, just adding a bunch of balconies there..

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 11-21-2011 01:33 PM

What is that big windowed area at the front of the superstructure? It looks very much like Costa Victoria.

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rd77
First Class Passenger
Member # 2117

posted 11-22-2011 10:11 AM

Yes this whole refit is horrible. IMHO it is even worse than what Carnival did to some FANTASY class vessels. The current SPLENDOUR OF THE SEAS refit also comes close however.

Did you know she will also be renamed as COSTA NEOROMANTICA? Ugh!!!

I only hope that sister COSTA CLASSICA will be deemed to old to refit and left well alone...

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 11-22-2011 04:45 PM

She is going to look very disproportional when the butcher job is complete. If Costa had stretched the ship also, the upper decks addition may not look too bad....

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 11-22-2011 04:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NAL:
What is that big windowed area at the front of the superstructure? It looks very much like Costa Victoria.

That area will house the new gym/fitness center. I recall there used to be a show lounge at that location.

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jeffrossatsea
First Class Passenger
Member # 2962

posted 11-22-2011 07:24 PM

thats why they are called Carnivore...they chew up ships and spit them out...mangled and unsightly...jeff

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Salaison
First Class Passenger
Member # 4722

posted 11-23-2011 12:44 PM

Poor Romantica

why are these guys butchering ships.....everything is starting to look like crap!!!

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 11-23-2011 01:17 PM

I can't think of many major exterior alterations that have gone well. There are of course exceptions such as Sitmar's rebuilding of tss Fairsea and Fairwind which produced two ships far more attractive than as originally built. I also think that the 1959 rebuilding of the Independence and Constitution was well thought out (the original design was of course better looking) but that was a different era when exterior design was extremely important.

[ 11-23-2011: Message edited by: lasuvidaboy ]

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 11-23-2011 02:58 PM

There's a hole in Costa Romantica's bow. The space is being used to add the new featurs of the Samsara Spa.

Source (with more images): WorldCruises.com

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DEIx15x8
First Class Passenger
Member # 14958

posted 11-25-2011 08:37 PM

I don't understand Carnival's obsession with building above the bridge. Every time I look at the newest Carnival ships they just look bad like the Epic and it's not because of the extra decks since they look fine from the side. It's because the bridge is in the middle of the ship. When you look at the Oasis she looks great from the front and yet she is taller than these other new ships, the difference is that the bridge is the top. It makes a big difference in the perceived top heaviness of a ships appearance as we all perceive anything above that point as "tacked on" whether they are or not.

If they had carried the smoothness of the front surface up another two decks and then put the bridge she may have a better appearance. It appears that they are doing extensive renovations to the bridge anyway.

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LeBarryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 5308

posted 11-25-2011 10:35 PM

I never did like the goofy round dish on top of Romantica and Classica, the space just felt odd to me.

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 12-29-2011 02:32 AM

More photos of the revitalization of Romantica in this link.

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 12-29-2011 02:53 AM

Video on the refit

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 02-06-2012 04:58 AM

Any new pictures of her? I had been watching her on the Genoa shipyard webcam and then one day she was gone.

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 02-06-2012 07:54 AM

She has just moved [24 Jan] to the next basin and out of view of the webcam. See here. I don't really think Moby Wonder is berthed like that either

The last photo I have seen is dated 19 Jan here.

Pam

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DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 02-06-2012 08:14 AM

NCL had that extra deck above the bridge on the NORWAY, which I think was a waste of money and it made her look terrible.
I'm not crazy about the look to the COSTA ROMANTICA either, it makes her appear too top heavy. I think the problem here is, 'we've got to do anything we can to make these ships outdo the others, even if the looks are'nt appealing.' Give me the looks of the older ships of the past that cruising first started out as and then I'll start cruising again.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 02-06-2012 12:21 PM

I agree that the extra decks added to Norway ruined her once beautiful profile but the alterations allowed her to compete with more modern tonnage coming on line. Norway was getting tired and NCL had little choice but to increase her capacity and scope of facilities. The sleek Atlantic greyhound profile was sacrificed in the process.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-06-2012 02:22 PM

If 'Norwegian Epic' and 'Pride of America' conceived a child, it would look like NEOROMANTICA!

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 02-06-2012 03:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:
If 'Norwegian Epic' and 'Pride of America' conceived a child, it would look like NEOROMANTICA!

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 02-06-2012 04:40 PM

This one is surely one of the most unattractive!

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Michael534
First Class Passenger
Member # 2953

posted 02-06-2012 06:47 PM

You said it Malcolm! Let's hope they don't keep breeding!!
When I first saw the rendering Thad posted I thought of two things.
1. It looked like something made of Lego blocks.
2. Looking at all the mish mash of elements in the design (I use that word loosely) crammed onto/into such a small ship I was reminded of the days when people would put Rolls Royce hoods on VW bugs. And like the VW/RR conversions, the ship looks like a parody of her original self.

Looking at what she looks like in the latest pictures I can only be amused.

Now all I can think of is a lyric from Funny Girl..
"Oh, she's got very nice departments! Ugh, but when they see that assortment..."

Michael

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DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 02-06-2012 07:28 PM

Question, what are they thinking?? Or what have they been smoking?

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