Carnival Cruises Cancelled: Carnival Triumph and Carnival Sunshine Being Repaired, Ships Out of Service, Carnival Dream Passengers Flown Home

Carinval cruises have not had a good few months. The Carnival Cruise Lines have been the butt of jokes and ridicule after their Carnival Triumph ship was stuck at sea for five days. An engine fire while in the Gulf of Mexico left over 4,000 people stranded for more than five days. Just last week the Carnival Dream's backup emergency diesel generator failed resulting in problems with the ship's elevators and toilets. As a result, the over 4,000 passengers were flown home and the Dream's next trip was cancelled. Now, Carnival Cruise Lines is going to be doing some serious maintenance to their troubled ship lines.

Carnival Cruise Lines has cancelled more than 12 cruises so it can make changes to the Carnival Triumph and Carnival Sunshine cruise ships. They will be reviewing fire safety systems and engine redundancies across its fleet and could make more changes as they continue to review the ships. The Carnival Triumph and Carnival Sunshine are already in repair yards.

"The cruise line is making significant investments to enhance the level of operating redundancies and the scope of hotel services that can run on emergency power, and further improve each ship's fire prevention, detection and suppression systems," said the cruise line in a statement. "Given the necessary lead time to source needed materials and implement the enhancements, Carnival will extend the current out-of-service period for these two ships."

These cancellations will reportedly affect over 30,000 people who planned on vacationing on Carnival Cruise Lines. Carnival will; however, give those customers a full refund, reimbursement for non-refundable transportation costs, and 25% discount on a future cruise.

Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill announced recently, "Our team of experts has worked virtually around the clock to determine the best set of solutions and rapidly develop an effective implementation plan for both of these ships...Moving forward, we will have the ability to source materials and schedule improvements much more expediently, thus minimizing the scheduling impact on other vessels."

The Carnival Triumph is set to return to sea June 3, while the Carnival Sunshine will return to service May 5.