
Holiday entered service in
1985. She
is currently the smallest ship in the Carnival fleet. Any smaller ships
have either been decommissioned or sold off to another cruise line. The
ship's condition had been in decline until 2003, when it was sent into
the dry docks and renovated. In 2005, during
Hurricane Katrina, she was used as temporary housing for victims of
the storm. After leaving Mississippi, she again went to the dry docks
for an additional three weeks of renovations. New carpeting and plumbing
were added and repairs to the propellers were made, among other
improvements. Holiday has since resumed its normal route in the Western
Caribbean



