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Costa Deliziosa is long, with a beam of . The ship has a gross tonnage of 92,700. Up to 2,828 passengers can be carried in 1,130 cabins. The ship has a cruising speed of , and a top speed of . Around 3,000 people worked on the construction of Costa Deliziosa which cost more than euro450 million .
On 28 December 2011, Costa Deliziosa embarked on a 100-day round-the-world cruise. Departing from Savona, the ship visited the Caribbean, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, before returning to Italy.
In 2013 the ship left Northern Europe. Between spring and fall, Costa Deliziosa operated in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands and Black Sea. All cruises start from Savona. From January to April 2013, and in 2014, she undertook a 100-night world cruise. It was on this world cruise that the vessel rescued eight sailors whose boat had hit an unidentified object mid-Atlantic. The ship's course was altered to rescue the sailors, before it continued to Antigua.
From 2015, every summer she operates in the Eastern Mediterranean region and more specifically offers cruises to Greece and Croatia. In the winter, she does world cruises.
After not being allowed to have any passengers leave the ship when it arrived in Fremantle, Australia, Costa Deliziosa continued to Europe. On 20 April 183 passengers from the Iberian Peninsula and 112 from France left the vessel when it docked in Barcelona. No cases of COVID-19 had been reported to authorities as of that date. The Last Three Cruise Ships at Sea Are Finally Going Home New York Magazine 20 April 2020 The ship then headed to Genoa, with 1519 passengers and 898 crew members aboard, where it docked on 22 April 2020. It is likely that Costa Deliziosa was the penultimate cruise ship to unload all its passengers during the pandemic, with being the only ship left with passengers on board as of 21 April 2020.
Christening
Costa Deliziosa was ship christening at Port Rashid in the United Arab Emirates on 23 February, during her inaugural voyage, which started from Savona on 5 February; the first cruise ship in the world to be christened in an Arabian city. In deference to the Muslim faith of Dubai a bottle of special date juice was used rather than the traditional sparkling wine, champagne, or prosecco usually used to christen ships. The christening was planned to coincide with the opening ceremony for the new Port Rashid cruise ship terminal.
Ports of call
The ship spent the first part of her career operating on seven-day cruises in the Persian Gulf. During the northern summer, the ship relocated to Copenhagen, for seven-day cruises through the Baltic region.
Incidents
Coronavirus pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, on 3 April 2020, the ship was docked in Muscat, Oman with 1830 guests and 899 crew members; at that time, the company, Costa Crociere, was working to find a suitable port for the ship's final destination. The passengers and crew were observing social distancing and sanitation guidelines.
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The Costa Deliziosa (46733451301).jpg|''Costa Deliziosa'' at sunset at Grand Turk Island.
Cruise ship at Honningsvåg, near North Cape.jpg|''Costa Deliziosa'' anchoring at Honningsvåg, near North Cape.
Passanger ship in Helsinki harbour.jpg|''Costa Deliziosa'' in Helsinki Harbour.
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