Carnival delivers 6,000 guests to Melbourne Cup

A white rose in front of the Flemington Racecourse entry sign in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Carnival Australia has delivered thousands of guests to the Melbourne Cup in preparation for the big race.

Three Carnival Australia-brand ships today delivered 6,000 guests to the Melbourne Cup on cruises featuring body positive model Fiona Falkiner, media personality Deborah Hutton and two Melbourne Cup-winning jockeys, Jim Cassidy and John Letts, among others.

Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Spirit sailed in from Sydney with P&O Cruises’ Pacific Explorer and Pacific Dawn, arriving from Sydney and Brisbane respectively.

The ships arrived with the biggest contingent of interstate visitors to the Melbourne Cup, as P&O marked 2019 as its 50th anniversary cruise to the event.

Carnival Spirit and Pacific Explorer

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