Carnival Fantasy was a cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She was the first ship of fantasy class vessels. She was built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she was floated out on December 9, 1988, completed on January 27, 1990 and formally named on March 1, 1990, as Fantasy by Tellervo Koivisto, wife of the then President of Finland, Mauno Koivisto. During 2007, in common with all of her Fantasy-class sisters, she had the prefix "Carnival" added to her name.
In July 2020, Carnival Corporation & plc confirmed that it had sold Carnival Fantasy for scrap. She was beached in Aliağa, Turkey for scrap on July 29, 2020. A report on August 26, 2020 indicated that the scrapping process had begun. Scrapping was completed in September 2021.