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.

[5][6][7] The christening was planned to coincide with the opening ceremony for the new Port Rashid cruise ship terminal.

[9] 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.

It was on this world cruise that the vessel rescued eight sailors whose boat had hit an unidentified object mid-Atlantic.

[10] From 2015, every summer she operates in the Eastern Mediterranean region and more specifically she offers cruises to Greece and Croatia.

[12] 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.