Cruises to Cuba are hotter than ever and Carnival Cruise Line keeps adding itineraries to meet demand. Today the line announced an additional 20 have been added for 2019 aboard the Carnival Paradise which sails from Tampa, FL. The line already has 11 scheduled from now through the end of…
Back in 2012, a 9-year-old kid by the name of Darian Lipscomb, a self-proclaimed Carnival Cruise Line "super fan," created a Snapchat account with the handle "CarnivalCruise." His Snapchat story featured snippets of his vacations on Carnival cruise ships. Fast forward to 2018 when Carnival showed up in Lipscomb's hometown of Prospect,…
The Carnival Cruise Line fleet now numbers 26 ships following the delivery of the new Carnival Horizon on March 28, 2018, from the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy. [caption id="attachment_12744" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Carnival Horizon. Photo credit: Carnival Cruise Line[/caption] Built to accommodate 3,954 passengers, Carnival Horizon offers cruises unique entertainment and activities including: Dr.…
For the first time ever, Carnival Cruise Line will begin offering cruises to Cuba from Miami begining in 2019. The announcement comes after the line saw "exceptional guest response" to cruises to Cuba from Tampa. The first cruise sailed last month, and two others are scheduled for July and September…
If there was an "Extreme Makeover" television show for cruise ships, the 1998 built Carnival Paradise would be starring in the latest episode. [caption id="attachment_10506" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Carnival Paradise and Carnival Elation in port at Cozumel[/caption] The history of the ship is interesting. Carnival Paradise was built as the cruise…
Carnival Cruise Line has two Vista-class cruise ships coming out in the next two years. The first in the class, Carnival Vista was launched in 2016 and is currently the newest ship in the fleet. Carnival Vista carries 3,936 passengers and currently calls Galveston, TX home where she sails a…
One of the oldest ships in the Carnival Cruise Line fleet is set to emerge from a multi-million-dollar cruise ship makeover. Jacksonville, FL based Carnival Elation will soon return to her home-port with several new features including additional staterooms. [caption id="attachment_12176" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Carnival Elation in Grand Turk. Photo Credit: Carnival…
Cruisers on Florida’s west coast will get additional opportunities to visit the land that time forgot in 2018 thanks to Carnival Cruise Line adding additional cruises to Cuba from Tampa. The Carnival Paradise will sail three five-days cruises to Havana and Cozumel or Key West on February 17, July 2…
Carnival Corporation's fathom line, which offered people-to-people cruises to the Dominican Republic and more recently Cuba, will see soon its final sailings. As I and many others have predicted, the concept of taking a vacation to do humanitarian aid in underdeveloped counties wasn't what cruise goers wanted to do on…
Whenever I'm boarding a cruise ship, there is one thing I always see that leaves me scratching my head. No it's not the passengers who are unloading more suitcases for a seven day eastern Caribbean cruise than they would pack for six months in Rome. It's the ones who are…
