As it continues to offer guests more diversity in itinerary offerings, Carnival Cruise Line today announced the opening of a new transpacific Carnival Journeys cruise for 2025 on Carnival Luminosa. When the ship repositions from its Alaska season and returns to Australia, it will sail a 22-day voyage that visits breathtaking destinations, including Hawaii and several Read more
Carnival Firenze has officially joined the Carnival Cruise Line fleet from sister line Costa Cruises, growing the Carnival fleet to 27 ships. This morning in Cadiz, Spain, team members from both cruise lines met on the ship’s bridge to complete the handover. Now, Carnival’s team will lead a refurbishment project Read more
Carnival Jubilee, Carnival Cruise Line’s new flagship and the first brand-new cruise ship to debut in Galveston, is fixin’ to show its first guests some Texas-sized fun! The ship’s team welcomed its first guests, more than 6,000 people, on board this morning for an unforgettable inaugural cruise over the Christmas holiday. The ship’s Read more
Carnival Cruise Line today welcomed Carnival Jubilee, the third ship in its award-winning Excel-class, during a delivery event with ship builder Meyer Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany. As the 26th Fun Ship in the Carnival fleet, Carnival Jubilee begins its journey to Galveston, Tex. where it will bring added capacity and offer an exciting mix of new entertainment, Read more
Carnival Cruise Line, In partnership with local offices of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will honor hundreds of military heroes with a series of tributes on board six ships in six homeports during the week leading up to Veterans Day. The week-long series of events kicks off with dual tributes in Miami and Tampa on Read more
Once again sporting an iconic winged funnel, Carnival Freedom marked its return to service by welcoming guests on board in Barcelona, Spain for a 14-day transatlantic voyage to its homeport of Port Canaveral, Fla. The ship underwent an extensive refurbishment that included the installation of the new funnel, the addition Read more
Carnival Cruise Line hosted a special event aboard Carnival Celebration in Miami honored The Bahamas’ 50th Anniversary of Independence and recognized the strong partnership between Bahamian communities and Carnival Cruise Line. The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis and U.S. Rep. Federica Wilson, the founder of the Florida Ports Caucus, and honorary Read more
Carnival Cruise Line opened for sale approximately 400 cruises that will bring guests to Celebration Key™, its new exclusive cruise port destination in The Bahamas, beginning with the first calls in July 2025. Starting today, guests can book cruises on the first 12 Carnival ships, sailing regularly from eight homeports, Read more
Carnival Cruise Line will deploy the 2,124 passenger Carnival Legend to continue its seasonal offerings from San Francisco in 2025, offering alternating 10-day Alaska cruises and four-day Baja Mexico sailings. In addition, Carnival Legend will sail two Carnival Journeys cruises – a 14-day Panama Canal transit taking guests from Tampa, Read more
A new pilot program is introducing closed-loop packaging to the cruise industry aboard Carnival Cruise Line ships through a collaboration that includes leading family-owned spirits company Bacardi and innovative circular economy technology company ecoSPIRITS. The pilot will determine if re-usable containers developed by ecoSPIRITS can be used to serve BACARDĺ® rum Read more
Carnival Cruise Line Names Kyndall “Fire” Magyar New Ship’s Cruise Director and Matthew Boyd to Serve as Entertainment Director As excitement builds around the arrival of Carnival Cruise Line’s next new ship, Carnival Jubilee, the cruise line today announced Matthew Boyd will serve as Entertainment Director and Kyndall “Fire” Magyar as Cruise Read more
July 22, 2023 Carnival Brings ‘Texas Tailgate’ to German Shipyard to Usher Ship’s Next Phase in Construction Carnival Cruise Line’s next new ship, Carnival Jubilee, marked a key construction milestone as it floated out of the covered building dock at Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany and revealed an important feature of Read more