Carnival Splendor to to offer six- and eight-day Caribbean cruises from Miami beginning May 2016
MIAMI
(June 16, 2015) – Carnival Cruise Line today announced deployment
changes designed to enhance its leadership position in two key homeports
– Galveston and Port Canaveral,
Fla., – while providing exciting “Fun Ship” itinerary choices in time
for next summer’s cruise season.
Carnival
Breeze will reposition to Galveston in May 2016 and Carnival Magic to
Port Canaveral in April 2016, several months earlier than previously
announced. Carnival Breeze
will assume Carnival Magic’s year-round schedule of seven-day day
Galveston cruises beginning May 8, 2016.
Carnival Magic will take over
Carnival Valor’s current seven-day day Port Canaveral cruise program
April 23, 2016.
In
turn, Carnival Splendor will assume Carnival Breeze’s six- and
eight-day Caribbean schedule from Miami May 1, 2016. Carnival Valor
will offer a new series of five- and
eight-day departures from Port Canaveral beginning June 4, 2016 instead
of October 2016 as previously announced.
“Galveston
and Port Canaveral are two important markets for ‘Fun Ship’ cruising
and these deployment changes provide our guests and travel agent
partners with exciting new
options featuring a variety of on-board innovations and visiting top
destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Bahamas and Florida,” said
Christine Duffy, Carnival’s president.
Carnival Breeze to Launch Year-Round Service from Galveston in May 2016
Carnival
Breeze will kick off its new Galveston-based cruise program May 8,
2016, departing every Sunday on three different week-long itineraries:
western Caribbean cruises
calling at either Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, or Belize,
Mahogany Bay (Isla Roatan) and Cozumel, and a seven-day Bahamas/Florida
route with stops in Nassau, Freeport, and Key West.
The
line’s newest ship, Carnival Breeze offers such innovations as a
multi-dimensional cinema experience called Thrill Theater, the Bonsai
Sushi full-service Asian restaurant
and WaterWorks, an aqua park that includes a 312-foot-long slide, a
150-gallon PowerDrencher tipping bucket, the DrainPipe funnel-style
attraction and a splash area for younger cruisers.
Carnival
Breeze, originally scheduled to reposition to Galveston in December
2016, replaces Carnival Magic which will reposition to Port Canaveral in
April 2016.
Carnival Magic to Sail Seven-day Cruises from Port Canaveral in April 2016
Carnival Magic will reposition to Port Canaveral to operate seven-day Caribbean cruises beginning April 23, 2016.
Carnival
Magic will offer two distinctly different week-long itineraries from
the Space Coast – a western Caribbean route featuring Cozumel, Belize,
Mahogany Bay (Isla Roatan)
and Costa Maya; and an eastern Caribbean option calling at St. Thomas,
San Juan, Grand Turk and Nassau or Amber Cove. Prior to launching its
new seven-day schedule from Port Canaveral, Carnival Magic will operate a
special three-day cruise to Nassau April
20-23, 2016.
Carnival
Magic was the first cruise ship to feature a suspended ropes course,
part of an expansive open-air recreation area called SportSquare, as
well as the Cucina del Capitano
Italian family-style restaurant and the RedFrog Pub, a
Caribbean-inspired watering hole serving the line’s private label
draught brew, ThirstyFrog Red.
Carnival Magic’s previously announced schedule from Port Canaveral was scheduled to begin in December 2016.
Carnival Splendor to Offer Six- and Eight-Day Cruises from Miami in May 2016
Carnival
Splendor will launch six- and eight-day Caribbean cruises from Miami
May 1, 2016, departing alternating Saturdays and Sundays.
The
schedule, which runs through December 2016, includes eight-day southern
Caribbean cruises featuring Grand Turk, La Romana (Dominican Republic),
Curaçao, and Aruba, along
with eight-day eastern Caribbean departures visiting Grand Turk, San
Juan, St. Kitts, and St. Maarten. Carnival Splendor will also offer a
three-port, six-day option featuring Grand Cayman, Cozumel and Ocho
Rios.
Carnival
Splendor will offer a nine-day Carnival Journeys cruise round-trip from
Miami departing May 26, 2016, and featuring an overnight call in King’s
Wharf, Bermuda, as
well as visits to Amber Cove (Dominican Republic) and Grand Turk. A
number of special on-board activities and programming are planned, as
well.
The
113,300-ton Carnival Splendor boasts on-board features like a
21,000-square-foot Cloud 9 Spa featuring a thalassotherapy pool and
thermal suite, a retractable dome covering
the mid-ship pool, and a classic American steakhouse serving prime
steaks and other gourmet cuisine.
Carnival Valor to Offer Three- to Eight-day Cruises from Port Canaveral in May 2016
Carnival
Valor will offer a new short cruise schedule from the Space Coast in
May 2016 before launching year-round five- and eight-day departures in
June 2016.
Three-
to five-day sailings will take place throughout May and visit such
popular ports as Grand Turk, Nassau, Freeport, and Amber Cove. The ship
will also offer a one-time
six-day cruise departing May 15 and featuring Nassau, Amber Cove and
Grand Turk.
Carnival
Valor’s year-round five- to eight-day voyages begin June 4, 2016.
Five-day cruises will visit Nassau, Half Moon Cay and Freeport.
Eight-day eastern Caribbean cruises
will call at Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Kitts and St. Maarten; while
eight-day southern Caribbean sailings will include Curaçao or Bonaire,
Aruba and Grand Turk.
Carnival
Valor is currently based in Port Canaveral and scheduled to undergo an
extensive dry dock in spring 2016 that will add a variety of Fun Ship
2.0 innovations.
Additional Information and Reservations
Reservations
are being accepted for all of these new itineraries for Carnival
Breeze, Carnival Magic, Carnival Splendor and Carnival Valor.
For
additional information and reservations, call 1-800-327-9501
(individual) or 1-800-327-5782 (groups) or visit the line’s travel agent
Internet portal, GoCCL.com.
Carnival can also be found on:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/carnivalcruise
Facebook Fan Page:
www.facebook.com/carnival
YouTube: www.youtube.com/carnival
Instagram: www.instagram.com/carnival
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About Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival, a unit of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:
CUK),
is "The World's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 24 ships operating
three- to 16-day voyages to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera,
Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Europe, Australia, New
Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The company currently
has two 133,500-ton ships on order - Carnival Vista, scheduled to enter
service in 2016, and an as-yet-unnamed vessel set to debut in 2018.
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