LATEST ENHANCEMENTS TO CARNIVAL’S FAMILY-FRIENDLY OFFERINGS
MIAMI (June 23, 2014) – With summer travel season in full swing,
Carnival Cruise Lines continues to enhance its family-friendly
offerings, introducing the new
Dr. Seuss Bookville family reading venue and Camp Ocean marine-themed
children’s program on Carnival Freedom, along with highly attractive
rates for families to make a summer cruise more affordable than ever.
Recently debuting on Carnival Freedom following a multi-million-dollar
makeover, Dr. Seuss Bookville and Camp Ocean featuring more than 200 new
ocean-inspired
activities are part of a fleetwide rollout of new children’s
programming designed to build upon Carnival’s position as the family
cruise leader. Carnival hosts more than 700,000 kids a year – the most
of any cruise operator and roughly double what the line
carried a decade ago.
And with rates starting as low as $279 per person for three- to
five-day cruises and $429 for voyages of six days or longer, along with
special discounts for third
and fourth guests in the same stateroom, there’s no better time for
families to take advantage of the incredible value of a Carnival cruise.
“Families are an important market to us and with these new
family-friendly enhancements, combined with highly attractive summer
rates, we’re making cruising on
Carnival an even greater value while providing kids and their parents
an opportunity to create a lifetime of vacation memories together,” said
Gerry Cahill, Carnival president and CEO. “Seuss at Sea and Camp Ocean
are not only wonderful additions to our top-rated
children’s programs but also provide our valued travel agent partners
with a highly effective tool for attracting more families to the ‘Fun
Ships,’ he added.
Exciting New Family-Friendly Spaces
Part
of an exclusive agreement with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Bookville
features iconic décor, colors, shapes and funky furniture inspired by
the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss.
Here, kids and their families can read beloved Dr. Seuss books or
stretch their imagination through fun activities such as arts and
crafts, toys and Dr. Seuss-inspired games. Bookville will also be
featured on the new Carnival Vista when it debuts in 2016.
Bookville
is part of Seuss at Sea, a fleetwide family, dining and entertainment
experience inspired by the amazing world of Dr. Seuss. The program also
includes the Green
Eggs and Ham Breakfast with the Cat in the Hat and Friends, an
interactive reading event called Seuss-a-palooza Story Time, and the
Seuss-a-palooza Character Parade along the ships’ promenade.
Camp
Ocean is a fun-filled new children’s program that immerses children
ages 2-11 in the wonders of the sea through fun and engaging
experiences, with underwater-colored
spaces and energetic, highly trained staff. Three age-related
categories each have their own identity: children ages 2-5 are dubbed
“Penguins,” those ages 6-8 are called “Stingrays” and 9-11-year-olds are
“Sharks.”
In
addition to fun new spaces – from miniature play igloos for the
Penguins to interactive gaming stations for the Sharks – Carnival
Freedom’s new Camp Ocean facility includes
Party Reef, a common area that brings each of the groups together, as
well as a breakout room for arts and crafts activities called Creative
Cove. Camp Ocean serves as the venue for a host of new activities,
from educational games such as Under the Sea Mad
Libs and Ocean Artifacts Memory Tray to creative arts opportunities
like Design Your Own Aquarium and Make Your Own Sailboat.
Additional Family-Friendly Features
Carnival’s
“Fun Ships” also offer a host of all-ages entertainment and activities –
from Hasbro, The Game Show, where guests are part of the show through
larger-than-life
adaptations of the company’s iconic and popular games to
family-friendly performances by hilarious comedians at the Punchliner
Comedy Club presented by George Lopez.
Every
Carnival ship also features an exhilarating water slide – with some
vessels boasting expansive water parks – as well as game rooms featuring
the latest video and arcade
games. Kid-friendly dining choices – from fleetwide 24-hour pizza and
ice cream to Guy’s Burger Joints developed in tandem with Food Network
Star Guy Fieri on select ships – are also available.
And when parents need a little “me” time, there’s the Serenity adults-only retreats featured on virtually every Carnival ship.
These
family friendly offerings are available throughout Carnival’s “Fun
Ship” fleet which this summer will offer a wide range of three- to
eight-day departures from a variety
of convenient homeports throughout North America. Carnival Freedom
currently operates five- to eight-day Caribbean cruises from Fort
Lauderdale then repositions to Galveston, Texas, for year-round
seven-day Caribbean departures beginning in February 2015.
Amenities
and facilities vary by ship with fleetwide implementation of Seuss at
Sea expected to be completed by 2015 and Camp Ocean by 2016. Rates are
based on interior staterooms
on select dates and are subject to change without notice.
For additional information, contact any travel agent, call 1-800-CARNIVAL or visit carnival.com.
Carnival can also be found on:
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/carnivalcruise
Facebook Fan Page:
www.facebook.com/carnival
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/carnival
About Carnival Cruise Lines
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 23-day voyages to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Tahiti. The company’s 25th ship, the 135,000-ton Carnival Vista, is scheduled to enter service in 2016.
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 23-day voyages to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Tahiti. The company’s 25th ship, the 135,000-ton Carnival Vista, is scheduled to enter service in 2016.
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