carnival cruise News

Dining has always been a highlight of the Carnival cruise holiday experience and the 130,000-ton Carnival Breeze will have a suitable choice of culinary discoveries when it embarks on its maiden journey on the 3rd of June 2012.

A number of exciting new entertainment and dining options, such as the free of charge Taste Bar starter programme, The George Lopez Punchliner Comedy Club and the George Lopez Punchliner Comedy Brunch will make their debut on board Carnival Miracle.

While Carnival Cruise Line will target the UK cruise market next year and also deploy two ships in Europe, this is not only because Europeans have started warming up to the brand, but also to fill a gap in the market that was created when Ocean Village ceased to operate.

Carnival Destiny is about to embark on a £100 million makeover programme so revolutionary that she will even receive a new name in the process: Carnival Sunshine.

To be honest, in the past Europe never figured very highly on Carnival’s radar. The company’s European schedule consisted pretty much of new ships. They were built in Europe and then launched in early summer, just in time for a couple of quick European cruises – after which they would cross the Atlantic and take up their position in the American Carnival fleet.

February is of course carnival time in Rio de Janeiro, with the largest street party in the world about to hit that city. Here in the United Kingdom we have news about a Carnival of a different nature: Carnival Cruise Lines has announced it will bring back a cruise liner to the UK in 2013. This will be the first time since 2008.

Carnival Cruise Lines has announced a number of exciting Panama Canal and South American itineraries for next year. These cruises were specifically designed to offer more memorable cruise options and fun in these popular cruise destinations.

The Alvin and the Chipmunks third movie, titled ChipWrecked, is possibly helping Carnival out for 2012. Fox and Carnival joined together in order to provide the film and advertise the cruise line. Carnival used one of their newest ships for the film. Carnival CMO stated they do not start a new year without a strategy.

If one looks at the increasing popularity of cruise holidays, you sometimes forget that it is also a very competitive industry and that it is not a given that cruise lines’ profit will keep on increasing.

The 2052-passenger Carnival Cruises ship Carnival Paradise has arrived in Tampa from where it will, in future, offer a year-round schedule of four and five-day cruises to the Western Caribbean. So if it is Paradise you are after, you know where to head for your next cruise.

Carnival Cruise Lines is on the verge of launching a major ad campaign in the UK market. The company’s new Managing Director, Adolfo Perez, recently talked to Lee Hayhurst of TravelWeekly about the cruise line’s other plans to improve its public profile.

Let’s face it: there are not many 4- and 5-day cruises to the Bahamas or the Caribbean. In fact there is only one company offering this option: Carnival Cruises. The company launched their Bahamas/Caribbean programme on Monday 7th November with the departure of Carnival Ecstasy from Port Canaveral.

If you have kids, you will already know that taking them on holiday is no cheap venture. Keeping them occupied for a week or two and paying for all the snacks and ice creams can make a serious dent in the family budget.

Carnival has signed an agreement with Grammy award winners Maroon 5, under the terms of which the band will perform at an exclusive concert to welcome the cruise line’s latest ‘Fun Ship’ when it arrives at its new home port of Galveston, Texas on Sunday 13th November 2011.

Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri has been commissioned to create a new informal dining venue for Carnival Cruise Lines, which will be known as Guy’s Burger Joint.

Carnival Cruise Lines has announced it is going to spend millions on a new programme called Fun Ship 2.0 that brings about a dramatic transformation in the way guests experience their cruise holidays.

When one watches the many cruise liners leaving Southampton packed with happy holidaymakers, one might easily make the mistake of thinking that the cruise lines are making a killing and that cruise prices are still way too expensive and should come down.

The legal technicalities in which our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic can sometimes embroil themselves in will never cease to amaze those of us on the eastern side of that ocean. As many of you probably know, Carnival Cruise Line is being sued by the Coastal Conservation League and the Charleston neighbourhoods.

Carnival Cruises has made some fun changes to the company’s Facebook page to inspire would-be cruise passengers to get in the Caribbean mindset. It also offers visitors a first peak at their new “Fun Ship” the Carnival Breeze.

Carnival Cruises has decided to move their cruise liner Carnival Spirit down under. From October 2012 it will be based in Sydney and specifically target New Zealand families.

Carnival has signed a new five-year contract with the Port of Baltimore and the company’s year-round cruises from this destination will continue unchanged. This move has been welcomed by Martin O’Malley, the Governor of Baltimore.

Life on board a cruise ship should be as close to heaven as one can get. There should be perpetual sunshine, no rain and certainly no strikes. While this is true in many cases, it will still sometimes rain, even on the deck of the most luxurious cruise ship. Once in a blue moon a strike will force your cruise liner off course and you will have to spend an extra day in a glorious city, such as Barcelona.

In exciting news for cruise lovers, Carnival has announced that the company has ordered three brand new cruise liners – two for AIDA Cruises and one for its Costa Cruises brand.

According to Carnival, their latest cruise liner is simply a ‘bundle of fun’. The company promises that Breeze’s 2012 season will be filled with more fun than ever before. The ship will depart on a series of cruises from Venice and Barcelona next year.

Carnival Cruise Line’s latest mini brochure for 2012 features no less than 13 summer cruises plying the waters of the Mediterranean on board their cruise ship Carnival Breeze.

A few weeks ago the bosses at Carnival were deeply embarrassed when their flagship Queen Mary 2 failed a health inspection. They are no doubt sniggering quietly today at the red faces over at Carnival Cruises.

Anyone who thought giant cruise liners do not have a heart was proven wrong on Monday night when the Carnival Magic with more than 4,500 passengers on board spent a full five hours in protecting a small motor yacht against the fury of the waves off the Spanish coast.

Carnival Cruises has become the first cruise line ever to achieve the historic milestone of reaching one million Facebook fans.

Carnival Cruise line had a very successful season in Europe during 2010 with its cruise ship the Carnival Magic. The company now hopes to build on this success with a new promotion that highlights its new ship Carnival Breeze.

Carnival Cruise Lines says that their cruise liner the Carnival Miracle will be based in New York from spring 2012 on a year-round basis.

Carnival Cruise Line has reason to be very happy. More reason than Cunard Line, who was highly embarrassed earlier this month when their flagship, the Queen Mary 2, failed a surprise health inspection in the port of New York.

Carnival Cruise lines has announced its first ever full year of New York departures for 2012. The company’s cruise ship the Carnival Miracle will embark on a range of different eight-day cruises to the Bahamas and the Caribbean from April 2012.

In what will no doubt be seen as bad news by smokers, Carnival Corporation has decided to issue a blanket ban against smoking in cabins on all cruise ships sailing under the Carnival Cruises, Princess Cruises and Holland America flags.

Cruise Lines apparently did not expect the tsunami in Japan and the “Arab Spring” uprisings to have a significant effect on their bookings. As the situation becomes clearer, it now seems the impact of these two unforeseen events was bigger than anticipated.

It is always somewhat of a problem for parents travelling with kids to have a night out on their own. If you are on a cruise ship the problem is even more severe: there is so much to do every night, but you cannot let the kids wander off on their own.

At the recent UK Cruise Convention David Dingle, the boss of Carnival UK, made it very clear to delegates that if profit margins in the cruise industry did not improve, they faced a dire future.

As far as Carnival Cruises are concerned, blue seems to be in and orange out. This at least is the conclusion one can draw from the first glimpses of the new cabin décor the cruise line plans for their next ship, the Carnival Breeze.

The hordes of U.S. reporters who were invited to attend the christening of Carnival Magic have so far been unusually quiet. In fact, very few of them have written anything about the event yet – and it is not because of the bank holidays either.

A new era of magic has dawned at Carnival Cruise Lines. Last week the company launched its 100th ship, the Carnival Magic. The ceremony took place at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, where the Magic was built. Carnival Cruise Lines is one of the brands of Carnival Corporation, which operates cruises globally.

Carnival Cruises’ latest addition, the Carnival Magic, will be launched on the 1st May. Last week the company invited a number of journalists for a sneak preview of the ship. The nearly completed Magic is currently in the Fincantieri shipyard at Monfalcone in the north of Italy.

The guys over at Carnival certainly love their market research. Not only do they request every cruise passenger to complete a questionnaire before the end of each cruise, but they also regularly carry out surveys with the help of students from Southampton Solent University.

According to Carnival Cruises, cruising is all about fun – something the company aims to give its cruise passengers this season. Their latest (and greatest) “fun ship” named Carnival Magic will start the fun when it is launched in May 2011.

The world of tipping can be a virtual minefield for cruise passengers. The situation is further complicated by the introduction of daily service charges on some cruise lines. For the moment this is largely limited to US cruise lines, but it will no doubt also spread to UK. shores.

Persistent rumours that the actress Lindsay Lohan will be launching Carnival’s latest cruise ship to rescue her sinking career seems to be nothing but rumours at this stage.