While the 130,000-ton, 4300-passenger  Carnival Magic is a sister ship of Carnival Dream, when she enters service in May, 2011 cruisers will find innovative features including a pub serving the cruise line’s private label beer, Thirsty Frog Red.   Additional new facilities and services include an authentic Italian trattoria and additional sports activities such as rope [...]

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Well, actually they’re probably not the best cruise articles, but they sure are interesting
*** Whether you’re a liberal or conservative, there’s a theme cruise where you can get the chance to chat with stars ranging from Karl Rove to Robert Kennedy Jr.   For the inside scope, go to The Politics of Cruising
*** There’s [...]

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If you like to LOL, you may want to check out Carnival Cruise Lines’ announcement that it is adding “Punchliner Comedy Clubs” to all 22 ships in the fleet.   The dedicated comedy clubs will feature five 35-minute shows on multiple nights during each cruise
with at least two comedians performing each night.
The two early-evening shows [...]

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*** More Bogus Cruise Ship Art? If you’ve been following the ongoing legal problems of Park West, the company which operates the ubiquitous art auctions on cruise ships, Gene Sloan reports the most recent problem in USA Today.  A Chilean artist is suing Park West alleging the company is printing and selling copies of [...]

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Carnival Cruise Lines is hosting a  “1-2-3 Go! Sale” which combines three of the line’s most popular sales incentives – Cash Back of up to $160 per stateroom, best available upgrades and attractive “Fun Select” rates – to provide unprecedented value to consumers.
The promotion is available on a wide variety of three- to eight-day “Fun [...]

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Finally, the cruise industry has its own version of the Daily Show.
One of the best parts of my week is watching industry cruise news at a new YouTube channel, Cruisenow Cruise Channel, for a humorous update on what the various cruise lines are up to.
Click here to check out this week’s show.
Created and hosted [...]

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Carnival Cruise Lines has announced that the third in the Dream class ships will be named Carnival Breeze.  Scheduled to enter service in spring, 2012 the vessel will boast a 300-foot-long corkscrew water slide, a lanai deck area expanded over the sides of the ship, an adults-only deck area, expansive facilities for kids and teens [...]

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Carnival Cruise Lines will expand its Bermuda cruise schedule in 2011 offering 16 departures to the island from four eastern U.S. home ports.  Prior to this the cruise line’s  New York-based ships called in Bermuda for one day on longer Caribbean itineraries.
Sailing from Baltimore; Norfolk, Va; New York and Charleston S.C., Carnival’s ships will visit  [...]

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Until now you had to sail on a small luxury ship to stay overnight in a port of call.   But now Carnival Spirit will spend two days and one night in Cabo San Lucas during five- and nine-day sailings from San Diego.
Beginning December 10, 2010,  Carnival Spirit will begin sailing on the new itinerary which [...]

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Royal Caribbean today announced that it will add an 11th ship to the 2011 Europe season.   Mariner of the Seas will homeport in Rome (port of Civitavecchia) from March through October, 2011. Previously the ship sailed year-round from the Port of Los Angeles on one-week Mexican Riviera sailings.
On January 16, 2011, Mariner of the Seas [...]

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