Carnival’s Super Sale
On Saturday we posted prices for the Christmas season and noted that we haven’t seen the bottom.I believe it was Forbes magazine writer who suggested–don’t buy the cruise line stock, buy the cruise....
View ArticleJohn Heal is Big Big Big in so many ways
John Heald is a big man with a big personality and the owner of a very big blog: johnhealdsblog.com. Heald has been a Senior Cruise Director for the Carnival Cruise Lines for 18 years and began...
View ArticleCarnival offers “Your Choice Dining”
NCL started it, others followed, now Carnival has joined the flexible dining programs. It’s called “Your Choice Dining” and their rolling it out across the fleet in 2010. If you’ve sailed on...
View ArticleCarnival renovates–MSC pitches
Ships are expensive to build – a refurbishing puts them in tiptop condition, at a fraction of the price. The 2,052-passenger Carnival Ecstasy will undergo a refurbishment this fall that will include...
View ArticleDisney sailing to Alaska
We have learned that Disney is going to announce that they will be cruising to Alaska at a press conference scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow morning in Vancouver. Disney is more than doubling their...
View ArticleDisney takes on Alaska
Phil Reimer-Disney is watching carefully as Carnival’s mega ships Dream and Sensation and Royal Caribbean’s Freedom and Monarch of the Seas move to Port Canaveral (Orlando) this winter for short...
View ArticleFantasy to Charleston & Phil’s Pick
Phil Reimer–Here we are writing about Carnival two days in a row. In keeping with their corporate commitment to put ships all around the U.S., Carnival has announced that the 2000 passenger Carnival...
View ArticleAll the Carnival you can handle
This blog post belongs to Carnival. With me away down south on Holland America’s Zuiderdam, the press releases have been piling up and I’m about to do something about that. Carnival and their brands...
View ArticleCarnival moving ships
Phil Reimer — Carnival Cruise Lines‘ Elation took off on the first of its year-round cruises from Mobile on Saturday. The 2,000-passenger ship will operate 4, 5, and 7-day cruises out of the Alabama...
View ArticleSouthern charm for Carnival
Yesterday was a big day for Carnival Cruise Lines. The biggest cruise line in the world introduced the Carnival Fantasy to the city that oozes southern charm — Charleston. The Fantasy will be sailing...
View ArticleCarnival shorts the market
Carnival Destiny became part of a growing trend last weekend when Carnival assigned the ship to operate 4 and 5 day cruises from Miami. With the Destiny in place it now becomes the largest ship to...
View ArticleCarnival returns Puerto Maya-Phil’s Picks
It’s been three years, but Carnival Cruise Lines will do some celebrating when it re-opens its Puerto Maya pier and cruise centre in Cozumel next week. It was October 2005 when the port was hit hard...
View ArticleCruise views and news you can use
Air Canada executives must have taken no more than a couple of hours in deciding to follow WestJet and charge for the first bag. Cruisers who are heading away for a week or more almost certainly need a...
View ArticleFour new acts for Carnival Live series
The Band Perry, Boston, Lionel Richie, and Heart headline new acts that will be on board Carnival ships this summer and fall. As a test in 2014, Carnival Live started with a lot of successful acts from...
View ArticleWOW! Cruises and concerts from Carnival
This week’s deals are perfect if you’re interested in combining a cruise and a live concert. There are great offers combining Carnival and its extremely successful concert series, Carnival Live. I’ve...
View ArticleFall preview for Carnival Live concert series
Have you heard about the concert series on cruise ships known as Carnival Live? It’s easy. During your stay in a given port and on selected Carnival cruises, well-known performers from groups to single...
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