Prior to the start-up of its new Mobile-based program, Carnival Elation will sail on a 15-day Panama Canal cruise departing from San Diego April 30. Carnival Fantasy is currently based in New Orleans and is scheduled to transfer to Mobile for a program of four- and five-day cruises that will operate from that port from Nov. Five-day voyages departing Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will call at Nassau and Freeport, The Bahamas. On its new Charleston-based program, Carnival Fantasy will operate five-, six- and seven-day voyages on a variety of departure days beginning May 18, 2010. The new year-round departures from Charleston dramatically expand upon Carnival’s decade-long relationship with the port. Including Charleston, Carnival Cruise Lines will operate from 20 North American homeports in 2010, with 12 year-round departure points – the most in cruising. On Carnival Fantasy’s new Charleston-based cruises, Carnival is expected to carry more than 140,000 passengers annually from the port. Carnival Fantasy will operate five-, six- and seven-day voyages to The Bahamas and Key West, Fla., from the Passenger Terminal in historic downtown Charleston beginning May 18, 2010. Carnival Victory will operate a special seven-night cruise that will depart from Port Canaveral, Fla., Oct. En route to their new homeports, Carnival Fascination and Carnival Victory will offer exciting seven- and eight-night Caribbean cruises, respectively, departing in October 2016. Keeping in pace, the Carnival Fantasy, currently in Charleston, will shift to Miami for three- and four-night cruise schedules beginning Feb.22, 2016. Also on the move in November 2016, the Carnival Victory will leave Port Canaveral and relocate to San Juan. The Carnival Ecstasy experienced a Fun Ship 2.0 refurbishment in 2014 and added the WaterWorks aqua park featuring a 300-foot-long water slide, a Serenity adults-only retreat and pool, over 150 staterooms and suites with private balconies. If you want an even longer cruise, there will be a choice of two seven-night cruises that visit Grand Turk, Half Moon Cay and Nassau or Amber Cove (Carnival’s newest port in the Dominican Republic), Grand Turk and Half Moon Cay. Looking for more time your cruise vacation, there’ll be three six-day cruises that call on Freeport, Nassau and Half Moon Cay. For us east-coasters, it’s great news to learn that the Carnival Ecstasy will head for Charleston in February 2016.
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