Gold Rock Beach. The Goombay Summer Festival. The shopping in Port Lucaya. The food at Flying Fish. The island of Grand Bahama, just over 60 miles from Palm Beach, is filled with must-see and must-do attractions. But since Hurricane Dorian […]
The Caribbean tourism industry has rebounded spectacularly from the pandemic – and so, too has the cruise sector. Plainly, Caribbean cruises are back in a big way, according to travel agents. More cruise ships, some larger, are sailing, operating at […]
St Maarten’s cruise rebirth is going strong, with more and more new calls to the island’s port. That includes five inaugural port calls in the last month, including two so far in January: AIDAbella and Celebrity Apex, which both visited […]
Princess Cruises has returned to the Port of Galveston in Texas. The cruise line, part of the Carnival portfolio, has resumed sailing Caribbean cruises from Texas for the first time since 2016. The brand’s Ruby Princess ship is sailing a […]
Carnival Cruise Line’s new flagship has kicked off its first-ever sailing to the Caribbean. The new 6,000-guest cruise ship made its first stop in Grand Turk on a Thanksgiving-week cruise. That was followed by stops at the Dominican Republic’s Amber […]
Carnival Cruise Line has welcomed more than three million passengers since its July 2021 restart, the company said this week. The news comes after what Carnival said was the “biggest booking week” in the cruise line’s 50-year history this past […]
Carnival Cruise Line is bringing two of Costa Cruises’ ships to the United States next year, Caribbean Journal has learned. The plan is for a new concept called “Costa by Carnival,” which will see ships sailing from New York and […]
Carnival Cruise Line is set to relaunch its Caribbean cruise operations out of New York’s Manhattan Cruise Terminal. The company’s Carnival Magic cruise ship officially arrived in New York this week, with an initial four-day cruise to Bermuda. That will […]
Carnival Cruise Line has now topped two million cruise passengers since restarting operations in July of last year. The company reached the milestone this week with a sailing on Carnival Freedom out of Port Canaveral, Fla. Carnival says its guests […]
A significant new cruise port project has broken ground on the island of Grand Bahama. Carnival Cruise Line’s new port will include a pier able to accommodate up to two of Carnivals’ Excel-class ships simultaneously. The cruise port itself will […]
Carnival Cruise Line has restarted another new ship in 2022, Caribbean Journal has learned. The brand has relaunched Carnival Paradise, the 22nd Carnival ship to return since the restart of the cruise industry last year. Carnival Paradise is now operating […]
Carnival Cruise Line has cut the first steel on its newest cruise ship: Carnival Jubilee. The new ship, which is being built at Meyer Werft in Papenberg, Germany, is slated to debut in November 2023 in Galveston, Tex. The news […]
Princess Cruises has named the company’s first-ever “head of culinary arts” the cruise line announced this week. The company has tapped Chef Rudi Sodamin for the role, in which he will “bring an entirely new level of excellence and innovation […]
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