Carnival Cruise Line has enhanced its pay-over-time program to allow payments in convenient monthly installments leading to the departure date.  Announced in June, EasyPay is a hassle-free vacation payment option allowing guests’ cruise payments to be automatically deducted from the credit card on file and applied to their current balance interest-free.
With the new monthly payment feature, guests can extend their payment on a monthly basis based on the number of months prior to sailing (for instance, if the final payment date is six months away, guests will make six equal …

 
For the sixth consecutive year, Carnival Cruise Line participated in the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, raising more than $300,000 for the hospital this year during the holiday.
During St. Jude Thanks and Giving, Carnival guests could donate to St. Jude via their Sail & Sign shipboard accounts. Throughout the year, guests continue to support St. Jude in a variety of Care to Play activities designed to raise funds and awareness for the fight against childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Carnival Cruise Line is the hospital’s …

 
New Orleans Saints quarterback Chase Daniel personally delivered a holiday surprise – a free Carnival cruise – to Valerie Ronco of Mandeville, La., as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by Carnival Cruise Line and supporting the Brees Dream Foundation.
The sweepstakes awards a different lucky fan a free cruise each time the Saints pass for more than 300 yards in a game during the 2017 season.  With two games left, fans can still register at www.carnival.com/saints to be automatically entered into the promotion which runs for the entire 2017 regular season.
The contest is …

 
Carnival Cruise Line earned “Best Domestic Cruise Line” and “Best Travel Agency Training Program” honors at the 15th annual Travel Weekly Readers Choice Awards which were presented last night in New York. This is the second year in the row the line earned the ‘Best Domestic Cruise Line’ award.
The awards recognize travel industry suppliers who led the way in product and service during the past year.   Travel Weekly readers were invited to write in the names of any company they believed best exemplified that particular category, with Carnival receiving more …

 
With winter approaching, now is the time for consumers to start thinking about an escape from the cold and begin planning their next Caribbean vacation.
To celebrate the Caribbean’s stunning island destinations and promote the launch of its newest ship, Carnival Horizon, Carnival Cruise Line captured and canned real island air from tropical ports of call and invited New Yorkers to stop and smell the tropics with a truly unique and “scent-sational” experience that took place in Manhattan’s Greeley Square Park.
Carnival brought the magic of a Caribbean cruise to the mainland …

Carnival Cruise Line received “Best Value for the Money” and “Best Service” honors in Cruise Critic’s annual Editors’ Picks Awards which are selected by a panel of editors at the popular cruise-oriented web community.  This marks the fourth consecutive year that Carnival has been recognized as “Best Value for the Money.”
Carnival has consistently won top honors in the Best Value category for providing a vacation experience that exceeds guests’ expectations while providing superior affordability.  Many of the line’s offerings – from Guy’s Burger Joint developed in tandem with Food Network …

Carnival Cruise Line will position a newer, larger ship to Charleston when the 3,002-passenger Carnival Sunshine kicks off a year-round schedule of four- and five-day cruises in May 2019.
Carnival Sunshine provides an exciting new vacation choice from Charleston and features one of the widest arrays of food, beverage and entertainment options within the Carnival fleet, including spectacular open-air attractions like the WaterWorks aqua park and SportSquare recreation area, a stunning three-deck-high adults-only retreat featuring a waterfall and adjoining pool, several specialty restaurants and more than 550 staterooms with private balconies.
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For the second year in a row, Carnival Cruise Line earned ‘2017 Best Mainstream Cruise Line’ honors in the annual Cruise Fever Fan Awards, in which readers of the site are asked to rate cruise lines in a number of categories.  After the votes were tallied, Carnival Cruise Line received more votes than any other cruise operator in the Best Mainstream Cruise Line category.
Carnival Cruise Line enjoyed a successful and memorable 2017 highlighted by the line’s first-ever voyages to Cuba aboard Carnival Paradise as well as the continued rollout of …

 
Carnival Cruise Line returned to San Juan when the 110,000-ton Carnival Conquest arrived at the historic Puerto Rican capital earlier today.   This marks the first of dozens of port of call visits to the island destination by Carnival Cruise Line ships in the coming weeks.
Carnival will resume sailing from San Juan as an embarkation port when the Carnival Fascination begins year-round seven-day Southern Caribbean schedule Feb. 18.  Carnival Fascination is currently being chartered to FEMA to house relief workers in St. Croix.
During today’s call in San Juan by the Carnival …

 
As part of its ongoing effort to keep its culinary offerings fresh and exciting for its guests, Carnival Cruise Line is revamping the menus for several of its specialty dining venues and reintroducing Baked Alaska across the fleet.
The menus for Carnival’s steakhouses, Cucina del Capitano family-style Italian restaurants, and delis, as well as main dining room breakfast offerings, have undergone a transformation with a variety of tantalizing new items reflecting lighter ingredients, updated preparation techniques and exquisite presentation to keep pace with changing palates.
Baked Alaska – a classic dessert made …