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Carnival Cruise Line Adds Longer 10- 14-Days Voyages

Carnival will visit Antigua on longer cruises.
One of 365 beautiful beaches on the island of Antigua, in the West Indies.

Longer cruises mean new ports, less kids and more fun.

That’s my opinion, anyway. I love longer cruises. With so many unique and fabulous new specialty restaurants to experience, it’s impossible to try all of them on a 7-night cruise. New ports are certainly enticing to those of us who’ve been there, done that for the last umpteen years.

Beginning October 2105 and continuing into February 2016, Carnival will add new, longer 10- to 14-day voyages that depart from seven U.S. homeports on the east and west coasts and the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven different voyages will visit destinations throughout the Caribbean, Bermuda and the Mexican Riviera.

Carnival Sunshine sailaway from Port Canaveral
Carnival Sunshine sailaway from Port Canaveral.

The ships include the Carnival Miracle from Los Angeles, Carnival Dream leaves from  New Orleans, Carnival Glory from both Miami and San Juan, and the Carnival Sunshine departing from Port Canaveral. These new voyages are in addition to a previously announced series of nine 10- to 14-day departures to the Caribbean and Bermuda offered on Carnival Triumph from Galveston and Carnival Pride from Baltimore in 2015-16.

Altogether, these six ships will visit more than two dozen tropical destinations, including less traveled ports like Bonaire, Martinique, Dominica, Grenada. A maiden call will occur when the Carnival Sunshine visits Tobago for the first time.

“Based on feedback from our guests and travel agent partners, we’re delighted to offer these longer length voyages which provide vacationers an opportunity to visit some of the world’s most breathtaking destinations while enjoying all the wonderful on-board innovations and features found aboard Carnival’s ships,” said Terry Thornton, Carnival’s senior vice president of itinerary planning.

The new voyages include:

The Atrium Lobby aboard the Carnival Dream is a great place to people-watch.
The Atrium Lobby aboard the Carnival Dream is a great place to have a drink, listen to live music and relax.

Carnival Miracle

  • Jan. 31- Feb. 12, 2015:  13-day Mexican Riviera voyage round-trip from Long Beach, Calif., calling at Cabo San Lucas (two-day call), La Paz, Mazatlán, Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa, Manzanillo, and Puerto Vallarta (overnight call).

Carnival Dream

  • Oct. 4-15, 2015: 11-day Caribbean/Bermuda cruise from New Orleans to San Juan featuring Nassau, King’s Wharf, Bermuda (overnight call), St. Maarten and St. Thomas.
  • Oct. 15-25, 2015: 10-day Caribbean cruise from San Juan to New Orleans with calls at St. Thomas, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, Grand Turk, and Falmouth, Jamaica (the above two cruises can be combined to create a 21-day round-trip voyage from New Orleans).
  • Jan. 3-14, 2016:  11-day southern Caribbean cruise from New Orleans to San Juan with stops at Grand Turk, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Kitts, Antigua and St. Maarten.
  • Jan. 14-25, 2016: a 10-day Caribbean cruise from San Juan to New Orleans calling at St. Thomas, Dominica, St. Kitts, Grand Turk and Falmouth (the above two cruises can be combined to create a 21-day round-trip voyage from New Orleans). 

Carnival Glory

  • Oct. 31–Nov. 13, 2015: 14-day Caribbean cruise round-trip from Miami visiting Aruba, Bonaire, Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Thomas and St. Maarten.
  • Jan. 23-Feb. 2, 2016: 10-day cruise from Miami to San Juan calling at the private Bahamian island of Half Moon Cay, Grand Turk, Antigua, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and St. Thomas.
  • Feb. 2-13, 2016: 11-day cruise from San Juan to Miami visiting St. Croix, St. Maarten, Dominica, Grenada, Bonaire, Aruba, and Curacao (the above two cruises can be combined to create a 21-day round-trip voyage from Miami). 

Carnival Sunshine

  • Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2015: 11-day Caribbean/Bahamas voyage from Port Canaveral, Fla., to San Juan visiting Grand Turk, St. Thomas, Tortola, St. Kitts, Dominica, St. Lucia, Antigua and St. Croix.
  • Dec. 9-19, 2015: 10-day Caribbean cruise from San Juan to Port Canaveral featuring St. Thomas, Antigua, Dominica, Martinique, St. Croix, and Grand Turk (the above two cruises can be combined to create a 21-day voyage round-trip from Port Canaveral).
  • Feb. 21-March 5, 2016: 13-day southern Caribbean cruise round-trip from Port Canaveral calling at St. Maarten, Dominica, Barbados, Scarborough (Trinidad & Tobago), Grenada, Martinique, St. Kitts and St. Thomas.

Reservations are being taken for all of these new, longer cruises. Click the ship’s links above for more information. Don’t wait too long to book, especially if you have a stateroom or deck location preference.

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