Carnival Cruise Line is increasing at one East Coast port and can also be proposing to supply year-round cruises from the port.
Carnival Cruise Line is doubling the variety of cruises out of Norfolk, Virginia subsequent 12 months by extending sailings to a consecutive six-month interval from Might via October. The announcement is a primary step towards a proposed year-round cruise program from Norfolk beginning in 2025, because the cruise line and Metropolis of Norfolk leaders focus on essential terminal and port enhancements to assist an enlargement of operations.
With plans to welcome about 100,000 visitors subsequent 12 months, Carnival’s improve in operations will carry the very best quantity of cruise visitors within the historical past of Norfolk’s Half Moone Cruise Heart. The brand new 2023 choices go on sale right now and can embody 4 to 10 day cruises aboard Carnival Magic. Itineraries provided on the cruise ship embody Japanese Caribbean, The Bahamas, Bermuda, and Canada and New England.
“We’ve been working intently with Norfolk metropolis officers on this enlargement since our profitable restart earlier this 12 months and it’s nice to now share our plans with our visitors,” mentioned Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “We stay up for constructing on our 20-year dedication to this group and persevering with the momentum towards additional enlargement sooner or later, whereas growing our constructive financial impression in Norfolk.”
Carnival Cruise Line has been crusing from Norfolk since 2002 and Carnival Magic, which started crusing seasonally for the primary time in Might, turned the most important ship to embark visitors from the port, following enhancements to Norfolk’s Half Moone Cruise Heart.
Carnival Magic accommodates as much as 4,724 visitors and affords bow-to-stern enjoyable together with all kinds of stateroom lodging, a mess of eating choices, Carnival Cruise Line’s signature leisure, the Cloud 9 spa, water slides and the Serenity, adult-only retreat.
“For twenty years, Norfolk has valued its partnership with Carnival Cruise Line. Right this moment’s announcement is a major milestone for our cruise program and our group,” mentioned Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Alexander. “For a full six months subsequent 12 months, visitors from throughout the Mid-Atlantic may have the prospect to board a Carnival ship from Norfolk and starting in 2025, our collective purpose is for Carnival to set sail from Nauticus year-round”
Carnival Cruise Line’s plan to deploy Carnival Magic for an extended keep in Norfolk is a component of a bigger enlargement of the cruise line’s mid-Atlantic visitor operations.
In June of 2023, the cruise line will start providing year-round service from New York when the 5,260-passenger Costa Venezia joins the fleet as Carnival Venezia. It will permit Carnival Magic which has been splitting its spring/summer time season between New York and Norfolk, to stay in Norfolk for half the 12 months.
