Thank you for the feedback on adding some new port options for our cruises from Jacksonville and New Orleans. For Jacksonville, we will review the Key West option and see if we can offer some cruises with this exciting destination. For New Orleans, we agree that Costa Maya may be a good opportunity. Later this year, they will finish adding some exciting new features including a spectacular water park and other amenities.
-Terry
We currently have 3 ships in Port Canaveral…Carnival Valor, Carnival Sunshine and Carnival Sensation. There are a variety of year-round 3 to 8 day cruises to choose from. We also have a special series of longer 9 to 13 day Carnival Journeys cruises from Port Canaveral that feature a variety of new destinations.
We are excited that Carnival Triumph will be moving to New Orleans next spring to allow us continue to build on our successful operation from the Big Easy.
Currently, there are no plans to adjust the deployment for the Carnival Spirit and Carnival Legend. These ships are performing very well in Australia and Alaska and the ships are perfectly suited from an operational standpoint to operate these unique itineraries.
Our Carnival Journeys program of longer cruises are also available on select sailings from Miami on the Carnival Glory. There are 10, 11 and 14 day options to exciting new destinations in the Southern Caribbean.
We agree that offering a 7 day option from Tampa again would be a great addition for us. We are reviewing options now to see if this can be possible in the future. Unfortunately, we are limited in the size of ships we can bring to Tampa given the constraint with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
-Terry
Thank you for the input and we agree that we need to find new itinerary options from New Orleans. In this situation, we combined the scheduled 3 day cruise-to-nowhere with a scheduled 5 day cruise. We wanted to offer an 8 day itinerary that would be attractive to offer to all the guests that were previously booked on the 5 day which was visiting only Mexican ports. The 5 day guests appreciated this opportunity and we were able to “save” their planned vacation. There are always trade offs in these decisions, but we really wanted to what was best for guests that had already booked their 5 day cruise.
-Terry
