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Carnival resumes single price for beverage package

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By Tom Stieghorst
Carnival Cruise Lines has resumed charging a single price for its all-inclusive beverage package, after experimenting with a variable price system.

Starting Oct. 25, the price for the “Cheers!” package became $49.95 per person, per day, for cruises of all lengths.

In August, Carnival began testing a system in which Cheers! cost more on short cruises. Earlier this year, Carnival expanded the package to three-day cruises, for which it hadn’t previously been available.

Under that concept, Cheers! cost $55 per person, per day on a three-day cruise, $45 on a four-day cruise, $42.50 on a five- or six-day cruise and $37.50 on a seven or eight-day cruises.

The package provides flat-rate daily pricing for alcoholic drinks, nonalcoholic frozen drinks, wine by the glass and soda. Drinks $10 or less are covered and there is a limit of 15 alcoholic drinks per day.

Ideal Carnival Vista destinations

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Ideal Carnival Vista destinations

With more than two years to go until the energy-efficient Carnival Cruise Line’s new ship, the Vista enters service; the news on her progress has been rather thin on the ground. We know her first steel was cut earlier this year, although her Keel is yet to be laid. Seeing as though the Carnival Vista progress is still in the early stages, there is not much news about.

Having said that, it does not stop cruise lovers from contemplating the ideal Carnival Vista destinations. There will be websites out there that come up with misleading titles suggesting they already know the Carnival Vista itinerary, along with her inaugural cruise, but none of this information has been made available, and so do not pay any attention to these.

We would like to know where it is you would prefer to go on the Vista, this could be a current destination, or if you would like Carnival to add a new one?

The usual suspects would be to choose anywhere in Alaska, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Caribbean Eastern, Caribbean Southern, Caribbean Western, Eastern Seaboard, Hawaii, and Mexico.

However, would you like to see Carnival Cruise Line reach out to another region, the thought of Carnival Vista Mediterranean cruises for 2016 – 2017 does sound appealing?

Galveston deems Carnival passenger no public health threat

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By Tom Stieghorst
The Galveston Public Health Authority said it has reviewed all available information regarding a potential Ebola contact voluntarily isolated on a Carnival Cruise Lines ship returning to the Port of Galveston.

In a statement posted on its website, the authority said it has concluded there is no evidence of a public health threat to cruise ship passengers or Galveston County from the passenger.

The Carnival Magic returned to Galveston on Oct. 19 after a seven-night cruise. The passenger in question worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital as a lab supervisor where she handled test samples from a patient who died from Ebola infection.

She was voluntarily isolated on the ship after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed Carnival of her status on Oct. 15. Authorities in Belize declined to let the supervisor and a traveling companion off the ship to be flown back to the U.S. Carnival skipped a subsequent port of call in Cozumel after delays in getting clearance to dock.

The Galveston health agency said upon Carnival Magic’s arrival the passenger and her travel partner were allowed to disembark without restrictions.

The agency said its assessment was based on the fact that the person was confirmed to have remained asymptomatic. Also, a blood sample obtained from the woman on Oct. 18 and flown for screening by the Department of State Health Services lab tested negative for Ebola.

Carnival said the Magic is expected to depart as normal on its next scheduled cruise.