UPDATE FRIDAY:Carnival finally came clean with it. Turns out Mobile will lose all ships as the Elation will head to NOLA and do what the Ecstasy was supposed to do. Port Canaveral beat Carnival to the punch by announcing that the current Galveston based Carnival Ecstasy will not head to NOLA as previously mentioned, but [...]

I should have noticed something was up today when I checked the Galveston cam and saw that the Ecstasy was in Galveston on a Friday. Being able to see the Ecstasy walking to class and around campus at my alma mater, every Saturday, Monday, or Thursday, you gets used to associating those days with that [...]

Carnival just announced that the Carnival Magic (sister to the Carnival Dream) will home port in my former hometown of Galveston in November 2011. She will be joined by the slightly smaller Carnival Triumph. The Magic will operate the 7-night routes and the Triumph will do the 4&5-Night routes. The current Galveston based ships, Conquest [...]