CIN: Three New Ships for Port of New Orleans Ummm….You do realize that the Carnival Conquest sailed out of New Orleans when she was first lunched in 2002. She sailed there until Katrina displaced her to Galveston in 2005.

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 [...]

The first hurricane in the 2010 Atlantic season has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Due to the location of the storm in the gulf, no ships will have issues with ports. Carnival’s vessels sailing in/out of Galveston and New Orleans may have a bumpy ride though. Texas is starting to feel the effects of [...]

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 [...]