Carnival Cruise Line Will Join the Crowds in Cuba
Photo Credit: Carnival Cruise Line has received permission to send cruise ships to Cuba. Shown here is a view of the water in Havana. Carnival Cruise Line
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With Carnival Cruise Line now in the mix, all the major mass-market cruise lines now have Cuba on the horizon. The question now is how travelers will respond.
More than a year after Carnival Corporation first sent a cruise ship to Cuba, the operator will finally sail its namesake line to the island.
Carnival Cruise Line announced Tuesday that it got the green light from Cuban authorities to sail to Havana and stay docked overnight on a dozen voyages between June and October of this year.
The cruise giant hopes those dozen sailings are just the beginning.
"We’re very much in this for the long haul," said Terry Thornton, the line's senior vice president of port operations. "Obviously we don’t think 12 cruises is the end game here....We have a much longer-term vision of this."
Carnival Corp.'s newest brand, Fathom, was the first modern U.S. operator to visit Cuba in the spring of 2
