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Sometimes we just want to go away on a mini cruise for a couple of days of relaxing on-board a cruise ship and seeing places close by. Luckily, the UK is ideally located for short cruises between two and five nights.

Designed for fun-fuelled vacation innovation, the New Mardi Gras ship set to launch in 2020, will be Carnival’s biggest ship ever. It pays homage to Carnival’s first ship, the 1972’s TSS Mardi Gras, which surprised everyone and changed the cruise world by introducing cruisers to a less stuffy and more affordable cruise that everyone could […]

Carnival Cruise Line has always been one of my favourites as its such a fun line, not to mention the largest in the world!  They started out quite simply as a ‘party’ line, sailing around their headquarters in Miami in 1972.

Learn more about the incredible Carnival Horizon cruise ship with our blog guide below. Due for delivery in March 2018, with her first sailing scheduled for the following month, Carnival Horizon is the sister ship of Carnival Vista, and will feature many of her most popular attributes. The 133,500-ton ship, which is currently being built […]

Find out why Carnival is the funnest cruise line at sea! Here at Cruise Nation, we pride ourselves on having helped thousands of people book their first ever cruise. Because we specialise in new-to-cruise bookings, we think it’s important to help our customers decide which is the right cruise line for them. With this in […]

A traditional coin ceremony dating back centuries was celebrated on Friday morning to mark a major milestone in the development of Carnival Cruise Line’s latest ship, Carnival Horizon. The sister ship of the hugely popular Carnival Vista, is being constructed at Fincantieri in Marghera, Italy whereby the ship’s exterior has recently been completed. The commemorative […]

Find out what a cruise on the Carnival Vista is really like… Recently we were lucky enough to be invited onboard the Carnival Vista to experience first hand what the ship and Carnival experience is really like.  Over the past several months we’ve booked hundreds of passengers holidays on the Vista so we thought we’d […]

Carnival cruise line has launched Cozumel Plus to give you more time in port, opening the gateway to a variety of new excursion opportunities. Cozumel Plus has been designed by Carnival cruise line and as well as giving guests longer in port, a selection of additional shore excursions has been unveiled. The new, extra-long tours […]

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri launches the Pig and Anchor BBQ and Smokehouse on the Carnival Magic. Carnival are already a preferred cruise line for many cruisers who like to have a world of choice at the end of their knife and fork. With a dazzling selection of made to order pizzas, sushi, steakhouses, Italian, Mexican […]

Featuring some of the biggest names in music and comedy, is Carnival Live the future for festival-goers? When you think of all the cruise lines, it’s probably unsurprising to learn that Carnival has been first to hone in on the idea of concerts at sea that will entertain the masses (their tag line is ‘Switch […]

Find out what it’s really like to have a cruise holiday on the Carnival Breeze… Recently we were lucky enough to be invited by Carnival cruise line, on an exclusive trip to find out what a holiday on the Carnival Breeze is really like. Just like any other guest, we experienced everything that a Carnival […]

Our travel writer, Penelope Cruise, recently visited the Carnival Vista in the shipyard – here’s what she had to say about her experience… It’s not every day you get to pop on a hard hat and head to a shipyard to see a new vessel being built. But last week I found myself in that […]