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Carnival's Celebration Key Marks First Year With 2.4 Million Visits
The site supports approximately one thousand year-round local jobs, and Carnival said more than eighty percent of food and retail operators are locally owned.
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Margaritaville at Sea to Unite Fleet in Nassau for Zac Brown Show
Miami-Dade County commissioners are scheduled to consider a PortMiami agreement giving Margaritaville at Sea preference at Cruise Terminal C for about one hundred seventy calls.
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Carnival Completes Celebration Key Pier Expansion on Grand Bahama
Star Princess is scheduled to visit on November 1, 2026, followed by AIDAdiva on November 9 during a Caribbean sailing from New York City.
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Norwegian Cruise Line Names Lee Applbaum Chief Marketing Officer
Great Stirrup Cay, one of Applbaum’s named priorities, added a two-ship pier on December 28, 2025, with Great Tides Waterpark planned for September.
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Carnival Opens America250 Shipboard Celebrations in Baltimore
Guests boarding Carnival Pride saw a 40-foot Uncle Sam hat on the top deck, and military members and veterans received limited-edition America250 challenge coins.
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Norwegian Cruise Line Cuts 2026 Summer Cruise Fares by 50%
Great Tides Waterpark on Great Stirrup Cay is scheduled to open in September 2026, with nineteen slides, a Tidal Tower and a Splash Cay kids' area.
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MSC Foundation Convenes Experts on Bahamas Coral Disease Response
First identified in Florida in 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease had reached 33 countries by mid-2025 and affected more than 175 square miles of Bahamian reef.
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Carnival Bans 16 Guests After PortMiami Debarkation Brawl
The sheriff’s office treated the case as a mutual combatant incident, and Carnival said the area was under United States Customs and Border Protection authority.
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Nassau Cruise Port Sets Single-Day Record With 33,254 Passengers
The redevelopment raised Nassau’s daily passenger capacity from roughly twenty thousand to about thirty-three thousand, with room for six full-size ships at once.
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CLIA Report Details Cruise Lines’ Net-Zero Technology Push
At Ocean Cay in The Bahamas, MSC converted a former sand-dredging site into a sixty-four-square-mile marine reserve after investing more than four hundred million dollars.
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MSC to Expand Ocean Cay With Two-Ship Pier by Late 2027
Ocean Cay is slated for late 2027 upgrades, including an adults-only beach, family lagoon and extended pier that can handle two ships at the same time.
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Carnival Rewards to Count Milestones by Days Sailed
Duffy said prior cruises will convert into days once members opt in, and unused benefits from the existing program remain available through 2030.