{"id":40392,"date":"2017-08-12T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40392"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:11:45","slug":"cruise-giant-carnival-extends-sailings-mobile-ala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/cruise-giant-carnival-extends-sailings-mobile-ala.html","title":{"rendered":"Cruise giant Carnival extends sailings out of Mobile, Ala."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Cruise giant Carnival extends sailings out of Mobile, Ala.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Cruise giant Carnival extends sailings out of Mobile, Ala.:-Cruise giant Carnival will continue to offer voyages out of Mobile, Ala., through at least the end of next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Miami-based line has exercised an option in its contract with the city to continue sailing out of the Mobile cruise terminal through December 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Carnival resumed year-round sailings from the terminal in late 2016 after a five-year absence, becoming the only line offering voyages from Mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Carnival has a single ship, the 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy, based in the city. Its initial schedule has been limited to four- and five-day cruises to Mexico, but the line recently announced plans for several longer voyages that will include stops in the Cayman Islands, Honduras, Belize, the Bahamas and the Panama Canal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The four-day trips feature a single call at Cozumel while the five-day voyages add a stop at Costa Maya or Progreso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Christened in 1990, Fantasy is one of the oldest cruise ships operated by a major North American brand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The 26-year-old vessel underwent a multi-million-dollar refurbishment before sailing for Mobile that included the addition of a Guy Fieri-themed burger stand, two new poolside bars and a Mexican-themed eatery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/cruises\/2017\/08\/09\/cruise-giant-carnival-extends-sailings-out-mobile-ala\/551645001\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/cruise-giant-carnival-extends-sailings-mobile-ala.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise giant Carnival extends sailings out of Mobile, Ala. Cruise giant Carnival extends sailings out of Mobile, Ala.:-Cruise giant Carnival will continue to offer voyages out of Mobile, Ala., through at least the end of next year. The Miami-based line has exercised an option in its contract with the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44187,44185,44186,44184],"class_list":["post-40392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-carnival-cruises-out-of-mobile","tag-cruise-carnival-cruise","tag-cruise-carnival-ship","tag-cruise-giant-carnival-extends-sailings-out-of-mobile-ala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}