Carnival Cruise Line’s is set to become Galveston’s largest cruise line following the announcement of Carnival Freedom’s deployment to the Texan port beginning in February 2015.
The Carnival Freedom, which will be joined by fleet mates Carnival Magic and Carnival Triumph, will begin sailing from Galveston in February 2015. The ship will offer year round, seven night sailings to the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Florida. The inaugural sailing from the port will embark on February 15th and offer guests a six night sailing to the western Caribbean, calling in Costa Maya, Belize, and Cozumel. Following the short sailing, the ship will launch her year round schedule of seven night itineraries.
The Carnival Freedom will offer three unique seven night itineraries from Galveston:
- A seven night western Caribbean sailing departing on Saturday, calling in Cozumel; Belize; and Mahogany Bay, Roatan.
- A second seven night western Caribbean sailing departing on Saturday, calling in Montego Bay, Jamaica; George Town, Grand Cayman; and Cozumel, Mexico.
- A seven night eastern Caribbean sailing departing on Saturday, calling in Key West, Florida; Freeport, Bahamas; and Nassau, Bahamas.
In addition, the Carnival Freedom will offer a small number of four and five night sailings to Mexico during the fall and winter of 2015/16.
“Galveston is already one of our most popular embarkation ports and with Carnival Freedom we’re not only dramatically expanding capacity in the market but also providing consumers with yet another exciting opportunity to experience our spectacular Fun Ship 2.0 innovations on a Texas-based ship,” said Gerry Cahill Carnival president and CEO. “In partnership with the Port of Galveston and the local community we have been able to increase our passenger counts five-fold since we first launched service from Galveston in 2000. Additionally, we are extremely grateful for the support of our travel agent partners who have played a key role in the growth of our Texas cruise program,” he added.
Reservations have opened for the new Galveston sailings aboard the Carnival Freedom.
