The Festivale will be Carnival's fourth Excel-class ship, joining the Mardi Gras (debuted in 2021), Celebration (2022) and Jubilee (2023). All of Carnival's Excel-class ships take their names from the ...

There's a good reason why Carnival named one of its newest ships Mardi Gras. The ship – which launched in July 2021 – is not only named after the first Carnival ship that entered service in ...

The ship will cross trans ... shipyard in Finland, the Mardi Gras was delivered to Carnival Cruise Line in December 2020 and started revenue service in June 2021. The vessel has been sailing ...

Carnival Cruise Line announced Sunday details on new ships including its next sister ship to Carnival’s Mardi Gras coming to Port Canaveral.

Port Canaveral will be homeport to Carnival Cruise Line’s fourth Excel-class ship, the LNG-powered Carnival Festivale, which will launch week-long cruises from the Space Coast in 2027.

Those ships includes the Festivale's sister ship, the Mardi Gras, which Murray said will shift from a weekly to a twice-weekly schedule when the Festivale enters the Carnival fleet. “We’re ...