Carnival Cruise Line recently announced that it will have four ships homeported in Galveston, year-round, beginning in 2021.

“Carnival is already the most popular cruise line from Galveston attracting vacationers from all across the Southwest and beyond. With these enhancements, we’re providing our guests with more voyages, more destinations and more choices from Texas than ever before.”

Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line

Carnival Cruise Line said that Carnival Radiance will join the Galveston-based fleet in May 2021. In addition:

• Carnival Breeze comes back from Port Canaveral
• Carnival Dream will shift to six- and eight-day Caribbean voyages
• Carnival Vista will continue its popular week-long Caribbean cruises.   

With these four ships, Carnival will carry an estimated 900,000 guests annually from Galveston on 235 five- to 14-day sailings a year.

Carnival Radiance to Galveston

Carnival Radiance will launch a new schedule of five- to 14-day voyages from the Port of Galveston beginning on May 14, 2021.  On this route:

• Five-day cruises depart Sundays and feature the seaside Mexican ports of Cozumel and Progreso or Costa Maya.
• Three different nine-day options departing Fridays will be offered – one calling at Cozumel, Limon (Costa Rica), and a partial Panama Canal transit or a visit to Colon (Panama), another featuring Key West, Grand Turk, the private Bahamian island of Half Moon Cay and Nassau, and a third stopping at Grand Cayman, Mahogany Bay (Isla Roatan), Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel.
• Two eight-port, 14-day Carnival Journeys cruises visiting top destinations throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America and the Panama Canal will also be offered departing Oct. 24, 2021 and Jan. 16, 2022.

Short Cruises to Mexico aboard Carnival Breeze

Carnival Breeze will become the newest and largest ship to operate a short cruise itinerary from Galveston when it kicks off year-round four- and five-day cruises from that port May 5, 2021.   The program includes:

• Four-day long “weekend cruises” departing Thursdays and featuring a day-long visit to Cozumel.
• Five-day voyages departing Mondays and Saturdays with stops at Cozumel and either Progreso or Costa Maya.

Longer Cruises On Carnival Dream & Carnival Vista

Carnival Dream will shift to a new six- and eight-day cruise schedule from Galveston beginning May 8, 2021. 

• Six-day cruises visit Costa Maya, Cozumel and Belize or Mahogany Bay.
• Eight-day cruises feature Key West, Freeport, Half Moon Cay and Nassau. 

Carnival Vista will also continue its popular week-long cruise program from Galveston with two different three-port, seven-day western Caribbean options, with stops at:

• Mahogany Bay, Belize and Cozumel;
• Grand Cayman, Cozumel and Ocho Rios or Montego Bay.

Reservations for these sailings open today. To book a sailing, visit carnival.com, contact any travel agent or call 1-800-CARNIVAL.

To learn more about Carnival Cruise Line, visit Carnival.com. Carnival can also be found on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Journalists also can visit Carnival’s media site, carnival-news.com or follow the line’s PR department on Twitter at twitter.com/CarnivalPR.