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Now displaying: November, 2016
Nov 28, 2016

It’s the end of an era for Carnival Corporation’s social impact cruise line, Fathom, as they announced last week that the cruise line would cease operation in the summer of 2017.

Fathom first launched to the Dominican Republic earlier this year, and also opened up the Cuba market in May. 

The Dominican Republic market showed little interest while the Cuba cruises have been extremely popular.

The Fathom brand will remain in Amber Cove, Dominican Republic and operate social impact shore excursions like teaching English, making water filters, and pouring concrete in houses. The ship, ms Adonia, will be transferred back to P&O Cruises.

According to USA Today, Carnival Corporation has already requested approval for another cruise line to take its place in Cuba come June 2017.

If you were looking to sail Fathom but never got around to it, you’ve got approximately six months to hop on the ship before it’s too late!

Nov 8, 2016

Freeport, Bahamas is back open for business, well at least docking cruise ships, after being plowed over by Hurricane Matthew early last month.

Last week, Carnival Cruise Line’s Senior Cruise Director, John Heald, revealed on his facebook page, Facebook page, "It looks like we have good news on ships being able to sail to Freeport again on the week of November 6th."

Scheduled Calls

This week Carnival Cruise Line has Carnival Valor, Carnival Sunshine, Carnival Pride, and Carnival Elation scheduled to dock at the island.

Norwegian Cruise Line said that Norwegian Sky is expected to resumes called to Freeport on November 20, a stop on their four-night itineraries out of Miami.

Royal Carribean's Grandeur of the Seas, a ship based out of Baltimore, is scheduled to stop there on November 16.

Clean up of Port Lucaya Marketplace is underway. Businesses in the island’s tourism hub are slowly starting to reopen. Well known day pass hotel Grand Lucayan sustained roof and water damage and still remains closed until further notice. A representative at the hotel told me that are still in "restoration mode." Cruisers can not buy day passes to the resort at this time.

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