Carnival Destiny, Our Next Cruise

August 30, 2008 6 Comments

CARNIVAL DESTINY: I am Happy to announce that Jess and I have picked out our next cruise.  We will be going to Key West and Cozumel on a 4 night cruise leaving 10/16 from Miami. I have been having withdrawals from not being on ship since last December. Making my withdrawal even worse is that I have my brother booked on his First Cruise leaving on Sept. 8th.   It has almost been a whole year since our last cruise so we are very excited to have the Carnvial Destiny in our near future!!

With a 7 year old in school and not wanting to leave Baby Cobi for too long, we decided to look at shorter cruises this year.   The trend in the industry is that some of the larger ships (over 90,000 tons) are changing itineraries from 7 night cruises to shorter 4 and 5 night cruises.  So we are taking advantage of the Carnival Destiny departing out of Miami on the 4 night Western Caribbean.  The Carnival Destiny had been making 7 night Southern Caribbean runs out of San Juan. Here are some quick facts on the Destiny:

Total Staterooms – 1,321
Private Balcony Staterooms – 480
Passenger capacity – 3,360
Total crew – 1,040
Officer’s nationality – Italian
Ship size – Large
Tonnage – 101,353
Ship length – 892 feet
Registry – The Bahamas
 
 
Public Areas
Palladium Lounge
Flagship Bar
Galaxy Dining Room
Universe Dining Room
Onyx Room
Millionaire’s Club Casino
Point After Dance Club
Downbeat Club
Cheers Wine Bar
Apollo Bar
The Criterion Lounge
Sun & Sea Restaurant

If you would like to join us on the this sailing just give me a call.  The more the merrier.   If you are already booked on this sailing give us a shout in the comments below and we’ll let you buy us one of those fruity drinks!  800.668.6414 ext. 151.

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6 Responses to “Carnival Destiny, Our Next Cruise”

  1. Theresa Reply September 7, 2008 at 12:20 am

    We’ll be on this sailing too. We are young 50′s with a three year old granddaughter we are bringing to see if she has her sea legs but we’re also taking “us” time and taking advantage of Camp Carnival. Please write back. We have a balcony on Empress Deck. Would love to hear from you.

    Theresa

    Theresa,

    We have a balcony on the upper deck. We are addicted to balconies! We are little torn about not bringing our 7 year old…I really wanted to see how the kids program is on the Destiny, so I could review it for the site. So it is great that you came across the blog and that you will be bringing your grand daughter. We will definitely have to meet up on the ship! ~ Rich Tucker

  2. cruisenow Reply October 11, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    I will be giving live reviews/photos via Twitter. Go to http://twitter.com/cruisesource to follow us live on our cruise vacation.

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