After fourteen years, Carnival Cruise Line will not sail out of Charleston, South Carolina. Different cruise strains will nonetheless make the most of the southern port, however Carnival’s final cruise from the area will happen in a number of weeks.
What started with Carnival Fantasy in 2010 will finish with the one final Carnival cruise on Carnival Sunshine within the final month of the yr.
There are eight extra sailings in whole for Sunshine out of the port, starting from a 4-night cruise to a 10-night cruise to the Bahamas and Caribbean.
These are the final sailings for Carnival ships in Charleston:
November 23: 5-day cruise to The Bahamas
November 28: 4-day cruise to The Bahamas
December 2: 10-day cruise to Jap Caribbean
December 12: 4-day cruise to The Bahamas
December 16: 5-day cruise to The Bahamas
December 21: 5-day cruise to The Bahamas
December 26: 4-day cruise to The Bahamas
December 30: 5-day cruise to The Bahamas
The December 30, 2024 crusing is a 5-night cruise that may mark the top of an period for the South Carolina cruise port. This cruise will return to Charleston on January 5, 2025.
Some residents of Charleston have been attempting for years to eliminate Carnival and cruise ships normally. Site visitors points have plagued town on embarkation days and environmental considerations have been additionally on the forefront of discussions.
In 2022 it was introduced that the cruise line’s contract with the port metropolis wouldn’t be renewed.
Different efforts to maneuver the cruise port simply throughout the bay to Mount Nice have been additionally shot down in latest city council conferences.
Different cruise strains in Charleston
Whereas Carnival will not have a presence in Charleston, the port will nonetheless be used be a number of different cruise strains as a port of name.
Along with American Cruise Line using the port for stops on its smaller 100-passenger vessels, Royal Caribbean’s Imaginative and prescient of the Seas will probably be stopping on the port a number of occasions in 2025 and 2026.
Viking’s 30,150 gross ton expedition ships can even name on the port subsequent yr, and Oceania Vista is scheduled to go to Charleston in April of 2025 with its 1,200 passengers.
Its location on the southeast coast makes Charleston a handy cease for ships crusing from the northern states to the Bahamas and Caribbean.
Azamara and Virgin Voyages can even cease on the port in October and Norwegian Jewel and Seven Seas Grandeur will probably be calling on the port in April of 2026.
Norwegian Jewel is scheduled to make a number of Charleston stops in 2026 through the peak season of April by means of September.
Carnival Sunshine’s Future
The place will Carnival Sunshine go after ceasing operations in Charleston?
On February 11, 2025, the ship will start crusing out of Norfolk, Virginia. From Norfolk the vessel will supply 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, and 8-day sailings to The Bahamas, Caribbean, and Bermuda.
Sunshine is presently scheduled to stay in its Norfolk homeport till April of 2027.
The vessel has been in service since 1996 when it was known as Carnival Future. The renaming of the ship befell in 2013. The 102,853 gross ton ship has a passenger-capacity of two,642 and is the oldest of three Sunshine-class vessels, the others being Carnival Dawn and Carnival Radiance.
