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Carnival homeported year-round ships in Tampa.
Carnival Legend is the largest cruise ship
homeported year-round in Tampa. It sails on
seven-day exotic Caribbean Cruises. Featured
ports on this itinerary include Grand Caman, Costa Maya, Cozumel and Belize.
Inspiration sails on four and five-day cruises
from Tampa. The four-day sailings visit Cozumel,
while the five-day cruises call at
Grand Cayman and Cozumel.
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Inspiration
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Fall and Winter ships in Tampa.
These ships sail to various destinations during the fall and winter months.
Holland America Veendam
Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas
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Grandeur of the Seas
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Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise - vacation
group in the world, with a portfolio of 12 cruise brands in
North America, Europe and Australia, comprised of Carnival
Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line,
The Yachts of Seabourn, Windstar Cruises, AIDA, Costa Cruises,
Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises, Swan Hellenic, and
P&O Cruises Australia. Carnival Corporation & plc also
operates the leading tour companies in Alaska and the Canadian
Yukon, Holland America Tours and Princess Tours.
Feb. 22, 2007 - Carnival Corp. Sells Windstar
Saying, "Carnival Corporation & plc's growth strategy is focused on
expanding our core growth brands and opening new markets," Chairman and
CEO Micky Arison announced this morning that Carnival Corp. has signed a
definitive agreement to sell Windstar Cruises to Ambassadors International.
Ambassadors operates Majestic America Line, now the largest river and coastal
cruising company in North America (it includes Delta Queen Steamboat).
Ambassadors President David Giersdorf formerly was an EXEC VP with Holland
America Line/Windstar.
In the statement from Carnival Corp., Arison noted: "Last year we made a decision to
cease operation of UK's Swan Hellenic and transfer its one ship to the Princess Cruises brand.
Both of these are excellent products but simply do not fit into our future growth plans."
Royal Caribbean International
Royal Caribbean International is operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises
Ltd, which also operates Celebrity Cruises and Royal Celebrity Tours.
In 1988 Royal Caribbean and Admiral Cruises merged. It went public,
trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RCL in 1993.
The company changed its name to Royal Caribbean International in 1997
to reflect its growing global itineraries. In the same year, Celebrity
Cruises merged with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. where it operates as a
separate brand. Today they include Pullmantur, Azamara Cruises and CDF
Croisieres de France. The company has a combined total of 35 ships in
service and seven under construction.
Holland American Line
Holland America was founded in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship
Company (NASM), a shipping and passenger line. Because it provided service
to the Americas, it became known as Holland America Line. The company's first
ocean liner was the original Rotterdam, which sailed its maiden voyage from
the Netherlands to New York City on October 15, 1872-a crossing that took 15 days.
With the growing preference of the public for jet travel to Europe, HAL suspended in
1971 its trans-Atlantic passenger trade and turned to offering cruise vacations full
time. It introduced two radically designed vessels-the ‘new’ Nieuw Amsterdam
and
Noordam-in the 1980s, which allowed for more space for leisure-cruising activities.
HAL, along with Seattle-based Westours and Windstar Cruises, was acquired by Carnival
Corporation in 1997.
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