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Carnival Legend will sail Europe itineraries in 2020
Harry Kemble
harry.kemble@
travelweekly.co.uk
Carnival Cruise Line is responding to agent demand to deploy one of its ships in Europe by repositioning Carnival Legend for 2020.
The 2,124-passenger vessel
will operate 13 sailings visiting 34 ports in 14 countries, including Scotland, Ireland, Portugal and Iceland. The sailings will last between nine and 16 days. The nine-day Europe from London, sailing on Carnival Legend and departing from Dover on June 28, 2020, leads in at $999. Ports of call include Le Havre, La Coruna,
Lisbon, Gibraltar and Barcelona. Carnival Radiance will operate
four itineraries from Barcelona in summer 2020. The nine-day Europe from Barcelona itinerary, departing the Catalonian city on
Bag a date with Celebs Go Dating stars in new Celebrity incentive
Five agents will be wined and
dined by one of the stars of Celebs Go Dating in a new sales incentive with Celebrity Cruises. The 100 top-selling agents
throughout the line’s turn-of-the- year incentive, from now until the end of February, will earn £500 worth of Celebrity Rewards points and a place at a VIP party in April with the five stars of the show. The show’s receptionist
Tom Read Wilson, Celebrity Big Brother’s Callum Best, Made in Chelsea’s Sam Thompson, Shipwrecked’s Sarah-Jane
DATE: Callum Best, Nicola McNeish, Celebrity, Tom Read Wilson and Sam Thompson (front)
Crawford and Bobby Norris from Towie will then each go on a date
with one of the 100 agents. Peaks offers include half-price
cruises for second guests, free drinks packages and savings of
up to £700.
celebritycruises.co.uk
13 December 2018
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LEGEND: The ship will sail from Dover in June 2020
May 21, 2020, leads in at $879. Ports of call include Livorno, Messina, Marseille and Palma de Mallorca. Before Carnival Legend arrives
in Europe in summer 2020, it will sail from Tampa Bay, Florida, on May 3 of that year, to New York. It will operate two nine-day Caribbean sailings, departing on May 16 and 25, 2020, visiting ports
such as San Juan, St Maarten, St Thomas and Grand Turk. Iain Baillie, Carnival Cruise
Line’s vice-president of international sales, added: “UK travel agents love the Carnival brand in the Caribbean and have been telling us how much they and their customers would like to see a Carnival ship in Europe. “We’ve listened and, as a result,
we will have both Carnival Legend and Carnival Radiance offering some fantastic itineraries in
Europe in 2020."
carnival.com
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