Carnival Opens 346 Miami Sailings, 217 Calling at Celebration Key

Carnival Cruise Line has put 346 sailings from PortMiami on sale in a single release, covering April 2028 through April 2029 — and 217 of them call at Celebration Key, the line's private destination on Grand Bahama that opened in July 2025. That's roughly 63% of the newly bookable Miami inventory routed through Carnival's own port, a share sellers of cruise should note when matching clients to itineraries two winters out.

The release spans five ships: Carnival Celebration, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Magic, Carnival Vista and Carnival Venezia. Itineraries run 3 to 11 nights across 22 Caribbean destinations. For agents, the mechanism is simple: more berths on sale earlier means more commissionable inventory with private-destination calls baked in, which Carnival uses as a differentiator against rivals.

Short getaways carry the volume

The 2,980-guest Carnival Conquest and 3,690-guest Carnival Magic handle the short-break business. Conquest runs 3- and 4-night sailings to Grand Turk, Celebration Key, Nassau and RelaxAway, Half Moon Cay, depending on date. Magic offers 4- and 5-night sailings to the same ports, with the 5-night cruises adding more port visits and more sea days.

The 3,934-guest Carnival Vista joins with 6-night Eastern and Western Caribbean voyages calling at Celebration Key, Amber Cove, Grand Turk, Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios. Carnival Venezia, at 4,090 guests, also runs 6-night sailings on both routings, adding Montego Bay, Cozumel and Nassau to the mix.

What about the classic cruise week?

Seven- and 8-night options sit with Celebration, Vista and Venezia. Vista has just four 7-night departures in April 2028: Eastern Caribbean sailings on April 8, 15 and 22, and a Western Caribbean cruise on April 1. The ship also sails 8-night Southern and Eastern Caribbean itineraries reaching Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, San Juan and St. Maarten.

Carnival Celebration, the Excel-class ship carrying 5,362 guests per cruise, continues alternating 7-night Eastern and Western Caribbean routes. Eastern calls include Amber Cove, San Juan, St. Thomas, Grand Turk, Celebration Key and RelaxAway, Half Moon Cay; every Western itinerary visits Celebration Key, Cozumel and Isla Tropicale, in varying order.

Venezia's contribution is 26 8-night sailings under the "Carnival Fun, Italian Style" banner, all of them hitting the Southern Caribbean "ABC" islands — Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. That gives the Venice-styled ship a consistent deep-Caribbean pitch for clients who want port-heavy weeks.

One long-haul option

Conquest adds a single 11-night Carnival Journeys itinerary departing Miami on November 6, 2028, calling at St. Thomas, Dominica, Grenada, Barbados, Antigua and St. Maarten. It's the one true long-sailing in the release and likely to sell as a niche product rather than volume.

All 346 sailings are bookable now. Carnival has also opened more than 300 Port Canaveral sailings for the same 2028-2029 winter Caribbean season, plus Carnival Luminosa's Baltimore deployment after its Australia exit — meaning agents can package Miami inventory alongside Canaveral and Baltimore departures for clients with schedule constraints.