Why Carnival Limits You to One Meal at Celebration...

This previous weekend, Carnival Cruise Line opened their new personal resort in The Bahamas, Celebration Key.

Cruise Fever was there on opening day to see what this new port was all about. You possibly can examine what I thought here.

Our photo post on Facebook of Celebration Key has obtained over 1,600 feedback up to now. Whereas the overwhelming majority of them have been optimistic, many cruisers don’t perceive why Carnival limits company to only one free meal and why they will’t use their ship’s beverage package deal (CHEERS!).

For a lot of cruise line personal islands, a lot of the meals is limitless and you should utilize your ship’s beverage packages whereas having fun with the island.

So why does Carnival Cruise Line restrict company in these two areas? It comes down to 1 easy truth, they don’t run the meals and beverage shops at Celebration Key.

Let me clarify in additional element. While you go to CocoCay as an illustration, Royal Caribbean’s personal island in The Bahamas, all meals and drinks come from the ship. While you go to a bar to order a drink, you’re served by a crew member from one of many ships in port that day. The island is an extension of the ship.

Celebration Secret is situated on the biggest island in The Bahamas, Grand Bahama Island. Right here, companies run all of the bars and meals shops. No meals or drinks come from the ship, however from native companies right here.

A Carnival consultant mentioned that in the event that they supplied limitless meals, the port wouldn’t be sustainable since they don’t management that facet of it.

Carnival’s Model Ambassador, John Heald, posted on his Fb web page in the present day saying that 1,500 native Bahamians work on the port. While you go to a bar to order a drink, you aren’t served by a crew member from the ship. You’re served by an area Bahamian. The identical is true with all meals shops.

He additionally talked about how the port is a non-public vacation spot, not an out island. It’s just like ports like Isla Tropicale (previously often called Mahogany Bay), personal ports constructed by Carnival Company however they aren’t an extension of the ship.

At Isla Tropicale or Amber Cove, you need to pay further for all meals and drinks on the port. Celebration Key is rather like that with one exception, Carnival is definitely supplying you with one free meal or you will get a 25% low cost at one of many premium eating institutions.

Whereas I utterly perceive that many don’t like how meals and drinks are handled right here, I hope this helps you perceive why it’s this manner at Celebration Key.