Carnival Ship Diverted From New Orleans to Mobile

By Terese Jordan

Published: Fri, July 25, 2008 - 12:27 pm Last Updated: Thu, July 31, 2008 - 5:43 pm

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Because of the Mississippi River oil spill in New Orleans, the current voyage of the Carnival Fantasy will end in Mobile, this Saturday, July 26, instead of its regular homeport of New Orleans. Carnival will provide free transportation for passengers who need to get back to New Orleans. A motorcoach will take people to either the Port of New Orleans or the New Orleans airport.

In addition, Carnival Fantasy’s next voyage scheduled to depart this Saturday will also leave from Mobile. Carnival will provide free motorcoach transportation from New Orleans’ Erato Street cruise terminal to Mobile.

The ship will depart from Mobile, but will end its voyage in New Orleans. For that reason, all passengers are urged to drive to New Orleans and take the free motorcoach provided by Carnival to Mobile to board the ship. That way, they can get to their cars when the ship returns to New Orleans at the end of the cruise.