MIAMI, May 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of the men
and women who serve in the U.S. and Canadian military, Carnival
Cruise Line is offering active and retired service members special
savings and bonuses during May to mark National Military
Appreciation Month.
The promotion, which provides a $50 onboard credit per cabin and a two-category
upgrade, can be combined with Carnival's highly attractive military
rates. In addition, guests who qualify for the month-long promotion
can book up to two additional staterooms with the same bonuses and
pricing. The promotion can be booked throughout the month of May
and is applicable for cruises departing between August 2016 and April
2018.
"Carnival has a long-established history of providing special
consideration to our military men and women and we are pleased to
offer these exclusive benefits during Military Appreciation Month,"
said Christine Duffy, president of
Carnival Cruise Line. "During every Carnival cruise, service
members are also honored at a special military appreciation event
we kicked off earlier this year in conjunction with our
Honor.Family.Fun. program which is raising funds for
Operation Homefront."
In January Carnival launched Honor.Family.Fun. — a
year-long initiative in partnership with seven-time GRAMMY
Award–winning superstar Carrie
Underwood and Operation Homefront, the national nonprofit
that builds strong, stable and secure military families. The
program helps raise funds for Operation Homefront and will
culminate in a special private concert for service men and women
and their families starring Underwood aboard Carnival's newest and
most family-friendly ship, Carnival Vista, when the vessel makes
its U.S. debut in New York City on
Nov. 4, 2016.
During Underwood's Storyteller Tour, which kicked off in
Jacksonville in January, select
military families, chosen in partnership with Operation Homefront,
are being treated to a personal meet-and-greet with Underwood
before a number of her concerts. A series of videos showing these
heart-warming encounters can be viewed here.
Throughout the yearlong Honor.Family.Fun. initiative,
those wishing to support the cause can contribute by clicking on
the "Donate Today" button at carnival.com/HonorFamilyFun.
Commemorative dog tags are available for purchase at merchandise
stands at all "Storyteller Tour" concerts and on board Carnival
ships, with all proceeds supporting Operation Homefront.
For additional information and reservations for Carnival Cruise
Line, contact any travel agent, call 1-800-CARNIVAL or
visit carnival.com. Carnival can also be found on:
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Journalists also can visit Carnival's media
site, www.carnival-news.com or follow the line's PR
department on Twitter at www.twitter.com/CarnivalPR.
About Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival, a unit of
Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is "The
World's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 25 ships operating three-
to 16-day voyages to The Bahamas,
Caribbean, Mexican Riviera,
Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Australia, New
Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The company currently
has an as-yet-unnamed 133,500-ton ship currently under construction
and set to debut in 2018.
About Operation Homefront
A national nonprofit, Operation Homefront leads more than 2,500
volunteers with nationwide presence who provide emergency and other
financial assistance to the families of service members and wounded
warriors. Operation Homefront has provided assistance to thousands
of military families since its inception in 2002. Recognized for
superior performance by leading independent charity watchdog
groups, nationally, 92 percent of Operation Homefront's
expenditures go directly to programs that provide support to our
military families. For more information, go to
www.OperationHomefront.net.
About Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood emerged from the
promise of her 2005 American Idol win to become a
true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements
in music, television, and film. A seven-time GRAMMY®
Award winner, she has amassed over 100 major honors, sold 58
million records worldwide, and recorded 23 #1 singles, 13 of
which she co-wrote, with a catalog of songs that have been streamed
more than 1.5 billion times worldwide. The first female
artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer
of the Year, Underwood was recognized
as Pollstar's top female country touring artist
for her headlining tours in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Her first
four studio albums, Some Hearts, Carnival
Ride, Play On, and Blown Away – each certified
multi-Platinum or Platinum, and each an American Music
Awards winner as Country Album of the Year – tallied an
incredible 38 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Top Country
Albums chart. In 2013, Underwood starred as Maria von
Trapp in NBC's three-hour holiday blockbuster, the
Emmy®-winning The Sound of Music Live!, whose airings
attracted 44 million viewers. In December of 2014, the Grand
Ole Opry member released her first hits
collection, Greatest Hits: Decade #1.
Billboard's best-selling hits album of 2015, the
chart-topping package was certified Platinum in January of 2016,
making Underwood the only country artist – and one of only six
all-genre artists – to launch an album to Platinum success since
the time of its release in December of 2014. Celebrating her
first 10 years of music, the collection's 25 songs included two new
#1 hits co-written by Underwood: the Platinum-certified,
GRAMMY-winning "Something in the Water," as well as the
Gold-certified "Little Toy Guns." In 2015, she began her
third season as the voice of primetime television's #1
program, Sunday Night Football, and returned for an
eighth consecutive year as co-host of the CMA Awards. Underwood's
chart-topping, Gold-certified fifth studio album,
Storyteller, has produced two #1 singles with "Smoke Break"
and "Heartbeat."
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