The five finalists in Carnival Cruise Lines’ Virtual Book of Dreams Contest were unveiled this morning at www.carnivalbookofdreams.com and public voting is now underway to determine a Grand Prize Winner.  The contest invited children between the ages of 7 and 12 to share their awesome dreams in a short essay and accompanying hand-drawn illustration for a chance to become the world’s first-ever cruise ship waterslide Godchild.  The winner and family will travel to New York City to christen the spectacular Carnival WaterWorks aqua park on the new Carnival Dream in November and also receive a free cruise. Read the full story

Carnival Cruise Lines’ Senior Photographer Radu Ursu is currently on board the 130,000-ton Carnival Dream and is documenting the ship’s inaugural Mediterranean cruise schedule which began Sept. 21. Read the full story

The one-year anniversary of the Carnival Fascination’s cruise program from Jacksonville, which began September 20, 2008, was marked with a recent reception attended by shipboard and embarkation employees.   Read the full story

If you wondered how John Heald managed to win the great Carnival Dream slide race versus. Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill, you can get the inside story from his latest blog post at http://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/09/22/your-carnival-dream/ Read the full story

Carnival Cruise Lines and Sixthman have partnered to launch the Malt Shop Memories Cruise, aboard the 2,052-passenger Carnival Inspiration departing from Tampa, Fla.  May 13-17, 2010. Read the full story

Carnival’s President and CEO Gerry Cahill and Senior Cruise Director John Heald couldn’t wait for the Carnival Dream’s inaugural cruise to check out the ship’s spectacular new WaterWorks aqua park.

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