Camp Carnival Expands!

Wow! So when 12 year old Corky needs a massage, will your wallet get
~ $100 to $150 lighter? )


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Camp Carnival Expanded to Include New Youth Spa Program, Exerseas
Fitiness Activities, Family Reading Club

08/11/2004

MIAMI -- From a family reading club to a recreational fitness program
and even youth spa treatments, a host of new activities have been
added to Carnival Cruise Lines? fleetwide children?s program, ?Camp
Carnival.?

The new activities complement the wide variety of family-friendly
amenities available on Carnival?s 20 ?Fun Ships,? which are expected
to host a record 450,000 kids this year ? roughly half of all children
carried by the North American cruise industry (CLIA member lines).

??Camp Carnival? is already number one in the cruise industry and
we?ve made this popular kids program even better, with more fun-filled
activities and hands-on projects than ever before,? said Bob
Dickinson, Carnival president and CEO. ?Children have their own unique
vacation expectations and these new activities, combined with a huge
diversity of family-friendly amenities, should further bolster our
position as the leader in family cruising,? he added.

Included among the new activities is a youth spa program, recently
introduced on Carnival Miracle, which allows kids ages 12-14 and their
parents to experience luxurious body and beauty treatments together on
port days at discounted rates in the ship?s expansive Spa Carnival
health and fitness center.

Packages, which are available in mother/daughter and father/son
combinations, include hair and nail treatments, health evaluations,
and foot and scalp massages. Following the trial run on Carnival
Miracle, the program is expected to be expanded to other ?Fun Ships?
by the end of the summer.

Also new is ?ExerSeas,? a recreational fitness program designed to
encourage kids to ?get out and play? through intense physical
activity. The program encompasses a diversity of fun, supervised
outdoor activities, everything from obstacle courses and basketball to
popular games such as ?steal the bacon? and ?capture the flag.?

There?s also ?A-B-Seas,? a new reading program in which the youth
counselors read popular children?s books aloud to parents and kids in
the ships? libraries. The program also includes nightly bedtime
stories in the children?s play rooms. Following the readings, parents
and kids, with the aid of the youth counselors, present their own
creative interpretations of the stories through puppet shows, skits
and other group activities. Also planned for this program are writing
workshops where kids can hone their writing skills and express their
creativity while penning short stories and essays.

A new science program, H2Ocean, features a wide variety of fun,
hands-on science projects. Conducted under the watchful eyes of the
youth counselors, the program allows kids to partake in such
activities as making their own ice cream and creating custom-made
helicopters and miniature hovercrafts.

The line?s popular EduCruise program has also been expanded to include
even more interactive projects focusing on the cultures, landmarks,
history and geography of the destinations to which the ?Fun Ships?
sail. Through this program, kids can make their own ?dream catchers?
popularized by various Native American cultures and create colorful
maps of various Caribbean nations.

Also in the works is a new art program that goes beyond typical arts
and crafts, enabling kids to create their own artistic masterpieces ?
paper mache, oil paintings, and watercolors, for example ? while
learning the techniques employed by professional artists.

All of these new activities are included in the complimentary ?Camp
Carnival? program, which is available from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Every ?Fun Ship? also features an indoor play area, many of which
house arts and crafts centers, computer labs and video walls showing
movies and cartoons. Outdoor play areas feature jungle gyms,
mini-basketball hoops and other playground equipment.

Kid-friendly dining options, including special children?s menus in the
main dining rooms and a program in which kids can dine with the youth
counselors on Lido Deck, are also available on every Carnival ship.
Other fleetwide dining options include 24-hour pizzerias and ice cream
stations and the ?Fountain Fun Card,? which for a one-time fee,
provides kids with unlimited soft drinks during their cruise.

Carnival ships also feature at least three swimming pools, including a
children?s wading pool, and a corkscrew water slide. Babysitting
services, stroller and ?bouncy chair? rentals are also available
fleetwide.

Recently the line has been increasing its emphasis on teens, with new
teen shore excursions and ?Action Alley? teen clubs on its 110,000-ton
?Conquest-class? ships.

Carnival is the world?s most popular cruise line, with a fleet of 20
?Fun Ships? operating voyages ranging from three to 16 days in length
to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii, the Panama
Canal, Canada, New England and Europe. The line currently has two
110,000-ton ?Conquest-class? ships ? Carnival Valor and Carnival
Liberty ? with an estimated value of $1 billion scheduled to debut
between now and August 2005.

For additional information and reservations, contact any travel agent.