Carnival Mardi Gras 2026 Caribbean Review | Carnival Cruise Line
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Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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A review of Carnival Cruise Line's first Excel ship Mardi Gras.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:02.2 | I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance. |
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| 0:09.2 | Here we go. |
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| 0:15.2 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.5 | Mia just returned from a seven-night cruise on Carnivals Mardi Gras at a Port Canaveral to the Eastern Caribbean, |
| 0:24.9 | and she joins us on the line to talk about her vacation. |
| 0:28.4 | How are you doing, Mia? |
| 0:29.6 | Good, Doug. How about yourself? |
| 0:31.0 | I'm good, thank you. |
| 0:31.8 | So you're in the upstate New York area. |
| 0:33.9 | What made you want to take this seven-nighter on Carnival's Mardi Gras at a Port Canaveral? |
| 0:38.8 | So because we own a bed and breakfast in the Finger Lakes region, we know that we are not able |
| 0:44.7 | to vacation during the summer or fall. So we need to get all of our vacation in before our |
| 0:51.8 | business gets busy. So that's how we pick the timing. |
| 0:56.3 | And then I definitely wanted to experience celebration key. |
| 1:00.5 | So that was my next thing was just whichever crews included that in the itinerary. |
| 1:06.7 | I wanted to make that a highlight for us. |
| 1:09.0 | So this one just picked our, since we're traveling with two families, it's my sister, |
| 1:15.4 | her two adult children, my husband and I, just different ports that some of us hadn't been to |
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