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Carnival Cruise Line Named Best Ocean Cruise Line by USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards

Carnival Sunshine Named BestMid-Sized Ship and Carnival Breeze Recognized as Best Cruise Ship for Families

MIAMI (Jan. 4, 2019) – Carnival CruiseLine earned top honors as the Best Ocean Cruise Line in the annual USA Today10Best Readers' Choice Awards announced today.In addition, CarnivalSunshine was named BestMid-Sized Ship, and Carnival Breeze was voted BestCruise Ship for Families. Carnival ships dominated the Best CruiseShip for Families category with Carnival Breeze, CarnivalHorizon and CarnivalVista holding three of the top four spots.

Nominees were selected by a panel of USAToday and 10Best.com editors and contributors, and then voted on by thepublic. 10Best.com provides users with original, unbiased and experientialtravel content around the U.S. and beyond. Combined with USA Today,America's number one newspaper, the two news forums garner 6.6 million readersdaily.

"We are honored to be recognized by thereaders of USA Today and 10Best.com for these coveted awards," saidChristine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. "Our team works diligentlyto provide our guests with new levels of fun and excitement, delivered by ouramazing onboard crew, and it's wonderful to see these efforts recognized andrewarded."

With the recentaddition of San Francisco, Carnival operates from 19 North Americanhomeports, and roughly half of the U.S. population is within a five-hour driveto one of the locations. Providing a convenient and cost-effective means forguests to get to and from their cruises, the line carries more than 5.2 millionguests annually.

Carnival earned the Best Ocean Cruise Linehonor for its innovative and extensive offerings and array of exciting developmentsover the past year. These include the launch of Carnival Horizon, sailing fromPortMiami year-round, which features the first-ever Dr. Seuss water park,Smokehouse Brewhouse with barbeque favorites from Food Network star Guy Fieriand four craft beers brewed on board, as well as the finalization of anextensive $2 billion ship enhancement program that has added a variety of newfood, beverage, entertainment and attraction choices across the fleet.

Carnival is the number one cruise line forfamilies, carrying more than 800,000 children a year – the most in cruising.Families sailing with Carnival enjoy such fun as Seuss at Sea, an exclusivepartnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, along with top-rated children'sprograms, all-ages comedy shows and audience favorites like Hasbro, The GameShow and Lip Sync Battle. Taking the title as the Best Cruise Ship forFamilies, Carnival Breeze, sailing from Port Canaveral, Fla., features a320-foot-long waterslide at its sprawling WaterWorks aqua park, an interactiveThrill Theater experience, and a suspended ropes course with views to the sea150 feet below.

Carnival Sunshine, homeported in PortCanaveral, Fla., was named "Best Mid-Sized Ship" in the Awards for itswide-ranging offerings, including a Speedway Splash water slide, athree-deck-high Serenity adults-only retreat with its own pool and waterfall,and a variety of Fun Ship 2.0 dining, bar and entertainment areas. The successof Carnival Sunshine has inspired the transformation of Carnival Triumph and CarnivalVictory into Carnival Sunrise and Carnival Radiance debuting in 2019 and 2020,respectively.

To learn more about Carnival Cruise Line,visit Carnival.com. Forreservations, contact any travel agent or call 1-800-CARNIVAL. Carnival canalso be found on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Journalists also canvisit Carnival's media site, carnival-news.com orfollow the line's PR department on Twitter at twitter.com/CarnivalPR.

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About Carnival CruiseLine

Carnival Cruise Line,part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is "TheWorld's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 26 ships operating three- to24-day voyages to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii,Canada, New England, Bermuda, Cuba, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the PacificIslands and Southeast Asia. The line currently has three new shipsscheduled for delivery – Carnival Panorama™ set to debut in 2019, Mardi Grasin 2020 and an as-yet-unnamed ship in 2022.

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