Carnival Corp. is putting the finishing touches on, not a new ship, but a new destination for cruise passengers. Beginning in July, Doral-based Carnival will send ships between PortMiami and Celebration Key, a private development in the Bahamas.

If you have a PlayStation or Xbox gaming console, you can certainly put it in your luggage and bring it on a Carnival cruise. Technically speaking, a video game console falls into the same general category of electronics as a laptop computer,

There are dozens of islands in the Caribbean that cruise ships use as ports of call, but one logistical problem when trying to fit several interesting ports into a week-long cruise is that some of them are far.