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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Carnival Launches New Program for Tweens

Got tweens? It's not easy keeping them entertained on a cruise ship, is it?

After all, they're too old for the traditional kiddie programs that your eight-year-old loves. But they're too young to hang out with the High Schoolers in the teen discos that are a mainstay of many big ships.

Enter Carnival, which is launching a new program for children ages 12 to 14.

Dubbed Circle C, the program will center around new dedicated tween clubs that are being installed on all Carnival ships. The facilities already are in place on Carnival Legend, Carnival Pride, Carnival Victory and Carnival Valor, and will roll out on six more ships by the end of the year. All Carnival ships will have the tween centers by 2010.

Designed as a hip place for 12- to 14-year-olds to hang out, the tween clubs will feature a dance floor with a high-tech sound and lighting system. They'll also have 42-inch plasma-screen TVs displaying movies and music videos, and a touch-screen jukebox stocked with the latest hits. Tweens also will find gaming pods with the latest video games and consoles.

Carnival says the clubs will offer a sleek modern design created especially to appeal to younger teens, with a vibrant motif, over-sized picture windows and plush comfortable seating.

The Circle C program also will include a schedule of daily activities, everything from sports such as basketball, volleyball, ping-pong and various water games to late-night movies and “swimming under the stars” pool parties.

The announcement of new tween areas comes as Carnival also upgrades its deck-top pool areas with more kid-focused amenities. Several ships already have gotten what Carnival is calling Carnival WaterWorks, an "aqua park" with a 300-foot-long twister water slide and dual-lane racing slides. Carnival Splendor, set to debut in July, will boast Carnival’s largest play area to date and a water spray park.

Carnival ships carry about 600,000 children a year, the most of any line.

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