Pacific Sun arrived in Australia in November 2004, and began year-round cruises from Sydney to the South Pacific and Tropical North Queensland.

From 2002 to March 2009, the Carnival Pride sailed year-round cruises from Long Beach, California to the Mexican Riviera.

Since April 2009, Carnival Pride was the first ship to sail year-round Bahamas/Caribbean cruises out of Baltimore, Maryland.

Les Bateliers Arcachonnais runs daily, year-round cruises around the Île aux Oiseaux, the uninhabited, so-named 'bird island' in the middle of the bay.

A Map Daily, year-round cruises sail around the Île aux Oiseaux (adult/child €14/10), the uninhabited 'bird island' in the middle of the bay.

Families also have their own cruise line, or soon will, when the 1,500-passenger American Adventure begins year-round seven-day cruises from Miami to the Caribbean on Dec. 18.

Carnival will also sail from Texas for the first time, beginning next October, with year-round cruises from Galveston to the western Caribbean on the 1,486-passenger Celebration.

The first year-round 3- and 4-day cruises to the Bahamas began.

The cruises, the first ever year-round cruises from the Port of Houston, will call at Cozumel and Calica in Mexico and Roatan in the Bay Islands, Honduras.

In Long Beach, she sailed year-round cruises to Mexico, replacing Carnival Pride.