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Article: Yucatan Holiday: short sailings from Mobile to Mexico aboard Carnival Cruise Lines' classic "Fun Ship".(GULF GETAWAY)
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- September 1, 2005
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A year-round slate of twice-weekly sailings to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula onboard Carnival Cruise Line's oldest and smallest ship is creating the latest buzz in Mobile, Alabama, the Deep South's new cruise port. Introduced last October, four- and five-day Western Caribbean jaunts on the 1,452-passenger Holiday are selling like hotcakes, drawing a largely regional crowd. Folks feel fight at home heating conversations peppered with "y'all" and "over yonder."
Some 26 million people live within an eight-hour radius of Mobile, and most of them drive to the spanking-new Alabama Cruise Terminal, according to Al St. Clair, Mobile's director of waterfront cruise ...