Carnival Corporation & plc is submitting its financial statements for the quarter ended August 31, 2008 as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (the "SEC") eXtensible Business Reporting Language ("XBRL") Voluntary Filing Program. XBRL is an emerging XML-based standard to define and exchange business reports and financial statements. The XBRL-tagged data submitted is furnished on an unaudited basis for the purpose of testing the related format and technology.

Attached as Exhibit 100 to this joint Current Report on Form 8-K are the financial statements from Carnival Corporation & plc's joint Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended August 31, 2008, as filed with the SEC on September 26, 2008, formatted in XBRL, as follows:

(i) the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended August 31, 2008 and 2007;

(ii) the Consolidated Balance Sheets at August 31, 2008 and 2007, and November 30, 2007;

(iii) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended August 31, 2008 and 2007; and

(iv) the notes to the consolidated financial statements, tagged as blocks of text.

Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the financial and other information contained in the XBRL documents is unaudited and these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of Carnival Corporation & plc. The purpose of submitting these XBRL-formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the documents and not rely on the information in this joint Current Report on Form

8-K, including Exhibit 100, in making any investment decisions.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this joint Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibit is furnished herewith:

Exhibit
Number                                Exhibit Description
100          The financial statements from Carnival Corporation & plc's joint
             Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended August 31, 2008,
             as filed with the SEC on September 26, 2008 formatted in XBRL, as
             follows:

             (i)   the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine
             months ended August 31, 2008 and 2007;
             (ii)  the Consolidated Balance Sheets at August 31, 2008 and 2007, and
             November 30, 2007;
             (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months
             ended August 31, 2008 and 2007; and
             (iv)  the notes to the consolidated financial statements, tagged as
             blocks of text.