The large Carnival Spirit cruise ship sits docked in blue water under a clear sky. The white multi-deck vessel features rows of balconies, orange lifeboats along its side, a festive string of flags, and a signature red and blue whale-tail funnel near the rear.

Carnival

Carnival Spirit

Bahamas

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Carnival Spirit

The prototype of the class, eight years an Australian ship, and now the reason Mobile has cruises

Aboard

  • First of the four Spirit-class ships, delivered by Kvaerner Masa-Yards in Helsinki on April 11, 2001
  • Christened at Miami by Elizabeth Dole on April 27, 2001, at a cost of $375 million
  • Based in Sydney from 2012 to 2020, Carnival's first ship homeported outside North America year-round
  • Green Thunder, a 180-foot near-vertical drop slide fitted in the 2012 refit and billed as the steepest at sea
  • Public rooms named for empires, Pharaoh's Palace, the Empire Restaurant, Versailles, the Louis XIV casino
  • A six-week dry dock at Cadiz ended in March 2025

Ashore

Where You Stop

Celebration Key

Nassau

The Bahamian capital on New Providence, a colonial harbor town that four ships at a time dock straight into the middle of.

Bahamas

The Bahamas

The short cruise done properly, a long weekend, a private island, and water so clear the shadow of the ship sits on the sea floor.

Best Time to Go
Year-round; November to April is driest
Typical Length
3 to 5 nights
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December 20, 2026
January 11, 2027This sailing
February 28, 2027