Carnival
Carnival Spirit
Bahamas
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Your Ship
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
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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