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.

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Carnival Spirit

Hawaii

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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

Seattle

Honolulu

Kahului

Hilo

Victoria

Hawaii

Hawaii

Four islands, one week, and no inter-island flights, the only way to see Hawaii properly without spending half the vacation in airport lines.

Best Time to Go
Year-round; April to May and September to October are quietest
Typical Length
7 nights inter-island, or 14 to 17 round-trip from the mainland
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DepartsFrom
September 23, 2026
April 14, 2027This sailing