
Carnival
Carnival Spirit
Hawaii
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Sailing Itinerary
Trip Details
Departs: March 17, 2029
Returns: March 31, 2029
Departure Port: Long Beach (Los Angeles)
Ship: Carnival Spirit
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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
Kahului
Hilo
Ensenada
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


Compare Dates
The Same Trip, Other Weeks
The identical itinerary on this ship, priced by departure. Fares move week to week, and the difference is often larger than anything else on this page.
| Departs | Inside | Oceanview | Balcony | Suite | From |
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| October 22, 2028 | |||||
| November 5, 2028 | |||||
| November 25, 2028 | |||||
| February 17, 2029 | |||||
| March 3, 2029 | |||||
| March 17, 2029This sailing | |||||
| April 8, 2029 |
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