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

Panama Canal

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Departs: March 29, 2027

Returns: April 14, 2027

Departure Port: Mobile

Ship: Carnival Spirit

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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
More About Carnival Spirit

Ashore

Where You Stop

Cartagena

Cabo San Lucas

Seattle

Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

A hundred-year-old feat of engineering that lifts a ship eighty-five feet over a continent, and one of the few cruise days where nobody leaves the deck.

Best Time to Go
December through April, the dry season
Typical Length
10 to 15 nights
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