
Carnival
Carnival Luminosa
Panama Canal
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Sailing Itinerary
Trip Details
Departs: April 6, 2028
Returns: April 20, 2028
Departure Port: Long Beach (Los Angeles)
Ship: Carnival Luminosa
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Your Ship
Carnival Luminosa
Costa's ship of light, handed to Carnival in 2022, and now the one that sails to Alaska from San Francisco
Aboard
- Built by Fincantieri at Marghera and delivered May 1, 2009 as Costa Luminosa
- Christened at Genoa alongside Costa Pacifica in a two-ship ceremony that took a Guinness record
- Fernando Botero's bronze Reclining Woman, over eleven feet long, stands in the atrium
- The first of three Costa ships transferred to Carnival, handed over September 8, 2022
- Converted in dry dock at Palermo and first sailed for Carnival from Brisbane on November 6, 2022
- Keeps her Costa-era golf simulator, putting green and thalassotherapy pool
Ashore
Where You Stop
Cartagena
Miami
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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