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Carnival Spirit

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Trip Details

Departs: December 23, 2028

Returns: December 28, 2028

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
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Ashore

Where You Stop

Cabo San Lucas

Ensenada

Mexico

The Mexican Riviera

The West Coast's answer to the Caribbean, Cabo's granite arch, Puerto Vallarta's old town and Mazatlán's malecón, all within a week of Los Angeles.

Best Time to Go
October through April, when the Pacific is calm and dry
Typical Length
4 to 7 nights
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