Carnival Unveils New Itineraries in Australia, Alaska for Carnival Luminosa

(3:30 p.m. EDT) — Carnival Cruise Line has launched itinerary particulars for Carnival Luminosa as the road prepares to welcome it into its Enjoyable Ship fleet, together with sailings to Australia, Alaska, and a spectacular 30-day Transpacific Crossing in September 2023. The road has additionally revealed the ship shall be newly-painted in Carnival’s new livery launched aboard Mardi Gras final yr.

The previous 2,826-passenger ship recently acquired by Carnival from Costa Cruises as Costa Luminosa will embark on its debut voyage for Carnival on November 6, 2022, from its homeport in Brisbane, Australia.

Spending its inaugural winter season in Australia, Carnival Luminosa will sail on itineraries starting from 3 to 11 days out of Brisbane to varied locations within the South Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand.

The ship will then cross the Pacific Ocean on April 13, 2023, on a 22-day journey to Seattle, from the place it should kick off its inaugural Alaska season with roundtrip seven-night voyages starting Might 11, 2023. Ports of name on Carnival Luminosa’s Alaskan cruises embrace Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Icy Strait Level, Ketchikan and Victoria, Canada, together with scenic cruising in Tracy Arm Fjord, relying on departure date.

In September 2023, Carnival Luminosa will embark on a 30-day Transpacific Crossing — one of many longest sailings Carnival provides — for a second Australian season, homeporting once more in Brisbane. However as an alternative of heading south, Carnival Luminosa heads north, crusing to Alaska and Japan earlier than arriving in Australia It replaces Carnival’s former Australian-based vessel, Carnival Spirit, which can now winter within the Caribbean and summer season in Alaska.

(Click here to read our review of Carnival Spirit in Alaska)

A modified Vista-class ship, Carnival Luminosa shares some fundamental design similarities with Carnival Legend, Miracle, Pride and Spirit. In a launch Tuesday, Carnival additionally confirmed Carnival Luminosa will obtain the road’s new crimson, white and blue livery (earlier renderings of the ship haven’t proven this). The ship will not, nonetheless, be retrofitted to incorporate Carnival’s signature “whale tail” funnel.

It’s not recognized, nonetheless, if Carnival will retrofit Carnival Luminosa with the road’s signature options, such because the Alchemy Bar, RedFrog Pub, Man’s Burger Joint and BlueIguana Cantina, amongst others.

Itineraries aboard Carnival Luminosa are actually accessible for reserving.