Carnival Cruise Line has unveiled sailings for the 2025 Alaska season and more Carnival Journeys sailings. These offerings include voyages to Alaska, as well as transatlantic and transpacific journeys departing from Seattle, Barcelona, and Brisbane.
Deployment Highlights:
- Carnival introduces two ships for the 2025 Alaska season: Carnival Spirit and Carnival Luminosa.
- All-new seven-day Alaska sailings aboard Carnival Luminosa start on May 1, 2025.
- Carnival Luminosa will offer a special 29-day transpacific Carnival Journeys sailing featuring multiple stops in Japan
- Carnival Spirit’s Alaska sailings kick off on April 14, 2025, with a range of week-long itineraries.
Two Ships for the 2025 Alaska Season
For the 2025 Alaska season, Carnival is deploying two vessels—Carnival Spirit and Carnival Luminosa—to launch from Seattle.
Carnival Luminosa
Seven-day Alaska sailings departing every Thursday on Carnival Luminosa begin on May 1, 2025, and continue through Sept. 11, 2025. After departing Seattle, the ship cruises Tracy Arm Fjord, Skagway, Juneau, and Ketchikan, Alaska, and Victoria, British Columbia.
Before beginning its Alaska sailings, Carnival Luminosa is scheduled to leave Brisbane, Australia, on April 3, 2025, for a 29-day itinerary that ends in Seattle. Featured stops include Anchorage, Ketchikan, and Juneau in Alaska and Hiroshima, Okinawa, Hakodate, Kushiro, and Tokyo in Japan.
Carnival Spirit
The Alaska season onboard Carnival Spirit offers 21 week-long sailings departing Seattle, cruising Tracy Arm Fjord, and stopping in ports Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan, Alaska, and Victoria, British Columbia. The sailings begin on April 14, 2025, and continue through the summer, with the final departure on September 9, 2025. The ship will also sail an eight-day cruise departing May 5, 2025, adding Icy Strait Point as a port of call.
On September 26, 2025, Spirit will travel from Hawaii to Seattle. During the 15-day roundtrip, stops include Kahului, Maui; Honolulu, Oahu; Hilo; Nawiliwili, Kauai; and Victoria, British Columbia. It will also go from Seattle to New Orleans for a 16-day Panama Canal cruise that leaves on October 11, 2025.
Since its launch in 2015, the Carnival Journeys program has become a favored choice for adventurous cruisers. Now boasting over 85 upcoming and available sailings, the program aims to satisfy the wanderlust of over 230,000 guests by 2025.
Carnival Journeys are specialized offerings by the cruise line known for their longer itineraries and more unique destinations. They frequently sail during the off-peak cruise season. Since its launch in 2015, the Carnival Journeys program has become a favored choice for longer sailings and will carry 230,000 guests by 2025.
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