Carnival Cruise Line has “unlocked” new sailing options from both the East and the West Coasts of the United States for 2026/2027. The bookings are now open for the expanded itineraries that will sail from PortMiami and Port Canaveral out of Florida, Port Norfolk out of Virginia and, for the first time, the Port of San Francisco out of California.
Fred Stein, vice president of deployment for Carnival Cruise Line, said, “In addition to extending our successful deployment schedules in Miami, Port Canaveral and Norfolk, Carnival Luminosa will bring a new experience to our seasonal homeport of San Francisco for the 2026 Alaska season. These new sailings also introduce some truly stellar additions to our Carnival Journeys program of longer sailings, with a transatlantic cruise from Barcelona to Miami on Carnival Horizon and Carnival Luminosa’s transpacific voyages from Brisbane to San Francisco visiting Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii, and San Francisco to Yokohama (Tokyo) visiting Alaska and Japan.”
Carnival Cruise Line is bringing “Fun Italian Style” to the Port of San Francisco for the first time in 2026 when Carnival Luminosa calls the California port home. She will sail a 22-day Tahiti and Pacific Island transpacific Carnival Journeys cruise in April 2026 that embarks from Brisbane, Australia. She will visit Fiji, Tahiti, Moorea and Honolulu before arriving in San Francisco where Carnival Luminosa will sail a series of 10-day Alaskan cruises September 10, 2026. Included in her itineraries from the Port of San Francisco will be ten 4-day weekend Baja Mexico cruises between April 23, 2026 and August 27, 2026. Carnival Luminosa will depart San Francisco in September 2026 when she sails an 18-day transpacific Carnival Journeys cruise that includes ports of call in Alaska before crossing the Pacific to Japan There passengers will visit ports like Otaru and Kobe before disembarking in Yokohama.
In mid-June 2026, Carnival Horizon will return to her homeport in PortMiami when she sails a 13-day Carnival Journeys sailing from Barcelona, Spain. The transatlantic sailing will feature visits to Alicante and Malaga, Spain; Gibraltar; and Carnival’s exclusive Celebration Key in The Bahamas. From PortMiami, Carnival Horizon will offer six- and eight-day sailing in the Caribbean. Her six-day Western Caribbean voyages will depart on Sunday and visit Celebration Key in The Bahamas, Grand Cayman, and Montego Bay or Ocho Rios in Jamaica. Her eight-day Southern Caribbean voyages will embark on Saturdays and visit Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire and either Amber Cove or Celebration Key.
From Port Canaveral, guests can choose six- or eight-day voyages aboard Carnival Vista. Her six-day sailings will include ports of call at Celebration Key, Half Moon Cay and Grand Turk or Amber Cove, while her eight-day sailings will include St. Thomas, St. Maarten, San Juan and Aruba.
Further up the East Coast, Carnival Sunshine will sail from Port Norfolk. She will sail four- to seven-day cruises to Bermuda and The Bahamas. Ports of call will include destinations like Half Moon Cay, Bimini, Nassau, Celebration Key and Grand Turk. Some longer eight-day cruises will sail either the Eastern Caribbean or to Canada and include ports of call in Halifax, Saint John and Sydney. Carnival Sunshine will sail one nine-day Carnival Journeys cruise that will feature Amber Cove, San Juan and St. Thomas.