Previously in the northern fall and winter seasons,
Carnival Spirit sailed cruises from
San Diego and
Los Angeles to the
Mexican Riviera. After
Carnival Spirits repositioning out of San Diego in April 2012, Carnival ceased operations with that port. During the period from mid-May and ending in September (northern summer),
Carnival Spirit sailed the waters alongside the Alaskan
Inside Passage on alternating one-week northbound and southbound voyages calling in
Vancouver and
Seattle. In December 2011,
Carnival Spirit sailed to the
Hawaiian Islands. After
Carnival Spirit finished her Alaskan and Hawaii cruises, she embarked on a
transpacific crossing, calling in
Tahiti and
Fiji to reposition to
Sydney, Australia, arriving on 16 October 2012. It marked the first time Carnival based a ship permanently outside North America. She had undergone a
dry dock in San Francisco nine months prior to prepare her for the Australian deployment, which included installing Australian-style power points, as well as changing the on-board currency to the Australian dollar. The total cost of the renovations was estimated to total . She sailed her first voyage from Sydney, to the South Pacific and
New Zealand, from 20 October 2012. in
Australia on 27 May 2014 In May 2016, Carnival announced the ship would sail seasonally from
Shanghai beginning in the Australian winter of 2018, making her the first Carnival ship to be based in China. In late 2016, Carnival subsequently reversed this decision and
Carnival Spirit continued to sail from Sydney, and explained the Australian market continued to be strong, which did not make the move economically viable in the long term. In mid 2018, Carnival announced that
Carnival Spirit would become the company's first ship to sail from
Brisbane from 2020. However, amid the
COVID-19 pandemic and its
impact on tourism, she never debuted in Brisbane during the cruise industry's pause in operations. She was also the last Cruise Ship to sail from Sydney in 2020, before the Australian Cruising Shutdown In February 2022, Carnival announced she would be redeployed to
Jacksonville, Florida and begin operating four-to-five-day itineraries to the
Bahamas on 7 March, replacing voyages originally slated for . It marked a decade since the ship last operated permanently in North America. She was scheduled to move to Seattle to sail in Alaska in mid 2022 and Caribbean from Miami afterwards from 2022 to 2023, replacing sailings planned for and was deployed to begin sailing from
Mobile, Alabama in October 2023 following another Alaskan season in mid 2023. in
Melbourne,
Australia with
Pacific Explorer on 6 November 2019 ==References==