Carnival to have four ships in Australia in 2026-27
Carnival Cruise Line will have four ships in Australia in 2026-27 — the renamed former P&O Cruises Australia’s Carnival Adventure and Carnival Encounter and Carnival Splendor and Carnival Luminosa.
Carnival Adventure and Carnival Splendor will home port in Sydney and Carnival Encounter and Carnival Luminosa, to sail seasonally, will be based in Brisbane.
Sydney cruises
From Sydney Carnival Splendor will operate cruises of two to 12 days.
Her four-day cruises include Moreton Island and her five- and six-day cruises to Tasmania include calls at Hobart and Port Arthur.
Carnival Splendor’s nine- and 10-day South Pacific cruises include Mystery Island and Port Vila in Vanuatu.
She will also operate a 10-day cruise to New Zealand, visiting major ports and Fiordland National Park.
Carnival Adventure’s two- to 12-day itineraries from Sydney include weekend getaways and sailings to Moreton Bay and the Great Barrier Reef.
She will make a 12-day cruise to Fiji in April 2027 visiting Lautoka and Dravuni Island.
Melbourne Cup
Both Carnival Splendor and Carnival Adventure will offer cruises to the Melbourne Cup, run on the first Tuesday of November every year and known locally as ‘the race that stops the nation.’
Cruises from Brisbane
During its seasonal deployment, Carnival Luminosa will operate three- to 14-day cruises from Brisbane.
These include a six-day Great Barrier Reef cruise taking in Airlie Beach and Cairns and South Pacific cruises to Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
She will operate a 14-day cruise to Norfolk Island, highlighting events of the Mutiny on the Bounty that took place in 1789, and visiting Nuku’alofa in Tonga.
Carnival Encounter will cruise to the Great Barrier Reef and a variety of South Pacific destinations from Brisbane, including Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
More options
‘As we expand our fleet to four ships in Australia and enrich our overall deployment plan, our 2026-27 itineraries significantly increase the options available for the Carnival experience from Sydney and Brisbane,’ VP Itinerary Planning Fred Stein said.
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