Costa Luminosa will be renamed Carnival Luminosa and will homeport in Brisbane from November until April
Costa Luminosa will transfer to Carnival Cruise Line, arriving in Brisbane as Carnival Luminosa in November, where she will homeport until April before heading to Alaska.
The Costa Cruises ship replaces Carnival Spirit, which was permanently home-ported in Australia in October 2012 and was redeployed to Jacksonville, Florida, in March.
Joining Carnival Splendor
Carnival Luminosa will join Carnival Splendor, which was home-ported in Australia in December 2019.
Splendor sails to Sydney from Seattle on September 6 and will be the first CCL ship to resume operations in Australia since the start of the pandemic.
Given the short timeline to get Costa Luminosa ready for service, the ship will go through some modest updates to transfer from Costa to Carnival over the next few months ahead of the November start-up.
Staffed by CCL crew
The 92,720gt, 2,826-passenger ship will be staffed by Carnival Cruise Line crew and will initially sail to Queensland ports and the Great Barrier Reef and will eventually visit ports in Noumea, Vanuatu, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
‘The opportunity to deliver these bucket-list itineraries will be exciting forour guests and we are thrilled to see the growing number of guests from the USsailing on Carnival in Australia,’ President Christine Duffy said.
