Carnival Spirit Reorders Hawaii Ports as Hurricane Nolo Tracks South of Islands
If you're sailing on Carnival Spirit's current 15-night Hawaii cruise from Seattle, check your new port order: Hilo (Sept. 29), Kahului (Sept. 30), Honolulu (Oct. 1), and Nawiliwili (Oct. 2), with in-port hours unchanged. Any purchased shore excursions will be moved to match; you'll be notified separately if a tour can't be rebooked. Watch the Good to Know Channel on your stateroom TV for further updates before you plan each port day.
Carnival's move here is simple risk management: put the ship at Hilo, the port farthest from Nolo's projected track, first, and work west toward Honolulu and Nawiliwili as the storm (365 miles south-southwest of Honolulu, Category 3, 115 mph winds) moves away. No watches or warnings cover any of the ship's ports, so this reads as precautionary rather than reactive to imminent danger. Guests keep every port and every scheduled hour in port, which is the real win here — Carnival isn't cutting a stop to save the schedule, it's resequencing to buy better sea and harbor conditions. The losers are anyone who built pre-cruise plans around visiting Honolulu first; those bookings now shift to October 1. In the reader's shoes, I'd stop checking the weather map and start checking the Good to Know Channel daily, since that's Carnival's stated channel for further changes.