Carnival Changes 14 Panorama Sailings From Long Beach
The September 6, 2026, sailing has the largest outbound shift, now leaving Long Beach at three thirty in the afternoon instead of five, with Cabo San Lucas times revised.
Carnival Cruise Line has adjusted 14 Carnival Panorama Mexican Riviera sailings from Long Beach in 2026 and 2027, changing departure times, Cabo San Lucas calls and, for three cruises, return times to Southern California. The revisions affect selected departures from Aug. 9, 2026, through Mar. 7, 2027, on the 133,500-gross-ton ship, which operates year-round from Long Beach.
Most of the affected cruises move by 30 minutes at embarkation, but one sailing leaves 90 minutes earlier and three 2027 departures are scheduled to return to Long Beach an hour later than originally planned.
Which Panorama sailings changed
The Sept. 6, 2026, departure has the largest outbound change: Carnival Panorama is now scheduled to leave Long Beach at 3:30 p.m., not 5 p.m., with revised port times in Cabo San Lucas.
Six other departures also move to a 3:30 p.m. Long Beach departure from the previous 4 p.m. schedule: Aug. 9, Aug. 15, Aug. 23, Sept. 13 and Sept. 20, 2026, and Jan. 24, 2027. Their Cabo San Lucas call times have been changed as well.
For the Jan. 30, Feb. 13 and Feb. 27, 2027, cruises, Carnival moved the Long Beach departure to 3:30 p.m. from 4 p.m., adjusted Cabo times and pushed the scheduled return to Long Beach to 10 a.m. from 9 a.m. The Nov. 15, 2026, cruise is changing its Cabo San Lucas times without a Long Beach departure-time change included in the notice.
Three other sailings move in the other direction. The Feb. 7, Feb. 21 and Mar. 7, 2027, departures are now scheduled to leave Long Beach at 5 p.m. instead of 4 p.m. Cabo San Lucas times for those cruises were also revised.
Guest logistics and broader Panorama changes
Carnival advised guests to be onboard by the final boarding time shown on their boarding passes. For the sailings returning later to Long Beach, the company also told guests to account for the revised arrival time when arranging travel home.
At the Carnival-operated Long Beach Cruise Terminal, the on-site garage has about 1,400 spaces, with passenger drop-off and rideshare/taxi areas at the terminal. Guests planning around the original departure time will need to align parking, ground transfers and flights with the revised boarding and return schedules.
Carnival’s broader schedule notices for the ship also include 78 additional selected sailings from June 2026 to April 2028 that were moved to a 3:30 p.m. departure from 4 p.m.
In a separate May 28 notice covering four additional 2026 departures, Colleen Oliverio, Carnival’s vice president of guest services, wrote: “We have revised the departure time for your cruise and now plan to sail from Long Beach at 3:30 PM (instead of 4:00 PM).” Those four eight-day round trips depart Sept. 26, Oct. 10, Oct. 24 and Nov. 7, 2026, calling at Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, La Paz and Cabo San Lucas. The notice did not identify other itinerary changes or give a reason for the departure shift.
For Cabo San Lucas calls, the exact timing varies by sailing and is being reflected in Carnival’s online itinerary displays and the Carnival Hub app. Carnival-purchased shore excursions in Cabo will be revised before sailing where the adjusted port call requires a change.
