Excellence class · Carnival Cruise Line

Mardi Gras

In service

Mardi Gras is an Excellence-class ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line, in service since 2021. She measures 181,808 gross tons and carries 5,282 passengers at double occupancy.

Gross tonnage

181,808

GT

Passengers

5,282

double occupancy · 6,500 max

Entered service

2021

Excellence class

Decks

19

Crew

2,000

⚓ Ship time on Mardi Gras

Like every cruise ship, she keeps ship time — normally the time zone of her departure port — for the entire voyage, even when docked somewhere that uses a different one. Your phone does not: it switches to local time the moment it finds a foreign cell tower.

That mismatch is the single most common reason passengers miss all-aboard. Read how ship time works, or let ShipTime track both clocks for you — it works with no signal at all.

About Mardi Gras

Named after the original TSS Mardi Gras, Carnival's very first ship. She entered service on 31 July 2021 and is the largest ship in the fleet.

Free download · works 100% offline

Take it offline — get ShipTime

Ship-time clock on your lock screen, gangway alarms that fire with zero signal, duty-free tracking and offline currency conversion. Built for port days.

More Carnival Cruise Line ships

Specifications sourced from Wikipedia. Ships are refitted and reconfigured over time — confirm current details with the cruise line.