Key Aspects:
- Carnival Cruise Line has confirmed which ships in the fleet currently have non-smoking casino sections or annexes.
- A total of 14 ships have non-smoking casino options, though some guests feel the spaces are still too small.
- It is possible that upcoming new ships will have non-smoking casino sections, but Carnival Cruise Line has not yet confirmed that feature.
With more and more guests avoiding spaces where smoking is common, Carnival Cruise Line continues to invest in non-smoking casino annexes or completely separate non-smoking casino locations. Guests are always interested in which ships have this feature, and the cruise line’s brand ambassador, John Heald, has confirmed which Carnival ships have non-smoking casino options.
“Here is that current list as of today,” Heald stated in a Facebook post on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
The list Heald shared, along with the current homeports of each vessel, is as follows:
- Carnival Breeze (Galveston)
- Carnival Celebration (Miami)
- Carnival Conquest (Miami)
- Carnival Dream (Galveston; New Orleans beginning in May 2027)
- Carnival Firenze (Long Beach; Miami beginning in February 2027; New York beginning in May 2027; Port Canaveral from November 2027)
- Carnival Glory (Port Canaveral)
- Carnival Jubilee (Galveston)
- Carnival Magic (Miami)
- Carnival Panorama (Long Beach)
- Carnival Venezia (Port Canaveral; Miami beginning in May 2027)
- Carnival Vista (Port Canaveral)
- Mardi Gras (Port Canaveral)
Heald also noted that “any ship sailing from Australia will have non-smoking casinos,” which adds Carnival Adventure (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide), Carnival Encounter (Brisbane), and Carnival Luminosa (Brisbane through early April 2027) to the list of ships with these facilities.
According to the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, smoking is illegal in all public, enclosed spaces in Australia, though limited exceptions exist for some spaces.
It is unclear whether Carnival Luminosa will retain her non-smoking casino when she returns to the West Coast in April 2027 to offer sailings from San Francisco for the summer, before she returns to Australia in November 2027.
With a total of 15 ships confirmed to have non-smoking casino annexes or separate non-smoking sections onboard, half the Carnival fleet now offers these facilities.
This is up from the 10 Carnival ships that had non-smoking casinos in May 2024, showing the cruise line’s ongoing dedication to providing smoke-free spaces for casino guests.
Some guests, however, do note that separate spaces are not always adequate for the number of guests who want to use them.
“Unfortunately, the non-smoking casinos are too small. I can’t get a machine, so I end up in the non-smoking portion of the smoking casino, which is still very smokey,” one guest responded to Heald’s post.
Heald did not indicate if there are active plans to add more non-smoking options to additional ships as they go through dry dock updates, but he did say he would let guests know if more ships added non-smoking casinos.
Will New Build Ships Have Non-Smoking Casinos?
Because Carnival Cruise Line’s three most recent new build ships, the Excel-class sisters Mardi Gras, Carnival Celebration, and Carnival Jubilee, all have non-smoking parts to their casino facilities, it is reasonable to believe that the fourth and fifth Excel-class ships, Carnival Festivale and Carnival Tropicale, may also have at least some non-smoking casino space.
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It is not known whether the first of the new, larger Project Ace ships, Carnival Destiny, will have a non-smoking casino section or any sort of completely separate non-smoking casino venue.
No significant casino details have yet been released on Carnival Destiny. The ship’s name announcement was made when her first steel was cut on July 10, 2026. Carnival Destiny is expected to debut in 2029 and at an estimated 230,000 gross tons (plenty of room for a non-smoking casino section!), will be the largest ship ever built for Carnival Cruise Line.
