Carnival Jubilee Itinerary in Roatán: the Wednesday Ship, Every Two Weeks
Every other Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Isla Tropicale pier. You can almost set your watch by this ship, and that changes how you plan the day.
The Carnival Jubilee is Roatán’s Wednesday regular. Every other Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., she lands her passengers at the Isla Tropicale pier. No other giant in port is this regular, and that is what makes her day easy to plan. I am a local guide on the island, in English, French and Spanish.
The Carnival Jubilee itinerary in Roatán: every other Wednesday
Over the next twelve months, the port register gives her 25 calls: 22 on a Wednesday, three on a Tuesday. Between two visits, 14 days, twenty times out of twenty-four. If your cruise is on this ship, your Roatán day is very likely a Wednesday.
The hours are just as steady: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for 23 of 25 calls, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the other two. Nine hours ashore is a real day: enough for a full excursion and a relaxed walk back to the ship.
She docks at Isla Tropicale
Like the Carnival Celebration, the Jubilee uses the island’s second pier, Isla Tropicale, which many still know as Mahogany Bay. The terminal exit and the way to meet a guide are not the same as at Coxen Hole.
⚓ Before reading a generic guide, read the Isla Tropicale page: it is about your pier.
Who else is in port that day
On a Jubilee day, she alone brings 49% of the island’s cruise passengers, on average. She has the pier to herself 3 times out of 25. The rest of the time she shares Isla Tropicale mostly with the Carnival Liberty and the Carnival Paradise, sometimes the Regal Princess, the Carnival Venezia or the Carnival Legend.
A median day with her in port is 14,425 cruise passengers. And she is in on the busiest day of the whole year: January 6, 2027, six ships and 24,426 passengers. The crowd calendar gives the exact count for your date.
Carnival Jubilee size and capacity, and how she compares
345 m (1,132 ft) long, 42 m (138 ft) wide, 18 decks, for a gross tonnage of about 183,900. In service since 2023, she is the newest of Carnival’s Excel class.
Capacity: 5,347 passengers at double occupancy, up to 6,631 with every berth filled, plus 1,735 crew. The first number is the one that matters at the pier: it is the one the port schedule uses.
She is one of the 8 giants over 5,000 passengers that dock in Roatán, a little shorter than Icon of the Seas (365 m / 1,198 ft). The full ranking, to scale, is in my cruise ship size comparison. Her twin, the Carnival Celebration, is the same size but not the same rhythm: she only comes once a month.
Carnival Jubilee port: where she sails from
From Galveston, Texas, on seven-day Western Caribbean cruises. Carnival publishes the full itinerary; I have one stop of it, with the exact pier, the real hours and what happens ashore that day.
⚓ Carnival has 16 ships and 217 calls in Roatán over twelve months. If your cruise is on another of their ships, the Carnival page covers them all.
What to do on her port day
Nine hours ashore on a Wednesday, with every other passenger in port coming off your ship: leave early and go small, away from the tour buses. I take you to Pigeon Cay and the nurse sharks or snorkeling at West Bay, and I get you back to the ship with time to spare. Every excursion is on the tours page.
The numbers, read from the port register
Every figure in this table is computed at build time from the Roatán port schedule, read on September 8, 2026. None of it is typed in by hand.
| Cruise line | Carnival Cruise Line |
|---|---|
| Passengers (double occupancy) | 5,347 |
| Length | 1,132 ft / 345 m |
| Berth in Roatán | Isla Tropicale |
| Calls over twelve months | 23 |
| Day of the week | Wednesday (22 of 23 calls) |
| Most frequent hours | 09:00 – 18:00 (on every call) |
| Alone at the pier | 2 2 calls out of 23 |
| Share of the port on her day | 37 % of the 14,425 cruise passengers the port expects on a median day |
| Sister ships calling at Roatán | Carnival Celebration Wednesday, 12 calls over twelve months Carnival Mardi Gras Tuesday, 8 calls over twelve months Carnival Festivale no call in the next twelve months Carnival Tropicale no call in the next twelve months |
⚠️ Hours change from call to call: only the exact date of your sailing counts.
Window: September 28, 2026 to September 28, 2027, as bounded by the register.
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