What Carnival Ships Have Havana Rooms? Full Cabin List

Eric DawsonByEric Dawson Boats & Cruises

Six Carnival ships have Havana cabins, sometimes called Havana rooms: Carnival Vista, Carnival Horizon, Carnival Panorama, Carnival Celebration, Carnival Jubilee, and Mardi Gras. The Havana pool area is reserved for guests staying in Havana staterooms for most of each day. Havana rooms feature distinct decor. Rooms range from cozy interior cabins to spacious suites with a private patio, and every guest staying in a Havana stateroom must be at least 12 years old. Carnival Vista introduced the layout first, and Carnival lists Havana staterooms on six ships.

What Carnival Ships Have Havana Rooms

Havana cabins exist on only six ships in the Carnival fleet: Carnival Vista, Carnival Horizon, Carnival Panorama, Carnival Celebration, Carnival Jubilee, and Mardi Gras. The category started with the three Vista-class ships. Vista, Horizon, and Panorama all launched with a dedicated Havana deck built into the original design, aimed at guests who wanted a quieter alternative to the main pool deck.

Celebration, Jubilee, and Mardi Gras arrived later and carried the same concept forward, though each ship adjusts the room sizes and deck placement a little differently. Anyone comparing a specific sailing should still check that ship’s own deck plan, since older Carnival vessels built before Vista do not carry the category at all.

Fleet size matters here because Havana availability is genuinely limited. Mardi Gras, for example, carries only 52 total Havana Cabana cabins across the entire ship, out of more than 2,600 staterooms. That scarcity is part of why the category tends to sell out early on popular sailings, especially over school holidays and summer months.

What Makes a Havana Cabin Different from a Standard Stateroom

A Havana cabin stands apart mainly because of what sits just outside the door: a private, adults-leaning pool deck that stays closed to the rest of the ship for most of the day. Carnival built the whole category around that exclusivity, then layered Cuban-inspired decor and a handful of suite-only comforts on top. The combined effect feels closer to a boutique resort wing than a typical cruise deck.

Private Pool and Lounge Access

Havana guests get reserved access to the Havana Retreat, a pool, hot tub, and bar area that serves roughly 100 to 200 people at a time, compared with the thousands sharing the ship’s main pool deck.

How long that reservation lasts depends on the ship class. Cruise Deck Plans’ category pages for Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration list the Havana pool deck as exclusive daily until 7:00 p.m., with the Havana Bar open to all guests. On the Vista-class ships, Carnival Vista, Carnival Horizon and Carnival Panorama, Carnival ended evening access for other passengers in November 2019, and its brand ambassador said access to the Havana pool is reserved only for Havana guests, including evening hours, as reported by Cruise Radio.

Sources differ slightly on the exact cutoff, so travelers planning around it should check Carnival’s own staterooms page for the current policy on a specific sailing. Reserved loungers, hammocks, and quiet deck chairs fill the Retreat throughout the day, and nobody under 12 is allowed inside while those restricted hours are in effect.

Cuban-Inspired Design and Room Features

Turquoise and lime green accents, plantation shutters, light wood tones, and Cuba-themed artwork give every Havana room its signature look, borrowed straight from Cuba’s own coastal color palette. Beyond the decor, most Havana cabins and suites include a flat-screen television, a safe, a minibar, a hair dryer, and USB outlets built into the desk.

Bathrobes and towels carry Havana branding, and the bathroom amenities use special soaps and lotions not stocked in standard staterooms elsewhere on the ship. Every balcony cabin and suite in the category also opens onto a private or semi-private outdoor space, whether that means a full patio with furniture or a smaller balcony.

Havana Cabin Sizes and Categories by Ship

Room sizes in the Havana category vary quite a bit by ship and cabin type, running from about 185 square feet for a standard interior or balcony room up to 350 square feet for the largest suite. Balcony and patio space adds anywhere from 60 to 161 square feet on top of that base number, depending on the ship and the specific cabin type booked. The table below lines up all six ships side by side for a direct comparison.

Ship Year Introduced Cabin Categories Standard Cabin Size Suite Size Deck Location
Carnival Vista Original Cabana, Cabana Suite 185 sq ft plus 100 sq ft patio 260 sq ft plus 100 sq ft patio Deck 5 (Promenade)
Carnival Horizon Vista-class Balcony, Suite 185 to 260 sq ft 260 sq ft and up Mostly Deck 5, aft
Carnival Panorama Vista-class Interior, Balcony, Premium Vista Balcony, Suite 185 sq ft 260 sq ft Aft section
Carnival Celebration Newer Balcony, Suite 205 sq ft Varies Deck 8
Carnival Jubilee Newer Balcony, Corner Suite, Suite Varies Up to 350 sq ft Aft
Mardi Gras Newer Cabana, Extended Cabana 205 sq ft Varies Deck 8

Carnival Jubilee’s Havana Corner Suite is the largest room in the category at 350 square feet, plus a 161 square foot patio cabana attached to it. Panorama, by contrast, spreads its Havana cabins across six separate categories, including an interior option with no window at all. Mardi Gras and Celebration keep things simpler, with a standard 205 square foot Havana Cabana as the baseline and a semi-private balcony of 82 to 97 square feet attached to most of them.

A Worked Example: Comparing Havana Options on Two Ships

Picking between ships often comes down to comparing two real cabins side by side, not just reading a size range. Take a family of four looking at Carnival Vista and Mardi Gras for the same week in the Caribbean.

On Vista, a Havana Cabana Suite has 260 square feet of cabin space and a 100-square-foot balcony. The category has four cabins, and some cabins sleep up to four guests.

Mardi Gras’ Havana Cabana cabin measures 205 square feet, with an 82 to 97 square foot semi-private balcony, as part of a set of 52 Havana Cabana cabins on the whole ship. Both ship categories require every Havana-stateroom guest to be 12 or older. Mardi Gras lists HE for Havana Cabana and HG for Extended Cabana, with both categories on Deck 8.

The main trade-off is the stated cabin and outdoor-space dimensions. Vista’s Havana Cabana Suite has 260 square feet inside and a 100-square-foot balcony, while Mardi Gras lists a 205-square-foot cabin with balconies ranging from 82 to 97 square feet. Neither ship is the objectively better choice; the decision turns on the cabin setup and the sailing that fits the group.

If I were choosing between these two options for four eligible guests, I would lean toward Carnival Vista when the room itself matters most. Its Havana Cabana Suite has 260 square feet of cabin space, plus a 100-square-foot balcony. Mardi Gras has 52 Havana Cabana cabins, while some Vista Havana Cabana Suite cabins sleep up to four guests. Both options keep the 12-and-older rule for every Havana-stateroom guest, making the room layout a central point for an eligible group.

Where Are Havana Cabins Located on Each Ship

Havana cabins sit toward the back of the ship on most Carnival vessels, though the exact decks differ by ship. On the Vista-class ships the category centers on Deck 5 aft, beside the Retreat pool: Cruise Deck Plans puts all of Carnival Vista’s Havana Cabanas and Cabana Suites on Deck 5, most of Carnival Horizon’s Havana cabins are on Deck 5, and Carnival Panorama adds Havana Balcony cabins on Decks 6 and 7 above its Deck 5 Cabana Suites.

Celebration and Mardi Gras instead concentrate their Havana rooms on a single deck, Deck 8, which keeps the cabins and the pool close together in one contained zone. Being at the stern gives Havana guests a quieter stretch of the ship, away from the busiest walkways near the main atrium and the forward pool deck.

Who Can Book a Havana Cabin

Anyone staying in a Havana cabin must be at least 12 years old, with no exceptions made for younger children even when they are sharing a room with an adult. Carnival enforces this rule fleet-wide across all six ships that carry the category, not only during the exclusive pool hours.

Guests staying outside Havana staterooms cannot enter the Havana pool area during the exclusive hours. The age floor keeps the atmosphere closer to a quiet, adult-leaning retreat instead of the family-focused scene found at the main pool.

What Perks Come with a Havana Suite

Havana suites add a set of extras that standard Havana balcony and interior cabins do not get, layered on top of the pool access every Havana guest already shares. The gap between a Havana balcony cabin and a Havana suite is less about square footage and more about service.

Suite-Only Extras

Guests booked into a Havana suite receive priority check-in and express boarding, priority main dining room time assignment, and priority debarkation on the last morning of the cruise. Suite bathrooms add a rain shower and, on larger layouts, double sinks instead of one. Complimentary laundry service and two large bottles of water waiting in the room round out the suite-specific perks that a standard Havana balcony cabin skips.

Perks Shared by All Havana Guests

Every Havana cabin, suite or not, comes with pillow-top mattresses, soft linens, and Havana-branded bathrobes and towels. Sitting areas with accent chairs, a desk with a mirror, and ample closet space are standard across the whole category. Twin beds that convert to a king, plus a convertible sofa bed in many layouts, let the same room handle two to four passengers depending on the ship and category booked.

How Much Do Havana Cabins Cost

The most reliable way to see a real number is to run a live search on Carnival’s own booking engine, or through a travel agent, filtered to the Havana category on a specific sailing.

Prices for the category typically land above a standard balcony cabin and below a full suite outside the Havana zone, which reflects the pool access more than any real jump in square footage.

Booking further ahead, or choosing a shoulder-season sailing, tends to open up more Havana availability before the category sells out, since Carnival sets aside only a limited number of these rooms on every ship. Travelers comparing two sailings should price both the Havana category and a standard balcony side by side before deciding whether the upgrade is worth it for their trip.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Havana Cabana the Same as a Havana Cabin?

Havana Cabana is Carnival’s name for patio cabins and suites inside the wider Havana category, used on ships like Mardi Gras and Celebration. A standard Havana cabin without the Cabana label is usually the smaller balcony or interior version on the same deck. Both sit inside the same reserved pool zone, so the pool and lounge access stays identical either way.

Can You Access the Havana Pool Without Booking a Havana Room?

No, the Havana pool, hot tub, and Retreat bar stay closed to anyone who is not staying in a Havana cabin during the exclusive hours. On Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration the reserved window is listed as running daily until 7:00 p.m., while on the Vista-class ships Carnival has kept the Havana pool reserved for Havana guests in the evening as well since November 2019. Staff typically check room keys at the entrance during the restricted hours to enforce the rule.

Do Havana Cabins Have Windows?

Most Havana cabins do, since the category leans heavily on balcony and patio layouts, but a handful of interior options exist without one, mainly on Carnival Panorama. Guests who want guaranteed natural light should book a Havana balcony or suite category rather than the interior option. Each ship’s deck plan lists which specific room numbers fall into every category.

Which Havana Cabin Is the Largest?

The Havana Corner Suite on Carnival Jubilee is the largest room in the category, at 350 square feet plus a 161 square foot patio cabana. Standard Havana Cabana suites on Vista run close behind, up to about 285 square feet depending on the exact layout booked. Balcony and interior Havana cabins across the fleet stay closer to 185 to 205 square feet.

Is Carnival Adding Havana Cabins to More Ships?

Carnival has expanded the Havana category with every new class of ship since Vista, most recently on Mardi Gras and Carnival Jubilee. That pattern suggests future newbuilds will likely carry some version of the layout, though Carnival has not announced plans to retrofit its full existing fleet. Checking a specific ship’s deck plan before booking is still the safest way to confirm whether the category exists on that vessel.

Havana cabins remain a small slice of Carnival’s overall room inventory, limited to six ships and reserved for guests 12 and older who want a quieter pool scene away from the main deck. Comparing exact square footage, deck location, and current pricing against a specific sailing’s deck plan is still the best way to confirm what a given cabin includes before booking.

References

Sources read in September 2026.

Eric Dawson

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