Pacific Short-Circuit – Avalon & Ensenada

About this cruise

Some of the best trips are the ones you barely had to plan. 4 nights from Los Angeles on November 15, 2027, visiting Santa Catalina Island and Ensenada, and you're home before the laundry piles up. In between port days, the 1 sea days are where cruise life actually happens: reading, eating, napping, repeat. Craft coffee in one port, old-growth forest in the next. The West Coast has its own rhythm. People come back from this cruise talking about Ensenada: Baja wine country with a surf town soul. Roughly 9 hours ashore per stop. No need to rush. There are 13 restaurants on Carnival Radiance, so you'd need to double up a few evenings to try them all in 4 nights. Los Angeles itself is worth spending some time in. Don't just treat it as a departure point. And November is a good call. Still warm, less crowded, and usually cheaper too. 2 ports, 2 countries, one suitcase. That's the appeal.