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How to Send Flowers to a Cruise Ship in Los Angeles or Long Beach

Los Angeles has two cruise ports and people constantly confuse them. Carnival sails from Long Beach, from the geodesic dome that used to house the Spruce Goose, next to the Queen Mary. Almost everyone else sails from the World Cruise Center in San Pedro, about twenty minutes away across the harbour. Sending to the wrong one is the local failure mode.

Port
Los Angeles and Long Beach
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Volume
1,617,320 passenger movements at the Port of Los Angeles in 2025 · source
Lines here
7 lines with a published gift desk
Terminals
2

Volume figures count passenger movements, which include people getting off as well as getting on. They indicate how busy a port is, not how many cabins sail from it.

Which of the three paths works here

1

Cruise line pre-order

5 lines sailing from Los Angeles and Long Beach run a published flower desk. This is the most reliable way to get flowers into the cabin. The deadlines are below and they are earlier than most people expect. 2 further lines stay listed as a gift desk with flowers unverified.

2

Pre-cruise hotel drop

Straightforward once you have established which port. San Pedro has few hotels, so a San Pedro sailing often means the passenger is staying in Long Beach or near the airport anyway. Ask for the hotel name rather than guessing from the ship.

3

Terminal and pier delivery

Both are secured port facilities, San Pedro under the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach under Carnival Corporation operation. Access to either is controlled.

This is a real option here, and the one to take the most care with. Deliveries onto a ship go through the vessel's agent and suppliers who hold port credentials. Some florists can arrange that. More advertise it than can actually do it. Before you rely on it, ask three questions and expect clear answers to all three: have they delivered to this specific terminal before, who signs for it at the other end, and can they get it there several hours before departure rather than close to sailing time. A vague answer to any of them means you should use one of the other two paths.

Cruise line gift desks at Los Angeles and Long Beach

One listing per line, carrying that line's own published wording. A gift-desk row means flowers are unverified: the page stays for coverage, not as a working cabin-flower path.

Line pages: Carnival , Celebrity , Disney , Holland America , Norwegian , Princess , Royal Caribbean . Program, quoted cutoff, and the ports where that line applies.

Terminals

TerminalAddressGenerally serves
World Cruise Center, San Pedro 100 Swinford Street, Berth 93, San Pedro, CA 90731 Princess, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Holland America, Disney, Cunard and Costa
Long Beach Cruise Terminal 231 Windsor Way, Long Beach, CA 90802 Carnival Cruise Line

Terminal assignments change between seasons and between ships on the same line. Confirm against the booking before you rely on one.

Where the pre-cruise hotels are

A hotel drop only works if you send to the building the passenger is actually sleeping in. These are the clusters that matter at this port.

San Pedro

Immediately beside the World Cruise Center. Limited hotel stock but the closest option to that terminal.

Downtown Long Beach

Walking distance to the Long Beach terminal under the dome, and a much larger hotel cluster than San Pedro.

LAX corridor

Twenty-five miles north. The default for anyone flying in, and a long way from either terminal.

Florists that publish hotel delivery here

If the ship has already sailed

Mexican Riviera sailings leave in the afternoon, and the next stop is a foreign port where a private floral delivery is not something you can arrange from shore. If the ship has gone, the honest answer is to send to the home address for their return instead.

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