Carnival Imagination Catalina Island

What is your favorite things to do while visiting Catalina for the day?

We've enjoyed renting a golf cart and touring around the town, driving up the hill to the wrigley botanical gardens. It's all walkable as well, if you're in shape and enjoy that.

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A walk to the gardens sounds nice. Thanks!

Several threads on the West Coast Departure, California Coastal and Mexican Riviera boards.

A short list

Casino and Museum (the iconic round building)

Golf cart rental

Miniature golf

Wrigley Gardens

HOHO trolley

Beaches

Semi sub

Water based excursions

Zipline

Catalina Chamber has lots of info.

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Just a heads up the casino is not a casino you can go gamble at, its a museum only :)

We cruised to Catalina last year on the Imagination. After tendering from the ship, we took the Catalina bus up to the Wrigley Gardens ($1 per person and well worth the money!) to begin the "Garden to Sky Loop" hike. We paid the admission to the gardens, filled out our paperwork for the free hiking permit and walked to the Wrigley Memorial at the rear of the gardens where the hike begins. The loop, which ends at the Hermit Gulch Campground is about 4 miles and I would rate it moderate-to-slightly strenuous due to the change in elevation. The views over the island were well worth the effort!

After walking back to town (although you could pay for the bus again), we played some mini-golf, strolled around the exterior of the historic casino and stopped for ice cream in town as we checked out some of the shops. (BTW, my companion had done the tour of the casino on a previous visit and said it wasn't really worth what they charge for the tour.)

If you enjoy hiking, I highly recommend this one!

Hike almost every day! Perfect! Thanks 😀

We like to walk so we walked all around town and enjoyed a few hours there.

Keith

Great pics! Thanks!

Renting a golf cart was expensive, so we rode the bus which makes a nice loop. The wrigly memorial is gorgeous as is the botanical garden. The Catalina museum had a dale chihuli art glass exhibit that was beautiful. Small museum but lovely and some Catalina history as well. We enjoyed coffee and ice cream from scoops.

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