Equity Method Investment, Investment Equity

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Equity Method Investment, Investment Loan

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Equity Method Investment, Number of Cruise Ships

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Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

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Amount of the entity's equity method investment which has been sold.

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This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Other Assets (Details) $ in Millions	1 Months Ended		6 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
Other Assets (Details) $ in Millions	Apr. 30, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) cruise_ship	May 31, 2021 USD ($)	May 31, 2020 USD ($)	Nov. 30, 2020 USD ($)
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Impairment charge			$ 66	$ 3,015
White Pass And Yukon Route
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Impairment charge			17
Investment, amount			77		$ 94
Investment loan			23		19
Investment equity			53		75
CSSC-Carnival
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Investment, amount			$ 229		$ 140
EA Segment \| CSSC-Carnival
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Number of cruise ships \| cruise_ship		2
Investment amount sold	$ 283	$ 107