MSC Cruises summer 2024 sailings depart from both Florida and New York
No plans yet for summer vacation? MSC Cruises summer 2024 deployment features four ships offering a range of itineraries departing from Florida and New York. Families can choose from weekend cruises to longer vacations with MSC Cruises summer 2024 North America itineraries to the Caribbean. Cruise itineraries sail to The Bahamas, the...
Norwegian Aqua floats out from Italian shipyard
Norwegian Cruise Line celebrated the float out of Norwegian Aqua from dry dock at Fincantieri’s Marghera, Italy shipyard. Following the successful debut of Norwegian Prima, the Norwegian Aqua will be the first ship for Norwegian Cruise Line’s next-generation Prima Plus Class of vessels, and the float out is the first time the ship...
Sea trials begin for Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas
Royal Caribbean International’s Utopia of the Seas has started a five-day trial in the open sea. The latest in the cruise line’s Oasis Class ships is currently sailing in the North Atlantic Ocean ahead of its final phase of the construction process. Once completed, Utopia of the Seas will homeport in Port Canaveral, Florida offering...
Princess to regularly sail from Port Canaveral for the first time ever
The Love Boat is coming to Central Florida! Princess Cruises, the brand behind the iconic classic show “The Love Boat”, will be regularly sailing out of Port Canaveral starting in fall 2024. Starting Nov.27, 2024, the 3,140-passenger Caribbean Princess will sail four to 14-day cruises out of Port Canaveral in Central Florida...
Boldly go on a Star Trek cruise, it’s almost sold out!
Star Trek has become even more popular in the last few years with new shows featuring new and old cast members on Paramount+. If you book soon, you too can boldly go on a ship with some of the crew. Cruise ship, not starship, yet! Sail on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas out of …...
Our tour of the MSC Divina at Port Canaveral
The MSC Divina departed from Port Canaveral last week on Sept. 16. It was MSC Cruises first of many ongoing 3-, 4-, and 7-day cruises from the Central Florida port. We were invited to tour the ship.
Trip Report: First day on the Carnival ‘Mardi Gras’
Carnival Cruise Line invited us to sail on their newest ship, the “Mardi Gras”. It’s a seven day sailing and the first ship to sail out of Port Canaveral since the pandemic stopped all cruising in 2020. Here’s how our first day, July 31, 2021, on the Carnival ‘Mardi Gras’ went.
Top photo by @Bioreconstruct on Twitter.
Royal Caribbean announces it’s Holiday Season cruises
Royal Caribbean International announced new Caribbean cruises for Explorer of the Seas from November 2014 through early January 2015. After eight consecutive years dedicated to the New York metropolitan area with year-round sailings from Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, N.J., Explorer of the Seas will redeploy to Port Canaveral,...
Carnival offers new four- and five-day cruises from Port Canaveral
By Jackie Roseboom Carnival Cruise Lines will launch the cruise industry’s only four- and five-day Caribbean trips from Port Canaveral with the Carnival Ecstasy. She departed Nov. 7 on a five-day sold-out cruise to Nassau, Freeport and the private Bahamian island of Half Moon Cay — the first of 78 annual cruises from the Space...
Carnival bolsters Canaveral sailings
By Michael Coleman Carnival is poised to add another ship, year round, at Port Canaveral. The 2,052-passenger Carnival Ecstasy will operate four- and five-day Bahamas cruises from the Space Coast beginning Nov. 7, 2011. The move further bolsters Carnival’s position as Port Canaveral’s largest cruise operator with three, year-round...