One-day cruise from Port Canaveral

Greetings all. I'm treating myself to a couple of days in Cocoa Beach at the end of February and am looking for a one-day cruise out of Port Canaveral (not an overnight, just a board-in-the-morning-disembark-after-dark thing). I'm not a gambler and I'm not one to drink my liver into a quivering mass, I just want a day onboard ship to see the Space Coast from the water.

Haven't been able to find a thing. Has anyone done such an excursion? Or does it even exist?

Greetings all. I'm treating myself to a couple of days in Cocoa Beach at the end of February and am looking for a one-day cruise out of Port Canaveral (not an overnight, just a board-in-the-morning-disembark-after-dark thing). I'm not a gambler and I'm not one to drink my liver into a quivering mass, I just want a day onboard ship to see the Space Coast from the water.

 

Haven't been able to find a thing. Has anyone done such an excursion? Or does it even exist?

Sounds like you may be remembering the Sea Escape - cruise to no where - that ran in the 80's. I believe that company left Canav and all that runs out of Canaveral on a 'day trip' are the casino boats..... Sea Escape web site says there is a Port Everglades operation....

http://www.portcanaveral.org/funport/cruise.htm

Greetings all. I'm treating myself to a couple of days in Cocoa Beach at the end of February and am looking for a one-day cruise out of Port Canaveral (not an overnight, just a board-in-the-morning-disembark-after-dark thing). I'm not a gambler and I'm not one to drink my liver into a quivering mass, I just want a day onboard ship to see the Space Coast from the water.

 

Haven't been able to find a thing. Has anyone done such an excursion? Or does it even exist?

I am in Port Canaveral and dont know of anything other than the gambling ships or fishing boats.

Drummerboy, there is no such day cruise out of Port Canaveral. However, do consider the Sterling casino ship which is actually a large ship. While it does have deck after deck of casino activities, there is a lounge with live music, gift shop, free buffet and plenty of top deck sitting room that you can relax for a half-day (about 11am to 5pm) in a semi-cruise environment....and IT'S FREE! Check out: http://www.sterlingcasinolines.com The competing SunCruz casino boat is much, much smaller.

If you want more of a cruise experience, you'd need to drive down to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. There Seaescape offers a day cruise to nowhere and Discovery offers a roundtrip 1-day cruise to Freeport, Bahamas. See: http://www.seaescape.com and http://www.discoverycruiseline.com My Cruise Critic review of the latter written last summer is located at: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=353700

BobK/Orlando