Crusin Hogs Posted August 24, 2012 #1 Share Posted August 24, 2012 sail to the southern Caribbean from FL ? You have to fly to San Juan 1st Booked Princess to Aruba , Cauraco , Princess Cay , From Ft Lauderdale in a balcony room .699.00 -7days Cruised Carnival 5 times ,1st one on Princess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooselover Posted August 24, 2012 #2 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I just booked a "southern" on the Breeze. It is an 8 day going to Curacao, Aruba and DR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccruisequeen Posted August 24, 2012 #3 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Same reason they don't go to Canada from long beach on the West coast -no imagination! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normal 1 Posted August 24, 2012 #4 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Freedom and Valor both have Southern itins.... They switch between a couple different options each month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusin Hogs Posted August 24, 2012 Author #5 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Freedom and Valor both have Southern itins.... They switch between a couple different options each month. But where do you leave from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRed93 Posted August 24, 2012 #6 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Freedom and Valor both have Southern itins.... They switch between a couple different options each month. And Breeze does as well, that's 3 options of Ft Lauderdale and Miami departures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satbeachbill Posted August 24, 2012 #7 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Freedom is out of Ft Lauderdale. Valor is out of Miami. Breeze will be Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTribeFan Posted August 24, 2012 #8 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Because those islands are a long, long way away? I did 8-night to Panama, Costa Rica and Belize on Miracle from FLL. Great cruise. HAL does 10 night cruises to Panama. HAL's passenger demographic is different from Carnivals. Carnival caters a lot to younger families. Those younger pax with kids can't always take a 8-10 night cruise. They're expensive! Hey, I want every possible excuse to go to San Juan, thanks. It's a vacation destination all on it's own. Wanted a longer cruise in November 2013. The options for 10-14 days on other lines, even with reduced solo suppliments were too expensive. Found the repo on Conquest 8-nights San Juan to Miami. For the difference in price, I can fly down to San Juan at least 2, maybe 3 nights early and make my own longer vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg1747 Posted August 24, 2012 #9 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I don't like cruising out of San Juan. I prefer a longer cruise from Florida to the Southern Caribbean. Carnival doesn't do those 10 day cruises, but other lines do, so I'll book with them. I'm just having trouble finding a cruise that goes to all the ports I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JdoggCruiser Posted August 24, 2012 #10 Share Posted August 24, 2012 We are booked on the Breeze going to Aruba, Curacao in 2014 from Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachbum53 Posted August 24, 2012 #11 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I don't like cruising out of San Juan. I prefer a longer cruise from Florida to the Southern Caribbean. Carnival doesn't do those 10 day cruises, but other lines do, so I'll book with them. I'm just having trouble finding a cruise that goes to all the ports I want. San Juan is a great port to visit, but the airport is a giant p.i.t.a. to fly out of at the end of a cruise, since there are also three or four other ships debarking at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrenalineRush Posted August 24, 2012 #12 Share Posted August 24, 2012 San Juan is a great port to visit, but the airport is a giant p.i.t.a. to fly out of at the end of a cruise, since there are also three or four other ships debarking at the same time. Its been years, since 3 or 4 ships sailed out of SJ on the same day. In the winter you will have 2 on sat and 2 on sunday. In the spring/summer..just one on sunday and one on saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ej22ndrow Posted August 24, 2012 #13 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I just got off the Freedom 7/28/12 - 8/5/12. It was 8 days Southern Caribbean out of Fort Lauderdale. We went to Aruba, Curacao, Dominican Republic & Grand Turk. Fabulous itinerary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyrisong1 Posted August 24, 2012 #14 Share Posted August 24, 2012 sail to the southern Caribbean from FL ? You have to fly to San Juan 1stBooked Princess to Aruba , Cauraco , Princess Cay , From Ft Lauderdale in a balcony room .699.00 -7days Cruised Carnival 5 times ,1st one on Princess I wish, wish, wish Carnival would do some 10 and 11 day cruises and go to some of the more Southern and South American ports, we are looking at HAL for next year because of the amazing itens. Carole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dclark Posted August 24, 2012 #15 Share Posted August 24, 2012 As pointed out, they usually have one or two ships doing an 8 dayer to the south. It would take more than that to really get into the south carrib (I did a nine day on Princess last Jan) but the problem here is 8 days- CCl appeals more to people who can only do 7 days. On the 8 days cruises we have done, they were slightly cheaper, on a per day basis, than the 7 day cruises.Add that to the extra fuel cost and you have a profit problem that's why they dropped the run to Panama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg1747 Posted August 24, 2012 #16 Share Posted August 24, 2012 San Juan is a great port to visit, but the airport is a giant p.i.t.a. to fly out of at the end of a cruise, since there are also three or four other ships debarking at the same time. I like San Juan as a port; just not as an embarcation point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillPooh Posted August 24, 2012 #17 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Its been years, since 3 or 4 ships sailed out of SJ on the same day. In the winter you will have 2 on sat and 2 on sunday. In the spring/summer..just one on sunday and one on saturday. There were three in port on the Sunday we sailed and on the Sunday we flew home, this winter. And the airport was a GINORMOUS cluster. I would never do it again, if I could help it. Even if there are only 2, you are still talking about roughly 7000 people coming and another 7 going, all at once. San Juan's airport is woefully ill-equipped to handle that many. We had to sit in it for 5 hours waiting for our departing flight. "Sit" being a figure of speech, since they didn't have remotely enough chairs in the entire terminal for all the people waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tapi Posted August 24, 2012 #18 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Its been years, since 3 or 4 ships sailed out of SJ on the same day. In the winter you will have 2 on sat and 2 on sunday. In the spring/summer..just one on sunday and one on saturday. When I started cruising, San Juan would have 5-6 ships a day on the weekends. I remember seeing 2 Cunard, 1 Costa, 1 Carnival and 1 Royal Caribbean on the same day , and the ships would spend the entire week chasing each other all over the Southern Caribbean. Granted, back then the ships were much smaller. My first cruise was aboard the 16,000 ton Cunard Princess, and we thought she was HUGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaguy22 Posted August 24, 2012 #19 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Another reason is that they are SLOW (22knots). Building a faster ship is not the answer,it would be too expensive to operate.(fuel). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsfromsc Posted August 24, 2012 #20 Share Posted August 24, 2012 We did an 8 day Southern Caribbean cruise from Ft. Lauderdale. I didn't want to fly to San Juan either. It was a good thing because the airlines canceled our flight the night before we were supposed to leave and we had to drive to Ft. Lauderdale. I couldn't have driven to San Juan. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfadj Posted August 24, 2012 #21 Share Posted August 24, 2012 But where do you leave from? Miami, did this on the Valor in Jan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddoc Posted August 25, 2012 #22 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Miami, did this on the Valor in Jan. And a great cruise it was. Would like to do it again. Let us know if you schedule it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfadj Posted August 25, 2012 #23 Share Posted August 25, 2012 And a great cruise it was. Would like to do it again. Let us know if you schedule it. Probably do it on the Breeze down the road a bit possibly Feb 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0mbr3 Posted August 25, 2012 #24 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I just booked a "southern" on the Breeze. It is an 8 day going to Curacao, Aruba and DR. Me too!!! :) .....but I have to wait until February! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROCRUISE Posted August 25, 2012 #25 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I don't like cruising out of San Juan. I prefer a longer cruise from Florida to the Southern Caribbean. Carnival doesn't do those 10 day cruises, but other lines do, so I'll book with them. I'm just having trouble finding a cruise that goes to all the ports I want. Check out Celebrity, Princess, and HAL for some real itineraries in the Caribbean. A slightly older group of passengers,yes, and slightly more expensive too, but well worth it for 10, 12, 14 day cruises. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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