Difference in passengers from different ports?

[MommaBear55]

Just wondering if people notice a difference in passenger type coming out of ports on the East coast? We sail RCCL ships. On a 14 day repo cruise out of Boston we were the "young" ones at 57 and 64. We are coming into Baltimore on a repo from PR in May. Is it a busier/noisier group out of Baltimore or NJ? We are looking to do a cruise to Bermuda.

[Got2Cruise]

I don't think it is necessarily the port, but the itinerary and time of year the cruise is. TA attracts an older demographic no matter which port it leaves from.

Just wondering if people notice a difference in passenger type coming out of ports on the East coast? We sail RCCL ships. On a 14 day repo cruise out of Boston we were the "young" ones at 57 and 64. We are coming into Baltimore on a repo from PR in May. Is it a busier/noisier group out of Baltimore or NJ? We are looking to do a cruise to Bermuda.

[CruiserBruce]

Agree. It is more likely length of cruise that determines demographic, not port from which you are sailing. Shorter= younger.

[maryred]

I will disagree slightly with the other posters. Yes the departure ports and the cruise line do make a bit of difference regarding what personality types, but that all depends on your own outlook if you will tend to notice it. Many of the passengers on a ships' normal 4 to 8 day vacation itineraries, as opposed to a repo or TA, will have more of the local port's general attitude and a mix of demographics.

We've cruised out of FL, NYC, NJ, and Baltimore. In years gone by there were very few vacation cruises outside of FL and CA, so people from the rest of the country needed to travel, some at great lengths, to get to an embarkation port so you the demographic of the cruise were more defined by cruise length and destination ports. Personally since "Homeport" cruising has expanded over the years we will no longer consider cruising from any where we can't easily drive to.

These days you can find as many senior citizens on a 4 day cruise out of NYC or Boston to Canada as young families during the summer. And conversely you will find more families on longer cruises that leave locally to other destinations (as long as they return to the original port) since they are saving on airfares.

[marco]

I think departure ports influence "personality types" and overall demographics of those onboard for sailing out of the US when there are (or aren't) alternative options. IE: A Caribbean cruise out of NY/NJ or a Fla port compared to say, a Bermuda cruise. Other than an occasional sailing out of Baltimore, Charleston and the like, NY/NJ/Boston pretty much have the monopoly, if you will, on weekly sailings to Bermuda. So...pretty much if anyone from anywhere wanting to go to Bermuda, would have to sail out of NY/NJ/Boston. If you want to take a Caribbean cruise, especially in the winter months, most of the folks on a ship out of NY/NJ probably live within a 3-4 hr or so drive of the port. Most folks who would have to fly to a port regardless, would probably opt for a Fla departure. We've sailed several times in the past few years out of NY/NJ to the Caribbean in the winter months and the majority of the passengers were from within a few hrs of NYC, we've sailed to Bermuda out of NY and it was a much broader mix.