Transatlantic Round-Trip Cruise

[bver911]

Hi everyone! We live in southeast Florida (not far from Port Everglades). We are looking to do a Transatlantic cruise in 2023.

 

We are wondering if anyone has or knows about a round-trip Transatlantic cruise. Trying to avoid flying across the Atlantic. We know this might be a shot in the dark, but thought we'd ask anyway.

 

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

[basenji56]

Cunard 

[Rob_H]

If you don't want to travel Cunard (which doesn't have any port stop on the way) look for a ship going the "wrong way" (not the usual seasonal migration between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean), and connect it with a normal transatlantic before or after.  

 

For example, the Norwegian Sun last month (which we were on) went from Miami to Lisbon to reposition there for the winter.  Many people on our ship then took a different transatlantic back the other way afterwards - Europe to North America - as there are many that time of year.

 

An example later next year would be the Carnival Freedom that goes from Port Canaveral to Barcelona on Sep 21, arriving Oct 4. Returns include Holland America from Amsterdam on Oct 7, Princess from Southampton on Oct 9, Celebrity from Barcelona on Oct 19.

 

 

Edited December 27, 2022 by Rob_H

[TheOldBear]

59 minutes ago, bver911 said:

Hi everyone! We live in southeast Florida (not far from Port Everglades). We are looking to do a Transatlantic cruise in 2023.

 

We are wondering if anyone has or knows about a round-trip Transatlantic cruise. Trying to avoid flying across the Atlantic. We know this might be a shot in the dark, but thought we'd ask anyway.

 

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

We have done three round trip transatlantic sailings so far (2017, 2019 & this past autumn ) and have a reservations in place for another in 2024.

 

All of these have been on Cunard's QM2. We were initially looking at a fly east and sail west trip, but after looking at the logistics and prices decided that round trip sailings were a better fit (no flying, no need for hotel stays, unpack _once_)

 

You can elect sailings of different total lengths from the basic 14 day NYC round trip - with just a Southampton turn around day - to much longer sailings incorporating Southampton round trips. As an example, our recent 26 night trip included a 12 night Southampton to Norway round trip. 

[Hlitner]

We have done 6 round trip TA cruises, but 4 of those times we did it with different ships.  We would do a TA cruise in the spring to get to Europe and then spend several weeks doing our own thing.  Eventually we would make our way to a port (generally different from where we debarked) for a cruise home.  In the summer one can return with Cunard and there are sometimes other options with lines like HAL which might have a cruise heading to the USA (which often involves Iceland and sometimes Greenland).

 

A few years ago, we were fans of HAL's "Grand Mediterranean cruise which was usually about 60 days long and round trip from Port Everglades.  Another HAL option is their annual Voyage of the Vikings cruise (about 35-40 days long) which is round trip from Boston.

 

We almost did a round trip trans Pacific but finally decided to fly home from New Zealand rather than make our way back to Australia to catch a return cruise.

 

Hank

[woozles]

We are looking at a transatlantic on Carnival Freedom in September 2023 and I happen to notice it is sailing back to port canaveral in late Oct. Unfortunately I can't take that much time off, but you would have about 3 weeks in between the two.

[TheOldBear]

Its an _minor_ point, but my view of a round trip is the assumption that you are only embarking and disembarking once - not a succession of sailings and land excursions that end up back home. That series may work out better for some folks, and fit their budgets [money and time] well but I would not call it a round trip. 

[WisRiver]

You can do the Holland America Voyage of the Vikings.  I am not sure about the 2023 itinerary, but in 2019 we left from Boston, visited the Maritimes, Iceland and Norway, and ended in Rotterdam.  After a day in Rotterdam, we reversed the itinerary and ended in Boston.  Otherwise you could leave from FLL on Holland America in the spring,, spend the summer in Europe and come back in the fall.  There are worse ways of spending the summer.  

 

We have done six transatlantic in the past ten years.  We have to fly one way ( Icelandair seems to have the best one way fares).  

[Cruise Kay]

You can take something over to Europe that ends in England (Southampton), then take Cunard back on one of their Transatlantic's. Having said that, there may be several days or even several weeks between the dates.

[SPacificbound]

We have done many crossings on Queen Mary 2 for trips to or from Europe, because I really don't like flying. Every trip we have made to Europe beginning in 2015 have been a TA on a cruise ship going one way and Queen Mary 2 going the other. QM2 crosses often enough it's not too difficult to book at all, you just need to have the time to travel that way.

[cementhands]

On 12/27/2022 at 9:15 AM, bver911 said:

Hi everyone! We live in southeast Florida (not far from Port Everglades). We are looking to do a Transatlantic cruise in 2023.

 

We are wondering if anyone has or knows about a round-trip Transatlantic cruise. Trying to avoid flying across the Atlantic. We know this might be a shot in the dark, but thought we'd ask anyway.

 

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

New York City Cunard! Or take a transatlantic to Europe and use Cunard back to New York City and then get back to Florida. Round trips don’t exist anywhere else, or prove me wrong. Unless you want a transatlantic out of Boston through Iceland on hAL. Expensive 

[Hlitner]

Oct 10, 2023, HALs Zuiderdam embarks at Ft Lauderdale and returns to Ft Lauderdale......73 days later 🙂  Sometimes you have to think out of the box.   

 

How about Sept 21 embarkation from Port Canaveral to Barcelona (13 days).  Then make your way north to Amsterdam and take the Oct 7 Rotterdam cruise back to Ft Lauderdale.  or...head over to England (you can use the train via the Chunnel) and catch the Oct 9 Regal Princess cruise back to Ft Lauderdale.

 

So many choices and we have only looked at a few weeks in the Fall of this year.  DW and I used to do this kind of thing once a year (just for fun since we have no problem flying).  

 

Hank

[SPacificbound]

There is sort of a round trip TA on RCCL Adventure of the Seas with two weeks in between.

Eastbound October 25, 2024 out of Port Canaveral, FL 13 nights to Lisbon.

Westbound November 24, 2024 out of Barcelona, 13 nights to Port Canaveral.

 

 

[Incognito1]

We are doing Princess Ft. Lauderdale - Southampton (4/16-4/30), and returning a few weeks later on Carnival Venezia (5/29-6/13).  This is only possible because it's Venezia's first run.  There are a few other TAs heading to Europe that could shorten the time between the trips - though we're doing an Iceland/Scotland cruise inbetween.

 

There's RCCL May 1-12 (jab required) or

Disney May 7-20 (twice as much $)

NCL Apr 22-May 7

 

That's just a sampling.  April/May is when a lot of cruise ships head to Europe.  What makes it good is the Venezia heading back.  We paid about the same amount for the cruise back as what airline tix would cost.