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Holland America Line Planning Caribbean Return

Princess Cruises Is Relaunching in the Caribbean

Princess Cruises is set to relaunch its Caribbean cruises this fall, the company said this week. That will include sailings on the company’s Enchanted Princess, Sky Princess, Regal Princess and Caribbean Princess ships. Enchanted Princess will begin with two new …

Seabourn Plans July Relaunch in the Caribbean

Luxury cruise line Seabourn will relaunch its Caribbean cruises in July, the company said this week. The company’s Seabourn Odyssey ship will kick off Caribbean cruising in Bridgetown, Barbados on July 18. Seabourn is opening its Seabourn Odyssey voyages to …

Royal Caribbean to Relaunch with Bahamas Cruise in July

Royal Caribbean will be officially restarting its Caribbean cruise operations in July with a special cruise to The Bahamas. The cruise giant will relaunch July 2 with a sailing of its Freedom of the Seas ship from Miami to the …

Caribbean Cruises Are Back: Celebrity Kicks Off 7-Night Sailing in St Maarten

The first Caribbean cruise in more than a year officially set sail this weekend in St Maarten. Celebrity Millennium kicked off a seven-night sailing from the Port of St Maarten on Saturday, a return for the cruise industry in the …

Seabourn Is Relaunching Cruises From Barbados

Another cruise line is planning a restart from within the Caribbean, Caribbean Journal has learned. Following a number of major cruise lines that have launched homeporting in the Caribbean with the CDC’s no-sail order still in effect in the United …

Crystal Symphony Will Be Homeporting in Antigua

Crystal Cruises is continuing its Caribbean homeporting push, with plans to homeport the Crystal Symphony cruise ship in Antigua and Barbuda. Crystal Symphony, which will sail a series of 15 10-night Caribbean cruises from St John’s, will be the first-ever …

Norwegian Cruise Line Is Relaunching in the Caribbean

Norwegian Cruise Line is relaunching operations in the Caribbean. And continuing the post-pandemic trend, the cruise line will begin by homeporting a pair of ships in the region. That will include Norwegian Joy, which will homeport in Montego Bay, and …

Windstar Planning to Relaunch Caribbean Cruises

Boutique firm Windstar Cruises is relaunching its Caribbean operations, the company said this week. The company will be resuming cruises with a vaccination requirement for all guests. “Looking at the science behind the virus, we see consistent recommendations for wearing …

Royal Caribbean to Launch Cruises From Bermuda

Royal Caribbean will be launching cruises this summer out of a new homeport: Bermuda. Continuing a trend of cruise lines launching from new homeports with the CDC still banning U.S.-based cruises, the cruise giant will run a series of seven-night …

Crystal Cruises Breaks Single-Day Record With Bahamas Launch

Crystal Cruises set a new single-day record for bookings with the launch last week of its new cruises in The Bahamas. The company said almost 4,000 guests reserved staterooms or suites for one of its new seven-night voyages that cruise …

Royal Caribbean to Resume Cruises in The Bahamas

The Bahamas is the new epicenter of Caribbean cruising. Royal Caribbean is returning to Caribbean cruising this summer, becoming the second major cruise line to homeport in Nassau. The cruise line will be launching a series of seven-night cruises on …

Celebrity to Relaunch Cruises From St Maarten

Celebrity Cruises will be relaunching operations out of the island of St Maarten in June, the company announced this week. The move to a Caribbean homeport follows last week’s announcement by Crystal Cruises that would relaunch cruises with a homeport …

Crystal Is Relaunching Cruises in The Bahamas This Summer

Luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises will soon become the first cruise line to return to the Caribbean since the pandemic, with a new Bahamas-only itinerary exclusively for vaccinated travelers. The program, which launches this summer, is called Bahamas Escapes, and …

Royal Caribbean Cruises Rebrands

Royal Caribbean Cruises has a new name. The cruise giant has rebranded itself as the Royal Caribbean Group, the company said this week. “The name is simpler, fresher and more modern. It’s also more descriptive—Royal Caribbean Group sounds like a parent company …

P&O Cruises Extends Pause to October

P&O Cruises is extending its pause in operations until Oct. 15, the company announced in a statement. P&O Cruises, whose global cruise network includes sailings in the Caribbean, said it was working “in close coordination with all relevant public health …