The Caribbean has experienced significant closures and rescheduling of cruise ships, with some ports remaining closed for the near future. The only fully closed completely port in the Caribbean is Caymans, while virtually every other cruise port is open and accepting cruise ships. Some ports in the Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, and other destinations are open, while some in areas severely damaged by hurricanes like Puerto Rico are open.
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) announced the reopening of Jamaica’s cruise ports following Hurricane Beryl on July 3. However, the Caribbean Island nations of Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire denied permission to cruise ships to dock in their ports. This situation began this week when the Caribbean Island nations of Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire all denied permission to cruise ships to dock in their ports.
Canceled ports are part of cruising, but Royal Caribbean (RCL) has made clear that it will not stop sailing to one of its private cruise ports, Labadee, located on a peninsula in northern Haiti. The Antigua Cruise Port, located in St. Johns, Antigua, is open to Royal Caribbean passengers and employees and has private security on site.
In summary, the closure of ports has had a significant impact on the Caribbean region, with many popular cruise ports being closed due to hurricanes. However, most cruise ports in the Caribbean and Mexico are open to cruise ships, and some ships or passengers may still be denied entry.
📹 Which Cruise Ports Will Open First
Which Cruise Ports Will Open First? There have been a few cruise ports saying they will not bring cruise ships back this year.
📹 Which Caribbean Cruise Ports are Open?
Weeks after Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the Caribbean, cruise ports are some of the first major tourism hubs to re-open.
Don, the major issue with cruising is that the highest percentage of the passengers are drawn from the two countries with high infections; only 1 asymptomatic person whose temperature is good and he is feeling well, can be catastrophic for the ship and the country the vessel visited. FYI people Ships and aircraft did not cause the virus BUT they were the mediums for transporting it across borders.
There are a few cruise ports that don’t deserve to see a resumption of cruising. I couldn’t care less if my ship sailed in giant figure eight for 3or4 nights I’m ready Ready to cooperate with social distancing requirements. I’ll wear a face mask I’ll use the Hand Sanitising Stations I just want to cruise.🍔🌭🍿🍷🍺🥂
I read where Governor of Quintana Roo, MX says open up June 1 for ALL travellers. So this means Cancun, Cozumel, Costa Maya, etc. Also read where some resorts, hotels, dive shops, may not open until June 21. Check with your destination property. If interested….American has flight from DFW to Cozumel.
Sadly we have made our decision and have pulled the plug on cruising. Not knowing what the world will look like in a year, we cancelled our July 2021 Alaska cruise. Celebrity already cancelled our June 2020, 10-night Bermuda cruise was cancelled There is no fear of the virus for either of us. The three major factors are life on a ship going forward, air fare cost & availability of flights, Alaska tourism (will dog sled camps, float planes & helicopters survive?). I’m frustrated with the social BS we deal with here in Connecticut but when traveling to another state or country one will have to know what the local custom is. We went on 5 cruises some years ago and I prefer to remember cruising as it was. I’ll still follow your website to keep up with the cruise scene.
This clown does not even bother read his own website comments as he would know that air travel brings in a lot more money than cruising with hotel use and much more time for shopping eating and drinking with far less risk, far more likely to have at least one passenger with Covid 19 with an average of 3000 passengers and another 1000 crew vs 300 on an aircraft and everyone knows airport screening is far more strict than ports. Keep doing the cruise propaganda!
Latest news from Australia. At this stage ( and this may change at any stage ) the government has announced that cruising may restart on 17th September this year. Obviously subject to change and no comment on if the Trans Tasman bubble will go ahead for cruising to NZ or the cruising will be only around Australia and in Australian waters only .
I live in Sydney Australia and right now we can’t even go interstate out of NSW, we are now just told we can visit places in our own state, or just Victoria so cruising here is still a very big no 🇦🇺🙏 can’t see it happening till next year here, but who knows everyday things are changing rapidly from day to day
Love the hat. It’s cute. And the bangs combed down makes you look younger! Keep this look it perks us up! As for cruising; I used to live in the Bahamas for years and hurricane season is less than ideal for travel there. Wait til October or even better November. However, are the islands going to do anything to address the Covid crisis? Meaning precautions taken? These governments are notoriously sketchy at best.
Hey Don, Can you find up what’s up with an ugly rumor I heard yesterday. I own Carnival as well as Royal Caribbean stock. In the past, I always got a $100 OBC for a week cruise, and a $250 for 14 day + cruises as a stockholder. Now I heard, that in the future, this will no longer be the case. I own a lot of shares in each company. The stock has already been beaten to hell, and Now This. Please tell me it’s not true?
Don’t expect Australia or NZ to open their boarders for cruise ships anytime soon. Earliest will be next year. In my opinion. We are booked on the Serenade sailing ex Hawaii 17 Sept arriving Australia 5th Oct via NZ. RCL still have not cancelled the cruise, neither Hawaii, NZ or Australia ports are open. 1st July our full payment is due. I’m not happy to pass over my hard earned money only to be told 1 month later its cancelled and we have to wait 4 months for a refund. I do love cruising but I would love more communication about my trip. I know you have to follow the CDC rulings. Cancel now so people can plan their life.
Are countries seriously considering letting ships originating from the USA dock? Until the US gets a handle on the pandemic it’s citizens shouldn’t be traveling the world. It seems that almost every country has worked very hard indeed to fight this pandemic with promising results whilst the USA arrogantly does its own thing. I live in Canada and hope our border remains closed or all our hard work will be for naught.
As for Canada closing their port, it will reopen, just not this year! The US handling of the virus as an outsider looking in is downright SCARY!!!! Once the rater of infected vs recovered cases is better, then the ports will open up again. The numbers of cases in Canada is dramatically less than in the US. If we don’t want a huge ” second wave ” to hit in Canada, our officials say ” no unnecessary ” admittance. And on another note, your dealing with British Columbia lol. They are famous for doing antics like this!!!!
News from the Caymans yesterday, maybe not even Sept 1 ! Cayman’s borders could remain closed beyond 1 Sept., Premier Alden McLaughlin said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, Cabinet agreed that Cayman’s borders will remain closed until 30 Aug. But, at Tuesday’s COVID-19 press briefing, the premier warned, “Given what I and everybody else is seeing in the United States, the September 1st reopening date is not looking good.” On Tuesday, Cayman’s coronavirus cases reached 111 as Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Lee announced 17 positive cases, the highest total released in one day. Those results were from 1,182 tests that were processed over the long weekend. McLaughlin said the positive cases rate remains “very low”, at 1.4% of those tested. Asked about the likely date for reopening the borders, the premier said, “It depends on how well things go not just here, but elsewhere.”
I’m sorry and I feel bad for many people that depend on cruise lines, but there’s no way I’m planning on going on a cruise line this whole year if not a bit more. In my opinion cruise lines will get hit hard, because I hope the majority of human beings have a brain, and nobody should be traveling in cruise ships for a while. If you do travel, you’re a reckless person that has no sympathy for others. No matter how pretty and safe cruise lines an port authorities picture me that is good to take a cruise ship, it’s just not happening.
That one month for the Canadian port dies effect my August cruise. I’m wishing Celebrity had just cancelled their whole Alaska season. Instead I’m still on tender hooks waiting for what I’m pretty sure will be a cancellation. I don’t want to lose my airfare, so I’m waiting for my trip insurance to reimburse me after the cancellation.
Everybody has their favorite cruise lines and cruise ports, all for good reasons and personal preference. For us it is Port Canaveral, Fl (only a 2 two hour drive from our house) Port Canaveral serves RCCL, Norwegian, Carnival and is the home port for Disney which is only 45 miles from Walt Disney World. Those of us in Florida are fortunate to also have a governor who is working hard with the entire travel industry to get this important industry open and working
You failed to mention Alaska will be hit the hardest, most of our state tourism happens in a short season, Basically early may until late September, and that’s primarily cruise ship visitors, bet most of you cruise travelers have no idea that Alaska is now the second most popular cruise destination in the world, plus our other tour businesses rely mostly from cruise ship passengers doing excursions up here, fishing, whale perusal, wilderness lodgesetc… the small company’s are basically done for the summer, and little if any income is occurring during our winter,unlike other states that have other money makers to fall back on, Alaska doesn’t! Even our largest resource oil is cutting back with oil prices being so low, laying many in that industry off, other then that we only have commercial fishing and that is seasonal, and we already have cannery workers testing positive for the virus in small fishing communities and the season is just starting, the state might shut it down!
I bought a Viking cruise in July. I want it canceled and I want my money back. It would be impossible to social distance. Most if the others are American and they have poor control and still increasing number of deaths. Do people want to die just to cruise. Are you nuts? You want to be in tight cabins or tour busses with potentially infected Americans. No way!
Don what you haven’t said was the West Coast of United States and Mexico. You haven’t even mentioned about Alaska or Vancouver. True the west coast is still slowly trying to deal with the Covid19 and we have yet out here and the California are yet to open up our ports not just yet. A few of the counties in California had pushed Governor Newsom to open up Phase 2. That doesn’t include tourism or entertainment or even cruising yet. They have to see what the numbers are so far. They’re not even sure if they’re going to be opening up stuff for July 4th yet. Don, phase 3 has star hair stylist oh, and we don’t even have those guys ready yet under Phase 2 but we have our dining restaurants with special guidelines. Okay mandatory guidelines. Which means I can’t even get my damn haircut yet and you’re complaining about yours?? If I could send you a picture of what I look like…….