wakeupscreaming

We are planning a cruise, and it departs from Port Canaveral, Florida.

We will be arriving via plane into Orlando, but will not be traveling to Port Canaveral until Saturday morning, the day the cruise leaves at around 3:30pm.

We'd be traveling from Orlando to Port Canaveral that Saturday morning.

Is this a good idea? I read that it's a 55 minute drive, and there are shuttles? How often do the shuttles come around?

Is it too risky? How soon should we get going in the morning from Orlando to catch a shuttle, and will everyone else be doing the same thing, where the shuttles are overloaded? I'm a little worried about not being close to the cruise terminal the day of it departing.

If you go on NCL, you'll pay almost double the price for the cruise, have a smaller bathroom and a shower you can't even turn around in, and the food will be mediocre and tasteless.

The best entertainment i've ever experienced was on a smaller cruise line called Cuba Cruise. I'm Canadian, so we can travel to Cuba with no worries or hassles. It circumnavigated the entire island of Cuba in 7 days, stopping at ports every single day. The singers and dancers were Cubans, and they all sang live. It was incredible. I was moved by their performances.

I've also noticed since we were last on Carnival, they got rid of the homemade lemonade -- now it's just Nestle crud from dispensing machines. I also noticed less food options on the menu in the dining room. The food in general seemed like it took a small notch down in quality from what I can remember from our previous Carnival cruise.

I'm not sure why they are skimping or cutting corners? They still have the same cheap foreign laborers as before.

Good luck!

Hi, I was wondering if there are any main cruise lines that depart from non-U.S. ports.

The reason being, I'm Canadian. And decades ago, my brother was involved in a kerfuffle with the cops. It was traffic related.

Because of this, he isn't allowed in the u.s. I do not know all the details of what it takes, but all I know is he will not go to the states at all. If he goes on vacation, he goes directly to Mexico, Cuba, etc (yep, us Canadians can go direct to Cuba).

From what I see, so many of the main cruise ships all depart from u.s. ports, and then cruise the caribbean. We'd like to do a cruise (around 7 days) and have our brother along, but he won't be able to.

Thanks for any help.

BM