Carnival and there (4 that r in Florida) little ships and Eastern Caribbean

[CruiseAdict218]

How come the fantasy ships don't stop and St. Maarten and St. Thomas the real Caribbean stops?? But they always do Bahamas and the 5 day Weatern Caribbean. this also goes for the Monarch and Majesty of the Seas and NCL Sky??? Sorry if I sound annoying but I'm a little curious.

[firefly333]

Im guessing the Bahamas charges less for port charges and helps keep the prices down??

 

I know they are very close to Ft. Lauderdale, less than 100 miles, so it saves on fuel for the ships that do the short hops.

[CruiseAdict218]

Makes sence but I wish they would mix it up

[Essiesmom]

The little girls are not as fuel efficient as the big boys, and I think they consider the V.I too far away. EM

[CruiseAdict218]

Oh yeh makes sense but then western 5 day is closer than a 5 day Eastern??

[VolzCruiser]

This might be a good question for Host Mach. He might be able to get an answer from John.

[sharecruises]

Time and distance

 

Logistics....sea miles, cost...fuel....

comfort>> they might be able to go further at full speed but people would be seasick and unhappy

 

Logistics>>the same reason that all of the ports from New York , Baltimore etc are the "same"....reachable

 

I live 50 (nautical) miles from Freeport Bahamas

 

You can go there on little day cruises, or sail a boat there, or go on a charter boat....it really is pretty close

 

If you look at a map of the Caribbean you will see that south florida can "reach" many many places both east and west

(Cuba is sitting there , a big island that the ships go around)

 

On 8 day cruises they can go even further....some ships are on 9 or 10 or 11/12 night cruises from south florida and they do a southern caribbean route

 

otherwise the "southern" routes are available when you leave from Puerto Rico

 

In 3 nights the ships can hit Bahamas (and most of the "private islands" are simply the Bahamas....including Half Moon Cay, Coco Cay, Princess Keys,

Disneys, NCL etc;;;;only Labadee(Haiti) on Royal is not Bahamas.

Grand Turk is also really close

 

 

anyhow...look at a map :) Google is your friend <grin>

[CruiseAdict218]

Time and distance

 

Logistics....sea miles, cost...fuel....

comfort>> they might be able to go further at full speed but people would be seasick and unhappy

 

Logistics>>the same reason that all of the ports from New York , Baltimore etc are the "same"....reachable

 

I live 50 (nautical) miles from Freeport Bahamas

 

You can go there on little day cruises, or sail a boat there, or go on a charter boat....it really is pretty close

 

If you look at a map of the Caribbean you will see that south florida can "reach" many many places both east and west

(Cuba is sitting there , a big island that the ships go around)

 

On 8 day cruises they can go even further....some ships are on 9 or 10 or 11/12 night cruises from south florida and they do a southern caribbean route

 

otherwise the "southern" routes are available when you leave from Puerto Rico

 

In 3 nights the ships can hit Bahamas (and most of the "private islands" are simply the Bahamas....including Half Moon Cay, Coco Cay, Princess Keys,

Disneys, NCL etc;;;;only Labadee(Haiti) on Royal is not Bahamas.

Grand Turk is also really close

 

 

anyhow...look at a map :) Google is your friend <grin>

 

Today in science we got a map for our lab and it showed the caribbean and W.Car. is closer than e. car.