Any cruises that stop at Key West but leave from East Coast???

[amandajean06]

Hello friends,

 

I have been to Key West on a Carnival cruise before I met my husband, and he is very interested in stopping there on our next one together. On our first cruise together, our itinerary was changed last minute and Carnival dropped KW, and DH was SO disappointed. We prefer to drive to port, and east coast embarkation is much easier for us to do so as we are from north-central Indiana. Does anyone know if there are any ships that call at Key West, but don't leave from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, etc.? I have tried to look but may be missing something. Thank you in advance!

[perditax]

Hello friends,

 

I have been to Key West on a Carnival cruise before I met my husband, and he is very interested in stopping there on our next one together. On our first cruise together, our itinerary was changed last minute and Carnival dropped KW, and DH was SO disappointed. We prefer to drive to port, and east coast embarkation is much easier for us to do so as we are from north-central Indiana. Does anyone know if there are any ships that call at Key West, but don't leave from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, etc.? I have tried to look but may be missing something. Thank you in advance!

 

Well, there aren't that many east-coast ports outside of Florida that have significant variety of ships. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the big ones are NY/NJ, with a scattering from Boston and Baltimore. Charleston SC basically has one Carnival ship going at a time (usually the oldest in the fleet), but if you were going to drive all the way to SC, might as well go to FL.

 

I'd look at a site with a robust search engine like the big bulk store that we're not allowed to name, or cruise ... plum, and put in the departure ports and dates that you're interested in, and then I suppose you just have to comb through every itinerary. Or I suppose get a travel agent to do it.

 

OR ... I guess you could look at the port schedule for KW and work backwards to see where those ships sailed from.

 

Example:

 

http://ports.cruisett.com/schedule/United_States_Of_America/336-Key_West_Florida/January_2016

[Hidden Minnie]

It looks like Royal has some cruises on the Grandeur out of Baltimore that stop at Key West....

[navybankerteacher]

It looks like Royal has some cruises on the Grandeur out of Baltimore that stop at Key West....

 

Aside from RC Grandeur from Baltimore, it seems that a Princess sailing from New York is the only itinerary from a northeast port stopping in Key West - but then you would have to get yourself back from Australia.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Holland America

From Ft Lauderdale -- 7 & 14 day cruises

Eurodam

Nieuw Amsterdam

From Tampa -- 7 and 14 day cruises

Veendam

[Essiesmom]

Go to http://www.cruisetimetables.com and plug in Key West on the Ports of Call/destinations list. It will tell you who calls there, and their itineraries. EM

Edited December 11, 2015 by Essiesmom

[Keith1010]

Sometimes cruises from New York to Los Angeles stop at Key West.

 

Often Western Caribbean Cruises out of Florida stop there.

 

Keith

[zqvol]

Hello friends,

 

I have been to Key West on a Carnival cruise before I met my husband, and he is very interested in stopping there on our next one together. On our first cruise together, our itinerary was changed last minute and Carnival dropped KW, and DH was SO disappointed. We prefer to drive to port, and east coast embarkation is much easier for us to do so as we are from north-central Indiana. Does anyone know if there are any ships that call at Key West, but don't leave from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, etc.? I have tried to look but may be missing something. Thank you in advance!

 

 

See if there is something out of New Orleans or Mobile, that would be an even easier drive.

[perditax]

(I misread it the first time through as well, but OP is looking for cruises that do not depart from Florida.)

Edited December 11, 2015 by perditax

[SailBadtheSinner]

from the CC Find a Cruise.

 

SBtS

[amandajean06]

Thanks, everyone, for the helpful responses. Yes, we are trying to avoid Florida, to make it the shortest drive possible. =)

[amandajean06]

Go to http://www.cruisetimetables.com and plug in Key West on the Ports of Call/destinations list. It will tell you who calls there, and their itineraries. EM

 

Awesome, and easy! Thank you!

[navybankerteacher]

See if there is something out of New Orleans or Mobile, that would be an even easier drive.

 

OP was talking about East coast -not Gulf coast. Baltimore would be about 450 miles from northern Indiana -- New Orleans about 840 miles.

[zqvol]

OP was talking about East coast -not Gulf coast. Baltimore would be about 450 miles from northern Indiana -- New Orleans about 840 miles.

 

 

No the OP said NOT Florida.

[navybankerteacher]

No the OP said NOT Florida.

 

The title of OP's post was: "Any cruises that stop at Key West but leave from East Coast???"

[dorisis]

Holland America

From Ft Lauderdale -- 7 & 14 day cruises

Eurodam

Nieuw Amsterdam

From Tampa -- 7 and 14 day cruises

Veendam

 

We just took a cruise out of Tampa on RCs Vision OYS that stopped at KW.

[SailBadtheSinner]

The OP's question is -

 

...... Does anyone know if there are any ships that call at Key West, but don't leave from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, etc.? ........

 

SBtS