What happened to Southern Caribbean Itineraries & Sailings from San Juan PR?

[staceyglow]

53 minutes ago, CruizinSusan70 said:

Many people that cruise on Carnival drive to the port in order to save money. Can't drive to San Juan.

People who live in Puerto Rico can. And there are quite a number of those who like to cruise.

[Illbcruzn4life]

6 hours ago, CruizinSusan70 said:

Many people that cruise on Carnival drive to the port in order to save money. Can't drive to San Juan.

[BlerkOne]

On 2/14/2024 at 9:06 PM, CruiseAdict218 said:

A ship gets bumped however, Elation, Paradise and/or Sunshine will most likely be let go by that point or not too long after. 

Rather ironic if Sunshine went (again). She already did a tour as Destiny.

[BlerkOne]

10 hours ago, staceyglow said:

People who live in Puerto Rico can. And there are quite a number of those who like to cruise.

Yep. And plenty do.

 

Maybe you can't drive from the mainland, but no passport needed to fly to San Juan. or cruise unless a destination port requires.

[CruizinSusan70]

10 hours ago, staceyglow said:

People who live in Puerto Rico can. And there are quite a number of those who like to cruise.

If the bean counters at Carnival thought it was profitable, then there would have been a ship there even on a part time basis.  

If you need to take a 7 day cruise out of San Juan with zero days at sea, there are competitors like  NCL that provide it.

[BlerkOne]

I see one cruise site offering NCL Viva cruises up to 90% off. Wonder what kind of beans they are eating?

[hurricane0226]

45 minutes ago, BlerkOne said:

I see one cruise site offering NCL Viva cruises up to 90% off. Wonder what kind of beans they are eating?

lima beans i guess

[jimbo5544]

Highly discounting cruises from aspecific homeport does show something.  We cruised twice fron San Juan.  Loved them.

[MRVEGAS711]

I see that Virgin Voyages has taken the market and once you get that pier space, you hang on for dear life. Virgin has lousy Ports of Call as they don't have the seniority to get those valuable berths.

[jimbo5544]

59 minutes ago, MRVEGAS711 said:

I see that Virgin Voyages has taken the market and once you get that pier space, you hang on for dear life. Virgin has lousy Ports of Call as they don't have the seniority to get those valuable berths.

They spent a ton in Miami

 

[staceyglow]

10 hours ago, CruizinSusan70 said:

If the bean counters at Carnival thought it was profitable, then there would have been a ship there even on a part time basis.  

If you need to take a 7 day cruise out of San Juan with zero days at sea, there are competitors like  NCL that provide it.

I don't disagree. I was simply responding to the person who basically said that no one can drive to the San Juan port. 

[CruizinSusan70]

25 minutes ago, staceyglow said:

I don't disagree. I was simply responding to the person who basically said that no one can drive to the San Juan port. 

That was me.  San Juan of course is drivable but with a substantially less amount of possible cruisers than the US mainland ports of Galveston, Mobile, Jacksonville, Norfolk, Tampa and Baltimore that Carnival cruises from.

 

What will be interesting to figure out will be where the fourth Excel Class ship will be home porting from.  

[Illbcruzn4life]

13 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

I see one cruise site offering NCL Viva cruises up to 90% off. Wonder what kind of beans they are eating?

and i'll bet that most of the cabins still cost more than their competitors. NCL has some real fuzzy math.

[BlerkOne]

When updates are complete, maybe Carnival will return.

 

https://www.cruisehive.com/san-juan-cruise-port-completes-major-milestone/123461

 

 

[cruisemiluv28]

I really missed that itinerary. Sailed it 3 times. Way better port of calls.