Diamond. LA or Long Beach

[vadim77777]

We will be on Diamond in November and I am wondering where the ship is sailing from? LA or Long Beach?

[spingal]

The Diamond is sailing from San Pedro.

 

Happy Sailing!! :D

[stuartalt]

Both ports are closer to Long beach than LA. The port of LA runs right into Long beach Port.

[SeaDays]

We arrived Saturday into San Pedro on the Diamond from its Vancouver to Los Angeles repositioning cruise.

 

Your question is a good one. When we reserved this cruise, we were under the impression that we would arrive in Long Beach -- a byproduct of the Carnival takeover. But it seems that the City of Los Angeles did some lobbying to keep Princess in San Pedro.

[spingal]

SeaDays,

 

You are correct. The Port of San Pedro signed a deal with Princess. From what I understand, it was an attractive deal so most (if not all) of the Princess ships will sail from San Pedro. And that is a bummer!! :( Long Beach is so much nicer and Carnival built a really neat cruise terminal in the hangar that used to house Howard Hughes plane the Spruce Goose! And the hanger is right next to original Queen Mary.

[joanne1]

Your pier will be San Pedro but definitely fly into Long Beach - 20 minutes, at most, from the time the plane lands, you get your luggage and are in a cab. I was just at LAX this weekend - 2 hours to get from the airport to my destination, West hollywood, with carry-on luggage. Another 2 hours to check in and go through security - total chaos!!

[kkorman]

Part of the problem also is that Long Beach can only handle 1 ship whereas San Pedro can handle several. With Carnival having 2 ships sailing year round, it makes it hard to have it difficult to only have some ships home ported there.