California cruise port(s)

[salboz]

Is there only one cruise port in California? I can find the Port of Los Angeles, but wonder if there are others since the state is so long. Also wonder about distance from pier to Buena Park.

[sultan_sfo]

Cruises Originating In:

Long Beach -- also in Los Angeles

San Diego

San Francisco

 

Port Calls:

Santa Barbara

Catalina Island

 

Is there only one cruise port in California? I can find the Port of Los Angeles, but wonder if there are others since the state is so long. Also wonder about distance from pier to Buena Park.

[Wineaux]

Is there only one cruise port in California? I can find the Port of Los Angeles, but wonder if there are others since the

state is so long. Also wonder about distance from pier to Buena Park.

 

Roughly 30 miles from Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro) to Buena Park. :)

[Cruisin' Chick]

Close to the Port of Los Angeles is the Port of Long Beach (where the Queen Mary is permanently stationed, right next to the Carnival berth).

[Bruin Steve]

Sort of a rehash of all that's been said...but...

 

California IS a big state with a lot of coastline...and there are many ports...

As far as cruising goes:

Los Angeles is the "big one"...But the port area is also very big--spanning two cities, Long Beach and the San Pedro area of the City of Los Angeles...There are two distinct Cruise Terminals, approximately 6 miles apart, one in San Pedro, on the Western side of the harbor...the other on the Eastern side in Long Beach...The Long Beach terminal is used virtually only by Carnival...With rare exceptions, every other cruise line sails out of the World Cruise Center in San Pedro...Cruises go regularly out of these two terminals to Baja, the Mexican Riviera, Hawaii and up the coast in repositioning cruises and the like...

 

San Diego also has a cruise terminal and has ships going regularly to Baja and the Mexican

Riviera...

 

San Francisco would be the number three cruise port and has a much lesser schedule of cruises--Princess, for example, sails from there on 10 night cruises to the Mexican Riviera--and there are repositioning cruises between Mexico and Alaska that will start or end in San Francisco...

 

Catalina Island (Avalon), 26 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, is a regular port stop on 4-night cruises out of Long Beach (used to be on the RCCL 4 nighters also, before they recently discontinued those)...

 

Other ports that occasionally see cruise ships (usually smaller ships) as stops on Pacific Coast or Repositioning cruises include Port Hueneme, Santa Barbara and Monterey...

 

Any reason you're interested in Buena Park? It's a blue-collar suburban town in inland Orange County most noted for Knott's Berry Farm--an Amusement Park that was developed on the farm of Walter Knott, who ages ago developed the "Boysenberry"--started as a roadside stand to sell canned fruit preserves, then they added a small restaurant selling Mrs. Knott's Chicken dinners...Then Knott built a small train ride to entertain the kids while the families waited for a table...and it took off from there...Way back in another lifetime...Then they got competition a few miles down the road in Anaheim when some guy named Walt Disney started building some competing amusement park...There are a string of fairly cheap motels, some chain restaurants and a few other tacky tourist attractions nearby--like Medeival Times--but it's not the most convenient place to stay if you're really here for a cruise...Stay there only if you're there to visit Knott's...

[cruiserbryce]

one often forgotten calls that is a good one is Catalina Island...usually included on the 4-5 night Baja runs that Carnival does

[polodad]

Princess also runs 10 night cruises to Alaska originating in San Francisco rougly beginning in May thru September.