By Dana Niland Cuba Journal Contributor Regent Seven Seas Cruises is adding Cuba calls to six itineraries in the line’s 2018-19 Caribbean season. Travelers can visit Havana on select itineraries aboard Seven Seas Mariner, Seven Seas Voyager and Seven Seas Navigator, which depart Miami from October 2018 through March 2019. Guests on these voyages can … Read more
Grand Circle Cruise Line today announced that it will begin operating Cuba’s Cultural Treasures: A Coastal Voyage, an 11-night, 89-passenger cruise tour from Miami to Cuba in January 2017. Grand Circle will be one of the first cruise lines to operate in Cuba and the only US cruise line to offer a cruise experience with … Read more
Cruising to Cuba is emerging as a desirable way to explore the Caribbean’s largest and fastest growing destination. A new Miami-based cruise line is set to begin new Florida-Cuba itineraries in November – and from Montreal, Canada, to ports in Canada and on the U.S. Great Lakes in July. It will be the first cruise … Read more
Frank Del Rio visited Cuba last year for the first time in 54 years, he told an audience at Travel Weekly’s 2015 CruiseWorld. He is the only one of the major cruise company CEOs born in Cuba, having immigrated to the US in 1961 following the events surrounding the Bay of Pigs debacle. “There may … Read more
Cruise ship behemoth Carnival Corporation today announced it will sail as planned from the U.S. to Cuba with all travelers, including Cuba-born passengers, for the company’s week-long voyages to Cuba. Carnival worked closely with Cuba to allow its cruise ships to operate in a similar manner as current air charter operations to Cuba, starting with … Read more
Carnival Corporation today announced that the company is continuing discussions with Cuba to allow its Cuba cruises to carry all travelers regardless of their country of origin. A Cuban law from the Cold War era restricts sea travel to Cuba for Cuba-born Americans. Fathom will begin sailing its 704-passenger Adonia luxury cruise ship to Cuba … Read more
By the Cuba Journal Staff Fathom, a social impact cruise ship brand owned by the Carnival Corporation, has announced approval from the Cuban government to call on ports in Cuba. Carnival is the first US company to receive Cuban approval since the Cuban revolution in 1959. Cuban approval was the final step remaining for the ambitious … Read more
The 210-passenger luxury ship, Pearl Mist, will not sail to Cuba on March 16 as planned. In a statement by Timothy Beebe, VP of Pearl Seas Cruises, “Pearl Seas Cruises has received notice this morning that the approval meeting of the Cuban government scheduled for today (March 10, 2016) has been postponed until after President … Read more
Cuba cruise firm expands with new offering By Dana Niland Cuba Journal Contributor Group IST (International Specialty Travel) is adding a third small ship to its Havana to Cienfuegos people-to-people cruise program for the November 2016-April 2017 season. With the two vessels sailing the route in the 2015-16 season, Group IST will also offer year-round … Read more
