Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Carnival Cruise Lines and Celebrity Cruises Lines have reconfigured several of their ships schedules for 2009 based on the rising cost of air fares. Cruise Line officials have sited that they have changed where several cruise ships will be departing from based solely on travelers not being able to pay for the airfare to get to the ships that would have been cruising from destinations such as Europe, South America and Australia. Instead these ships will be sailing from and returning to US ports allowing more travelers the luxury of cruise travel without having the extra expense of international air travel cost.
This does assist the cruise lines as well that the ships will sail out fuller due to more people will be able to have access to additional sailings from the United States. Often in high peak travel times such as holidays and summer travel time, cruise passengers have not been able to cruise out of a port closer to home due to a shortage of inventory because of ships departing from international ports.
The US ports that will be seeing an increase of cruise options will be San Juan, Puerto Rico; Miami, FL; Baltimore, MD; Charleston, SC; and San Diego, CA.
So enjoy cruising even more from your own back yard and enjoy more cruise options from US ports.
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