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USA Cruise Ship Ports in Florida
Florida cruise departure ports, the USA cruise ports in Florida. The major Florida cruise ports and lines information, highlights, and most popular things to do before you embark, or after you disembark some of the best USA cruise ships out of Florida. Click here for Information about Cruises out of Florida ports.
The map of Florida ports of call also features the Key West Island (13,6 sq km) - 3 piers, over 0,5 million passengers a year. Generally visited on short trips to the Bahamas from all the major Florida shipping ports. All the best Florida cruise ships ports boast perfect beaches, numerous best dining, entertainment, and accommodation options, top-notch cruise terminals, huge parking areas or multi-storey garages - with 24-hr controlled security, and able to accommodate RVs and buses.
Port of Miami Cruise Ships Lines (Miami home-ported ships) - Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, NCL, Costa, Crystal, Oceania, Windjammer Barefoot. The busiest in the world (over 4 million passengers), mostly 3-4-7-day sailings, also 10-11 day by luxury lines, to all Caribbean, Central America (rarely to South America), and USA East Coast, Transatlantic to Europe, and Panama Canal - with the cruise ships repositioning. Highlights, and things to do before the cruise - shopping (Bayside Marketplace), dining and entertainment (the Ocean Drive complex - shops, clubs, restaurants), the Miami Seaquarium, and the trip to Parrot Jungle Island (numerous exotic animals and plants).
Port of Tampa Cruise Ships Lines - (Tampa home-ported ships) - Carnival, Royal Caribbean, NCL, HAL, Celebrity. Mostly Western Caribbean with Mexico Riviera Maya (always calling on Cozumel), Belize, and Panama, also trips to Jamaica (NCL). The Carnival is the first line from Tampa. Highlights: the Florida Aquarium, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the Channelside complex (shopping and entertainment), the historic Ybor City area, the Busch Gardens, Lowry Park Zoo, the "Museum of Science and Industry". Tampa is one of the fastest growing US cities, now ranking in the "high sufficiency city" category, and by wealth, such major metropolises, like Phoenix (Arizona), and Osaka (Japan).
Port of Ft Lauderdale Cruise Ships Lines from Port Everglades - the 3th bussiest in the world, 11 cruise terminals, over 3 million passengers a year, 2 huge parking areas (from the airports of Ft Lauderdale - 3km, and from Miami - 50km). Highlights: hundreds of miles of natural and artificial canals and waterways (Ft Lauderdale day cruise trips by a riverboat), the John U. Lloyd Beach park, shopping at "Las Olas Boulevard" (premium boutiques), and at the Swap Shop (flea market), the "Museum of Discovery and Science", the "Bonnet House" estate, the "Butterfly World".
Port Canaveral Cruise Ships Lines - Disney, Carnival, Royal, NCL (the 2nd busiest in the world, over 4 million passengers, 6 terminals - 3 North, and 3 South, each with its own parking area), the feature Disney cruise departure port (terminal 8), 3 huge public parks, numerous dining, entertainment, and recreation options, biking, fishing, the Brevard County and the Jetty Park beach area (a wildlife preserve, great nightlife, flight-boat trips, "Kennedy Space Center", the "Astronaut Hall of Fame"). The port is at 45min drive distance from the Orlando themed parks, and at 7km from the "surfers mecca" - the Cocoa Beach.
Port of Jacksonville Cruise Carnival Lines - the Carnival JAXPORT Cruise Terminal is located in North Jacksonville, cruise parking information - price $15 PP per day, $25 for RVs), a feature Carnival Cruise Port, home-port of the Fascination ship for regular cheap trips to Bahamas with Key West, Nassau, Freeport, and the line's Half Moon Cay private island.
Bahamas cruise West Palm Beach Port - the home-port of the Bahamas Celebration line (1-ship line with year-round sailings to Bahamas). The population of this small town triples with the visitors during the summer season, and among the renown guests are some of the most famous billionaires and business tycoons of the US. Some of the most popular fashion, design and architecture, radio and TV, and music and art icons also visit their seasonal estates in Palm Beach.