Celeb Cruises Simply Added a New Port in Florida — What to Know

Celeb Cruises set sail from Florida’s Port Canaveral for the primary time ever this week, setting out on a week-long journey to the nice and cozy Caribbean.

The cruise line set sail from its latest homeport on its Celeb Equinox ship on Tuesday, Celeb shared with Journey + Leisure. Vacationers will now have the ability to board seven-night voyages from the central Florida port via April 2025 heading to fashionable locations just like the Bahamas, St. Maarten, Puerto Rico, Belize, and past.

The cruise line will even sail from the port to Royal Caribbean’s personal island, Excellent Day at CocoCay, which Celeb began visiting earlier this 12 months. Each Celeb and Royal Caribbean are a part of the Royal Caribbean Group.

 “At Celeb we’re frequently striving to raise our company’ trip expertise from begin to end, and are delighted to supply much more methods to calm down, unwind and discover the Caribbean,” Laura Hodges Bethge, the president of Celeb Cruises, mentioned in an announcement shared with T+L. “The addition of Port Canaveral presents company the last word flexibility for his or her good Caribbean getaway.” 

On board, the Celeb Equinox welcomes 2,852 company and options greater than 20 meals and beverage choices together with a seemingly infinite array of actions from Pickleball to glass blowing lessons, and extra.

For its half, Port Canaveral sits alongside Florida’s Area Coast and presents entry to fashionable locations like NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle Customer Complicated and Cocoa Seashore. Along with Celeb, the port serves a number of different main cruise traces, together with Carnival Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, and MSC Cruises.

Celeb mentioned it is going to plan to increase its presence on the port in winter 2025 with 7-night sailings on the Celeb Apex, a 2,910-guest ship.

In whole, Celeb sails greater than a dozen ships from its oldest, the Celeb Millennium, to the most recent Celeb Ascent, which launched in 2023 because the fourth ship within the cruise line’s Edge class.