Caribbean Islands Without Cruise Ships

The experience of living without cruise ships for the past year McLaughlin suggested has shown Cayman Islands residents and its leaders that they could survive without mass cruise tourism.

Caribbean islands without cruise ships. So Tortola in the British Virgin Islands may be off-limits for cruise-phobic types but this archipelago of 60-some islands and outcrops still has backwaters. The island is an attraction because weve not had cruise ships Sherman said. Aruba the Bahamas British Virgin Islands Curacao Dominica Haiti Jamaica Martinique Puerto Rico St.

The cruise line is sending four ships to island-hop in the region this season. Barths Saba has no cruise ships and no beaches. The Out Islands of the Bahamas Abacos Exumas Andros Cat Long Eleuthera etc have no cruise ship stops except for a handful of private islands used by the ships and off the land-based.

Guests on Royal Caribbeans Adventure of the Seas learned a week before the lines first voyage out of Nassau that they could explore Cozumel and Grand Bahama Island on their own. Definitely La Desirade is an impeccable secret Caribbean island without cruise ships for crowd free travel. Destinations such as Honduras the Dominican Republic Grand Cayman and Haiti have built or are planning new docking facilities and established.

The good news is that most cruises originating in the US. All cruise ship sailings to the Cayman Islands stopped in February 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and have yet to resume. Close to the Caribbean Sea but not technically in it the Exumas in the Bahamas Out Islands are a string of 365 islands and cays southeast of Nassau that cruise ships blissfully bypass.

Even in Cozumel and other Mexican cities you need to have COVID test prior to leaving. First and foremost visit the island of Anguilla right off the coast of St. Again a ship based excursion would be a way around this.

Citizen but only if you take what is known as a closed loop cruise. Thus a ship based excursion would be a way for cruise lines to avoid that. You can still cruise to the Caribbean without a US.