6 Cruise Port Tasks Being Constructed By Cruise Strains within the Caribbean/Bahamas

A lot of cruise traces, together with Royal Caribbean, Carnival Cruise Line, and NCL have new port initiatives which might be both beneath building or deliberate to open over the following few years.

Whereas cruise traces proceed to construct extra ships with new options, they’re additionally engaged on enhancing the port expertise.  This consists of enhancements to ports and constructing new ports for his or her ships to go to.

Here’s a have a look at the entire new port initiatives within the Caribbean and Bahamas that you simply’ll quickly have the ability to take pleasure in. They’re listed by cruise line (alphabetically). 

Carnival Cruise Line

Carnival Cruise Line presently has two port initiatives underway, one on Grand Bahama Island (Celebration Key) and one at Half Moon Cay.

The primary one to open might be Celebration Key and it is going to be the primary cruise port constructed particularly for Carnival cruise ships.

When the port opens, there might be a pier that can have the ability to accommodate two of Carnival’s largest ships on the identical day. A 12 months later, a pier extension might be accomplished that can permit as much as 4 ships to go to on the identical day.

Celebration Key could have a mile lengthy seaside, the most important freshwater pool within the Caribbean/Bahamas, adults solely areas, buying, and extra.

It will likely be divided up into 5 completely different portals, providing a bit of of one thing for everybody.

Celebration Key’s scheduled to open in the summertime of 2025. Nonetheless, the port will simply be getting began then. 

Part 2 of the port is predicted to be accomplished in 2027 and Carnival Cruise Line has beforehand talked about plans so as to add a waterpark to the port that might be a part of this subsequent section.

By 2028, Carnival Cruise Line is anticipating as much as 4 million of their friends to go to Celebration Key yearly.

Round 4 years in the past, Carnival introduced plans to broaden Half Moon Cay and construct a pier on the island. Though the island is owned and operated by sister cruise line Holland America Line, many Carnival cruise ships additionally go to the favored non-public port.

The enlargement plans embrace a totally new space on the island only for Carnival cruise ships, separate from the world that friends go to now.

Cruise Fever reached out to Carnival Cruise Line this week and requested if there was a date set on once they deliberate on opening this new space. A consultant for Carnival responded, “No updates but, however we’ll communicate on it”.

The worldwide cruise shutdown in 2020/2021 delayed the undertaking however Cruise Fever could have all updates on Half Moon Cay when they’re introduced.

Disney Cruise Line

Disney Cruise Line’s second non-public vacation spot in The Bahamas is scheduled to open in June 2024. Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Level might be positioned on Eleuthera, not removed from the place Princess Cays is positioned.

The port could have a pier and pay a tribute to the fantastic thing about nature. It would have the next facilities:

• Household seaside
• Cultural heart
• Play space with water slides
• Video games and actions
• BBQ lunch
• Purchasing
• Child’s membership
• Adults solely seaside
• 3 adult-exclusive watering holes

Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean is constructing Seaside Golf equipment in two completely different ports that might be completely for his or her friends.

Building lately began on the primary one in Nassau, Bahamas. It will likely be positioned on Paradise Island between the long-lasting lighthouse and the Atlantis Resort. It will likely be a 17 acre seaside expertise that can have every part from swimming pools to non-public cabanas.

2,000 friends a day will have the ability to take pleasure in The Royal Seaside Membership Paradise Island. The cruise line will run a shuttle from the cruise pier proper to the Seaside Membership.

A second Seaside Membership might be positioned within the in style port of Cozumel, Mexico.  Virtually all cruises to the Western Caribbean go to Cozumel.

Royal Seaside Membership Cozumel is scheduled to open in 2026 and have the next facilities:

• Swim-up bars
• A number of swimming swimming pools
• Personal cabanas
• Snorkeling
• Kayaking
• Avenue market
• Eating places
• Cooking lessons
• Bars
• And extra

Royal Seaside Membership Cozumel might be positioned on the Western aspect of the island.

Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line’s non-public island in The Bahamas, Nice Stirrup Cay, will quickly have a pier that can get rid of the necessity for tenders to go to the island.

NCL has been in talks to construct a pier on Nice Stirrup Cay for near a 12 months now and so they lastly introduced it final month.

The pier will have the ability to accommodate two giant ships directly and is scheduled to be accomplished by the top of 2025.