Costa Cruises
Italian-flavored Costa Cruises' 2006-07 schedule includes 7-day Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises on Costa Magica and Costa Mediterranea, both home ported in Ft. Lauderdale. The Magica also will sail between Ft. Lauderdale and Bermuda in April 2007. The Costa Atlantica will sail from Guadeloupe.
New destinations for Costa Mediterranea include the Roatan Islands in Honduras, and Grand Turk is new for the Costa Magica.
Cunard
The grand Queen Mary 2 will sail a dozen of Connoisseur's Caribbean cruises from New York in 2007 and 2008, all 10-day itineraries with port calls as far south as Barbados. Other stops include Road Town, Tortola; Basseterre, St. Kitts, Castries, St. Lucia, and Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. The QM2 also will depart on six 4-day Getaway voyages, including four holiday-weekend trips from New York to Eleuthera, Bahamas, and one department from Fort Lauderdale. A pair of 8-day Caribbean trips also are scheduled for QM2.
The Queen Elizabeth 2 will work Caribbean stops into a 16-day April 2007 crossing from Southampton to New York, and depart on a 21-day Caribbean Calypso voyage in December.
In December 2007, Cunard will launch the new, 90,000-ton Queen Victoria.
Disney Cruise Lines
Disney Cruise Lines is adding a new western Caribbean itinerary and its first 10- and 11-night cruises in 2006. The Disney Magic's new seven-night itinerary will now include two stops at the private Castaway Cay in the Bahamas as well as port calls in Costa Maya and Cozumel. This alternative itinerary will sail every fourth week between May 27 and Dec. 9, 2006.
The Disney Wonder, which previously sailed only 3- and 4-night trips to the Bahamas, will inaugurate a 10- and 11-night cruises in September, with port calls in St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Barbados, Antigua, St. Kitts and Castaway Cay. Barbados and St. Kitts are new ports of call for Disney.
