Southern Caribbean

I love it.

Next week I'll be leaving on a trip to the Southern Caribbean with a cruise with my brothers.

So flying or sailing out of Miami.

So we'll fly into Miami.

Where are you going? Um, usually just,

um, Southern Caribbean.

Yeah, it's Eastern.

Sorry.

So, you know, Oceana, Viking, Regent, Silversea, Seabourn.

And many of them have ships that are based in the Southern Caribbean.

And they do kind of what people describe as the yachtsman's business.

So you might fly to San Juan, you might fly to St. Martin, you might fly to Barbados to catch your ship.

And you're going to visit the southern Caribbean islands like St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadalupe, Grenada, the ABC Islands.

And a lot of them are much, much smaller.

And so many of these ships are designed... essentially to drop anchor in the bay just like a yacht and many of them have water sports marinas no yeah that they can lower into the ocean and you can hop off into the ocean and do things what emerald cruises is another option and so you can actually swim right off the ship um you know they have tall ship cruises wind star cruises star clippers are down there And these are not the kind of cruise lines that are going to have kids on board.

The stars for me, you know, it's kind of, kind of in the middle, you know.

It's not Alaska, and it's not Hawaii, and it's not something crazy Southern Caribbean cruise.

But, you know, it's better than some of the other ones I've been on in the area.

So Jeremy, any recommendations for anyone that's going on a cruise for the first time on this class of ship or maybe doing Western Caribbean for the first time? And then what's next on your cruising lineup?

'Cause, like, you see the same places all the time it seems like.

Well, they throw in those one-off, like, 10-night Southern Caribbean cruises, like, once every blue moon.

They do, you know, every once in a while in the fall they do those, you know, for, like they're doing with the Wish, right? They, they're doing like-

Yeah

Talked about Allure.

There's also the Southern Caribbean cruise out of San Juan.

This is going to be March 27th to April the 3rd in 2027.

That one always has pretty reliable demand.

And there's nothing wrong with that if that's what you want.

We don't all have to party all the time.

But out of every sailing that's on the calendar, this Southern Caribbean one out of San Juan is basically like an RSVP cruise, except that they don't do the RSVP branding anymore.

Everything is an Atlantis branded cruise.

No, no.

No, it was the Southern Caribbean trip.

Correct.

Out of, I believe it was either San Juan.

We don't have her year-round.

Uh, but she's not supposed to arrive until Monday, and she'll be coming from the Southern Caribbean as well.

We do not expect that cruise to be, uh, affected in any way whatsoever.

Now, moving through the rest of the cruise lines that call Galveston home, uh, Disney Cruise Line and Margaritaville at Sea are not here right now, so we don't need to worry about them.