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Cruise Port Notes - Vancouver
Description
There are 2 cruise ports in Vancouver.
Canada Place, near the center of the city, and Ballantyne, a mile east of the city center. To make things easier at Alaskan ports, a US Customs desk clears passengers prior to embarkation in Vancouver. As an alternative US passengers transferring from the airport can follow the US Direct Program, ( Read more... ) -
Cruise Port Notes - Seattle
Description
Seattle has two cruise ship ports, the more popular city center Bell Street Terminal, and the Smith Cove Piers, 3 miles north of downtown. Cruise Terminals of America, who lease the properties from the Port of Seattle, run both cruise ship terminals.
Bell Street Terminal
The Bell Street Pier cruise port was opened in 2000 as part of an 11 ( Read more... ) -
Cruise Port Notes - Palma De Mallorca
Description Palma’s port’s main cruise terminals are the numbers 1 to 4 which access ships moored at the Poniente and Paraires quays. The Poniente pier is undergoing lengthening in 2012. Services include office, restrooms, cafeteria, customs, telephone kiosks, post office and police station. The Poniente quay is about a mile and a half to the ( Read more... ) -
Cruise Port Notes - Venice
Description Venice Cruise Terminal contains three main areas: the Marittima basin, which can berth the biggest ships that visit Venice, and the smaller Santa Marta and San Basilio quays, just around the corner from the Marittima in the Fusina Canal.
Marittima is the largest of the ship docks at the Port of Venice's Venezia Terminal Passeggeri, with ( Read more... ) -
Cruise Port Notes - New York
Description New York City has two cruise ports, the Mathattan Cruise Terminal beside the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan Island, and 6 miles to the south Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on the eastern side of Hudson Bay at the Red Hook coastline of Brooklyn. Also nearby is Cape Liberty Cruise Terminal, on the mainland coastline of the Bay, at ( Read more... ) -
Cruise Port Notes - San Diego
Description The San Diego Cruise Terminal is positioned at 1140 North Harbor Drive at the B Street Pier, very close to San Diego's city center. The terminal is modern with a complete variety of facilities for passengers. The berths at San Diego cruise terminal are numbered in the following way. Quays on the north of B Street pier are one and two, ( Read more... ) -
Barcelona Cruise Port
Description
Cruise ships dock at Port Vell. The port has become a tourist attraction by itself with a large Maremàgnum shopping mall with a fun IMAX theater, and Europe's largest aquarium. Port Vell connects to Las Ramblas, the main Barcelona avenue packed with eateries and street entertainment that leads right into the heart of the city. Las ( Read more... ) -
Barbados Cruise Port
Description
The Port of Bridgetown, correct name the Deep Water Harbour, was built in the 1960s a mile to the north of Bridgetown.The Port manages all of Barbados's bulk ships, plus many cruiseships. In 2002 the main approach channel was dredged to allow bigger ships to use the facility. Since the dredging project the port has experienced a ( Read more... ) -
Port Canaveral Cruise Port
Description
Port Canaveral has six cruise terminals, though only 3 are in continual use for multi-day cruises. They are terminals 5, 8 and 10 which are located on the north western shore of the port. Terminal 2 hosts a gambling cruise ship. Cruise terminals 3 and 4 are not utilized often.
A Side (North) Terminals 5, 8 and 10
Cruise terminals 5, 8 ( Read more... )
