Caribbean Grand Tour – St. Thomas & Philipsburg
About this cruise
This is the kind of cruise where you actually have time to go back to a port highlight you missed the first time. 14 nights from Baltimore on October 31, 2027, visiting St. Thomas, Philipsburg, Basseterre, Oranjestad, Willemstad and Grand Turk Island. It starts gently with sea days, so by the time you reach the first port you'll have explored the ship and actually feel on holiday. The route threads through 6 countries along the Caribbean coast: U.S. Virgin Islands, Sint Maarten, St. Kitts & Nevis, Aruba, Curaçao and Turks & Caicos Islands. You get around 10 hours in each port, which is enough for an excursion, lunch, and some wandering around on your own. When you're not ashore, Carnival Pride has 8 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. Longer sailings have a different energy. People relax into it, stop rushing, and start actually talking to each other. An October sailing dodges the peak crowds while the weather is still cooperating. Well timed. You'll probably start planning the next one before this one's even over.