Ocean Discovery – Fort Lauderdale, Falmouth & Oranjestad

About this cruise

Somewhere around day five the ship stops being transport and starts being home. This 14-night sailing from Fort Lauderdale on November 14, 2027 visits Falmouth Jamaica, Oranjestad and Willemstad, with additional stops along the Caribbean. Disembarkation is in San Juan. There's a stretch of back-to-back port days, so those days are busy, but the sea days around them give you time to recharge. The route threads through 9 countries along the Caribbean coast: Jamaica, Aruba, Curaçao, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sint Maarten, Dominica, St. Lucia and Barbados. Most ports give you about 11 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, Emerald Princess has 13 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. By night three you start recognising faces; by night ten you're swapping numbers. That's the magic of a longer sailing. Being shoulder season helps: golden light, comfortable weather, and shorter queues at the popular spots. You start in Fort Lauderdale and come back with stories from Jamaica, Aruba, Curaçao, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sint Maarten, Dominica, St. Lucia and Barbados.