Ocean Discovery – Port Canaveral, Gibraltar & Alicante

About this cruise

If you've got 12 nights to work with, this sailing from Port Canaveral on March 31, 2028 through Gibraltar, Alicante and Civitavecchia (Rome) is genuinely one of the better ways to spend them. You get off in Civitavecchia (Rome), which is a good excuse to tack on a few days on land. You ease into this one, with a few sea days up front to find your rhythm before the 3 port calls start. The route threads through 3 countries along the Western Mediterranean coast: United Kingdom, Spain and Italy. Don't rush through Civitavecchia (Rome), which is known as The Eternal City is just an hour away. With about 8 hours at each port, you'll want a plan, or at least a shortlist. There are 14 restaurants on Norwegian Epic, so you'd need to double up a few evenings to try them all in 12 nights. There are enough performances, events, and social mixers on a cruise this length that you couldn't do them all if you tried. And that's a good problem. Port Canaveral itself is worth spending some time in. Don't just treat it as a departure point. Timing-wise, spring usually means comfortable temperatures and lower prices than peak season. All told, 3 ports across 12 nights covers a lot.