What is the BEST cruise to take in the winter months?

[dbrook34601]

For those who have cruised before or can answer this question, what is the best cruise to take and where in the winter time months? One that you would be willing to do again? Thank you in advance!

[KLcruiser]

For those who have cruised before or can answer this question, what is the best cruise to take and where in the winter time months? One that you would be willing to do again? Thank you in advance!

ANY!!! Especially those going to the warmer locations.

[tracyanns]

Southern Caribbean is what I prefer in the winter...the further south the better! Sail out of San Juan and add a few days before and/or after and you have a great get-a-way from the cold!

[paul929207]

We sailed around Cape Horn from Buenos Aires to Santiago and Round trip fom Fort Lauderdale to Manaus, Brazil in the winter. Both were great.

[cb at sea]

I'd have to agree...if you want warm weather, then starting from a warm weather port is the thing to do....even Florida gets "cold snaps"....

[dbrook34601]

THANKS EVERYONE! We live in Fla, and yes we can get some pretty darn cold snaps, last year being one of them. We do want to sail to a warm port so just was wanting to know where is great to go, not horrible weather or anything. I will look into some of those. We usaully have only sailed in the summer time (Only 3 sailings).

[Bookish Angel]

Winter in our hemisphere is their summer and I highly recommend the trip. One of my fave places.

 

I will definitely go again but on a smaller ship so as to go farther south on the continent.

[sherilyn70]

Southern Caribbean is beautiful and almost always 85º year round. Perfect weather to escape to in the winter. I've been there in both mid December and early February.

[cruising to paradise]

We also like cruising from San Juan because you know its going to be warm . Florida can be iffy and you might have 2 cool days. One going and 1 coming back. The Southern Caribbean is great!

[jocap]

Round the Red Sea, with a week in Sharm el Sheikh first. We're watching the prices already.....:)

Jo.

[janetz]

For those who have cruised before or can answer this question, what is the best cruise to take and where in the winter time months? One that you would be willing to do again? Thank you in advance!

 

 

The longest one you can afford! ;)

[paul929207]

How about a round the world cruise?

[trish1c]

The longest one you can afford! ;)

 

Great answer!

Given the choice I will take southern carribbean. I just like those ports better.

Since it's usually snowing (or worse) here when we cruise, I'll take anything with sunshine! :)

[eh2zed]

For those who have cruised before or can answer this question, what is the best cruise to take and where in the winter time months? One that you would be willing to do again? Thank you in advance!

Given your qualifier "One you would be willing to do again" I would agree with the South America suggestion. Now there are some cooler elements around the Horn etc.

[STARFISH*4]

LOVED our Panama Canal cruise taken in December!

[marco]

As you live in Fla, I'd go with a Caribbean cruise (no flying) and the temps both air and water should be quiet comfortable. We've done a winter cruise (west coast Mexico) and thought it cool, windy, rougher than the Caribbean, the water cooler and beaches not as nice, either and pretty much the same for cruising the Hawaiian Islands in the winter.

[morecruise4me]

We've done both Western Caribbean and Southern Caribbean cruises in the winter months. I prefer the Southern simply because I like the islands down there better. And though we have always had very nice weather in Mexico in winter, I would sail Southern Caribbean out of San Juan over and over again! :D

[hancogran]

Definitely Southern!! We're heading out on our fourth Southern cruise in January. For a change, last year we sailed Voyager of the Seas from Galveston in January and just found it too cool on our first and last sea days. Our ports of call were warm but we felt like we "lost" a few days because of the cool weather. ;)

[dcward89]

I'll jump on the bandwagon for Southern Caribbean leaving out of San Juan. We have done Mexico, Eastern Caribbean and Southern Caribbean all in January or February. All were great but Southern out of San Juan was the best and so far the only one we are repeating...booked Southern out of San Juan for Jan/Feb 2012 while on a Southern out of San Juan in Jan 2011!!

[sail7seas]

This is such a subjective question, it is really impossible to answer.

 

We cruise the Caribbean very often and through the years have probably repeated about 6 or 7 itineraries over and over again. We have done the exact one in three or four examples at least 6 times each.

 

We are in the process of booking a 14 day itinerary we did within the last 18 months and want to do again.

 

There are only so many islands to which the ships sail so if one sails often enough, they have to be repeating.

 

It's a shorter list of islands we either do not return to or don't leave the ship if they call there.

 

We do not leave the ship in Cartegena, Caracas, Ocho Rios, Montego Bay, aren't crazy about Guadeloupe. We had a nice time years ago in St. Croix but our recent visit was very disappointing. We probably would not return until they figure out how to make cruise guests welcome and handle the flow more effectively. (Cruise ships just started calling there again after a number of years of avoiding the island.)

Most other islands we like one thing or another or totally love the island. :)