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Cruises From Galveston – Valentine’s Day Cruises

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Planning on celebrating Valentines Day with a romantic cruise? This week’s cruise picks features 5 Valentines Day 2022 cruise from Galveston.

2022 Valentine’s Day Cruises from Galveston

February 14, 2022 – 4-Night Cruise to Cozumel aboard the Royal Caribbean Adventure of the Seas. If you don’t have a lot of time to get away, this short cruise from Galveston, with a Valentine’s Day departure, is a good option.

February 14, 2022 – 5-Night Cruise to Cozumel and Yucatan, Mexico aboard the Carnival Breeze. This cruise has two at sea days and a day each in Cozumel, Mexico and Yucatan, Mexico.

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The Schedule of Galveston, Texas Cruises in February

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Whether it’s as a Valentine’s Day celebration or just a mid-winter getaway, there are plenty of options for cruises departing from Galveston in February.

February Cruises on Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean offers 4, 5 and 7 day cruises from Texas in February. These western Caribbean cruises visit Mexico and Central America – the longer the cruise the further south you’ll go.

Four- and five-night cruises are on Adventure of the Seas. The 4-night voyages depart on Valentine’s Day and February 28th. They visit Cozumel, Mexico before heading back north.

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January Cruises from Galveston, Texas

Keith

January marks the start of the prime season for cruises from Texas. There are several destinations and cruise lengths to choose from.

Carnival Cruises from Texas in January

Carnival Cruise Lines offers 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 day cruise adventures in January. Their Carnival Breeze specializes in 4 and 5 day cruises to Cozumel, Yucatan and Costa Maya. The 4-day cruises depart on Mondays, while the 5-day trips leave on Mondays and Saturdays.

Carnival Vista makes 7-day trips that depart on Saturdays. Vista has two different Western Caribbean itineraries: one goes to Cozumel, Belize and Mahogany Bay while the other visits Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Grand Cayman and Cozumel.

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Cruises from Texas to New York?

Keith

Galveston is Texas’s cruise port. And most of the cruises from this port city on the Gulf of Mexico take lucky passengers to the western Caribbean, Mexico and Central America.

Yes, You Can Cruise From Galveston to New York

But when the prime Texas cruise season comes to an end (around the end of April), the cruise companies move their ships to other departure ports. For Royal Caribbean’s ship Adventure Of The Seas that “other departure port” is New York – more accurately, Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey, within view of the Statue of Liberty.

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New $100 Million Royal Caribbean Cruise Terminal Coming to Galveston

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has signed a long-term contract with the Port of Galveston for the construction of a new $100 million cruise terminal.

The new two-story terminal will be constructed at Pier 10 in the eastern portion of the Port of Galveston. Construction is expected to begin in April of 2020, with anticipated completion in fall of 2021.

RCL will build the terminal, then lease it from the Port of Galveston for an intial 20 year term with four 10-year extension options following that.

The new terminal will be approximately 170,000 square feet in size. The terminal will meet LEED sustainability standards, will employ state-of-the-art technology such as mobile check in and facial recognition, and will have the capacity to accommodate Royal Caribbean’s largest ships.

Following completion of the new terminal, Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas will sail from Galveston.

December 2019 – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and the Port of Galveston, the fourth most active cruise port in North America, have signed a long-term contract for a new $100 million cruise terminal slated to debut in fall 2021.