Bermuda Becomes Stand-Alone Destination for Cruises

Bermuda has been one of the world’s most popular cruise destinations since modern cruising began in the 1960s. And for many good reasons, including perfect weather, world-class golf courses, tennis, shopping, colonial history, picturesque pastel-colored towns and villages, pink sand beaches and a proximity to North America that welcomes cruises of five-days or more from as many as seven East Coast homeports.

This year, between April and November, no less than eight member lines of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) will send at least 16 ships to one or more of Bermuda’s three ports: Hamilton, St. George’s and King’s Wharf.

Offering an ideal combination of time at sea and plenty of time ashore exploring the destination’s attractions, many of them are five- to seven-day Bermuda-only itineraries from such homeports as Baltimore, Boston, New York, Cape Liberty, Philadelphia, Norfolk and Fort Lauderdale.

Other cruises feature Bermuda on transatlantic voyages, Caribbean repositioning trips or multi-island Caribbean itineraries. On most of these itineraries, cruisers can take advantage of another feature that gives Bermuda a “stand-alone and stand-out” reputation and its array of shore excursions.