Royal Caribbean Offers Holiday Cruises from Nine Homeports

Royal Caribbean International is offering holiday cruises departing from nine domestic homeports, including Bayonne, N.J.; Baltimore, Md.; Fort Lauderdale; Miami; Port Canaveral; Tampa, Fla.; Galveston, Texas; Los Angeles; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Royal Caribbean will deck its ships with seasonal decorations to embrace the holiday spirit throughout December.

Royal Caribbean offers Hanukkah-themed festivities lasting all eight days of the holiday, including a rabbi aboard every ship to conduct a nightly menorah-lighting ceremony and services. For those celebrating Christmas, a Catholic priest also will be aboard to lead the holiday’s observances including a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

Other Christmas festivities include classic movie screenings, caroling, cookie decorating, Christmas-themed Adventure Ocean programming and ice skating aboard select ships. Families may still book staterooms aboard the new Allure of the Seas for the seven-night roundtrip Western Caribbean holiday itinerary departing Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 18. In November, Allure of the Seas will join sister ship Oasis of the Seas as one of the two world’s largest and most innovative cruise ships.

On New Year’s Eve, the cruise director and captain’s countdown and themed parties will be held in every lounge. Young cruisers will enjoy the extended late-night party zone.