Why not discover the world's most favored cruise -- the Caribbean?

Comprising between 50 to 750 islands (dependent on how you count), cruises to the Caribbean delivers a splendid vacation in terms of cruising.

The destinations have a sunny local climate with some of the world's best beaches, exquisite sea life together with a fantastic coral reef, and extremely clear seas. Shopping is also a great feature having duty-free bargains.

Basic Caribbean Cruise Routes Available:

1. Eastern Caribbean Cruises -- Key West, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Far more relating to this choice shortly.

2. Western Caribbean Cruises - the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, the island of Cozumel, and several islands off the shorelines of Honduras and Belize. A cruise is going to take you as far east as Jamaica plus the Cayman Islands. Grand Cayman particularly provides a lot of pleasures, which include bright sandy shorelines and wonderful water sporting activities.

3. Southern Caribbean Cruises - San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Grenadines, the Lesser Antilles, and the Netherlands Antilles west to Aruba, aforementioned offering 365 beautiful beaches.

4. Exotic/Long-duration Caribbean Cruises -- almost any of the earlier mentioned destinations, which sometimes ends up in a completely different location than where the particular cruise started out.

Eastern Caribbean Cruises

Probably the most sought after trips contains the Bahamas plus the eastern islands which define the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

An Eastern Caribbean cruise is excellent for beginning cruisers as well as seasoned tourists looking for a slow and enjoyable pace inside comfortable surroundings. Such cruises are outstanding for young families due to the fact they will travel to just a small number of ports, therefore the majority of the cruise time period will be spent aboard your ship, frequently with two consecutive days at sea.

You can find lots to enjoy on the islands of the Eastern Caribbean. You can visit the renowned beaches and try scuba diving, wind-surfing, or even playing golf. Shop to get souvenirs and high end products brought in from all over the world such as jewelry, fragrances, crystal, porcelain, consumer electronics and much more at tax-free rates with the enormous variety of outlets. And if you are a gambler you will really like it due to the fact the destinations possess the main casinos inside the Caribbean.

During an Eastern Caribbean cruise you will probably go to these destinations:

Nassau (the Bahamas) - Lots of casino action.

San Juan, Puerto Rico - A great deal of beaches as well as shopping.

St Croix (Virgin Islands) - Take a night kayak trip or even check out the initial landing place of Christopher Columbus on the way to the New World.

St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) - Offers superb scuba diving possibilities to be able to observe an abundance of marine life in the shallow waters.

Along with a few of the less popular paradises:

- St. John (Virgin Islands)

- St. Maarten

- Tortola, (British Virgin Islands)

- Virgin Gorda, (British Virgin Islands)

No matter where you go on your Caribbean vacation, you will bring back home a number of wonderful stories as well as memories.