The Bahamas, the Out Islands & Hispaniola, 17 December 2030

Cruise overview

Depart West Palm Beach for Grand Bahama’s Taino Beach, then continue to Nassau’s pastel waterfront before the ship anchors for a full day at her own fold-out marina, awash in flat turquoise water for swimming, paddleboards, and lunch on deck. In the Exumas, Staniel Cay delivers the sunlit Thunderball Grotto and the swimming pigs of Big Major Spot, while Long Island’s Gordon’s Beach unrolls three empty miles of sand near the world’s deepest blue hole. San Salvador, Columbus’s first landfall in the New World, offers wall diving and a quiet out-island calm before Christmas Eve settles over Salt Cay, a UNESCO-listed hamlet of sixty souls, its Georgian salt pans and wandering donkeys unchanged in two centuries. Christmas Day arrives beneath Monte Cristi’s soaring El Morro mesa, its Victorian gingerbread town giving way to the bare reef sandbar of Cayo Arena. In Samaná, humpback whales return each winter to calve within sight of Cayo Levantado. Your voyage closes in the UNESCO-listed streets of San Juan, where blue cobblestones and centuries-old forts guard a harbor made for lingering.