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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Sun May 1, 2016, 11:21 PM May 2016

1st cruise from a US port in decades leaves Miami for Cuba

Source: Associated Press

1st cruise from a US port in decades leaves Miami for Cuba
May 1, 9:01 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) -- Passengers set sail Sunday from Miami on an historic cruise to Cuba, the first in decades to depart from a U.S. seaport for the communist island nation.

Carnival Corp.'s 704-passenger Adonia left port at 4:24 p.m., bound for Havana. Carnival's Cuba cruises, operating under its Fathom brand, will also visit the ports of Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba on the seven-day outing. Several Cuba-born passengers, among hundreds of others, were aboard, it said.

The cruise comes after Cuba loosened its policy banning Cuban-born people from arriving to the country by sea, a rule that threatened to stop the cruises from happening.

. . .

The Cuban government says the shift in policy removes prohibitions enacted when Cuban exiles were launching attacks by sea after the first Cuban revolution.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CUBA_CRUISES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-01-21-01-57

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1st cruise from a US port in decades leaves Miami for Cuba (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2016 OP
Every step forward is a great thing Duckhunter935 May 2016 #1
To Hell with cruise ships Brother Buzz May 2016 #2

Brother Buzz

(36,217 posts)
2. To Hell with cruise ships
Mon May 2, 2016, 01:07 AM
May 2016

High on my bucket list is to do an midnight crossing on a full moon in a vintage rum runner and enter Havana harbor at sunrise. Will it will be doable in my lifetime?

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