NCL unveils 2019/20 sailings

Norwegian Cruise Line has unveiled details of its 2019/20 sailings.

Cruises will go on sale on Wednesday for returning guests and on Thursday to the general public.

The new Norwegian Bliss, launching this summer, will sail from New York to the Bahamas for the winter 2019/20 season.

She will sail 18 different cruises including seven and eight-day Bahamas and Florida sailings and longer 12 and 14-day cruises to the Southern and Western Caribbean.

Norwegian Bliss will homeport in the heart of Manhattan from November 24 2019 and set sail each Sunday to the Bahamas and Florida, with calls in Orlando and the Beaches at Port Canaveral, Norwegian’s private island Great Stirrup Cay, and Nassau, Bahamas.

Norwegian Gem will kick off 2019 with an eight-day Bahamas and Florida cruise from New York on December 31, with an overnight stay and two days in Orlando and the Beaches, Great Stirrup Cay, and a call in Nassau.

Norwegian Dawn will sail from Tampa on a five-day Bahamas and Florida cruise departing January 16 2020 with calls in Key West, Nassau, and Great Stirrup Cay.

For the first time ever, Norwegian Getaway will sail a mix of seven, nine and 12-day cruises to the Western Caribbean from New Orleans beginning November 8 2019.

From December 8 through March 15 2019 Norwegian Epic will sail the Southern Caribbean on seven-day voyages from San Juan, with calls at Aruba, Curacao, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Barbados, Antigua, St. Maarten and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on 10 and 11-day cruises.

Following a year and half stay in New York, Norwegian Escape will return to the city of her christening, Miami, on November 23 2019 and sail seven-day Western Caribbean cruises through 18 April 2020.

Norwegian Breakaway will extend her stay in Florida by repositioning from Miami to Port Canaveral, arriving on November 23 2019 and will spend winter 2019/20 sailing seven-day Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries every Saturday.

Norwegian Dawn will round-out the line’s deployment in the Sunshine State with her return to Tampa, with cruises departing from the west coast of the peninsula from November 24 through March 22 2020.

The recently renovated Norwegian Dawn will sail primarily seven-day Western Caribbean cruises, including calls at Honduras, Cozumel and Costa Maya in Mexico and Harvest Caye in Belize.

Norwegian Gem will return to the Big Apple for her winter 2019 season from November 22 to March 16 2020 and will sail a variety of 10 and 11-day Southern Caribbean itineraries and one 14-day cruise from New York.

Throughout September 2019, Norwegian Escape will offer four roundtrip seven-day cruises from Manhattan to the Canadian coastline.

Norwegian Gem will cruise from New York to San Francisco on a 20-day journey departing on January 4 2020, and then back from the Bay City on a 21-day cruise to the Big Apple departing on January 24.

Norwegian Dawn will sail a one-of-a-kind 15-day cruise from New York to Tampa to the Panama Canal, departing November 9 2019 and also a 14-day roundtrip Panama Canal cruise from Tampa departing on December 1 2019, with stops including George Town, Grand Cayman, Ocho Rios in Jamaica, and Cartagena.