{"id":261,"date":"2024-02-11T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:11:19","slug":"caribbean-cruising-vs-galapagos-cruising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/blog\/caribbean-cruising-vs-galapagos-cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Cruising Vs. 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There are activities for young and old, from children\u2019s programs to Bingo games and scrap booking workshops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/cruises\/\">Galapagos cruises<\/a> the waterslide and wave pool are replaced by daily snorkeling excursions in the ocean with sea lions.\u00a0 Daily activities are primarily off-boat, including visiting lagoons, scampering over lava rocks, and climbing into volcanic craters. Watching the Blue Footed Booby mating dance and seeing the Waved Albatross take flight off a cliff are entertainment on their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHORE EXCURSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/galapagos-sea-lions-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-279\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Galapagos sea lions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/galapagos-sea-lions-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The large cruise lines offer various shore excursions, depending on their ports of call.\u00a0 Stingray City in the Cayman Islands, snorkeling trips in Cozumel, scuba diving from St. Bart\u2019s\u2026the list goes on and on.\u00a0 Each port of call on your adventure offers a range of activities and highlights with an extra charge for each one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Galapagos cruises generally offer two land visits and a snorkeling excursion per day, constant close-up bird, whale, or dolphin watching and star gazing in the evening, all included in the cost of the cruise.\u00a0 Each excursion offers a completely different landscape and brings you up close and personal to a vast array of Galapagos animals.\u00a0 Galapagos boasts unique and endemic (not found anywhere else in the world) animal species and of course, is Darwin\u2019s Living Laboratory!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SERVICES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ocean-spray-yacht.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-293\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Ocean Spray Yacht\" src=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ocean-spray-yacht.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both mega-ships and Galapagos vessels offer luxury services including incredible cuisine, experienced and professional staff members, on-going housekeeping, and service with a smile; it&#8217;s like one of those burnaby condos that you see everywhere advertised and they look amazing.\u00a0 Service is more personalized, however, on Galapagos cruises. On a 16 passenger yacht, for example, the crew may know your name, you become friends with other passengers, and your evening 5-star meal is served under the stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don\u2019t take our word for it; check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/cruises\/catamaran\/cormorant-ii\">amenities of our cruises<\/a> complete with boat specs and information! Talk to one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosislands.com\/forms\/G.COM?utm_source=travel-guide&amp;utm_medium=blog-post&amp;utm_term=blog-post&amp;utm_content=blog-post&amp;utm_campaign=blog-post\">trip advisors<\/a> to start planning your unique vacation \u2013 the Galapagos Islands awaits you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galapagos Islands are such a special and unique place that it\u00b4s no wonder the cruising out here is special and unique as well!\u00a0 What are the key differences between \u201cMega\u201d Caribbean Cruising and Galapagos Cruising?\u00a0Let\u00b4s take a look: SIZE: Cruising in the Caribbean is generally associated with the mega ships:\u00a0 Some cruises boast accommodation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galapagos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caribbean Cruising Vs. 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