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Ten home ports, built out fully rather than twenty built thinly. Each page says which of the three paths works at that specific port, what the terminals are, and where the pre-cruise hotels sit, because the geography is what decides whether a hotel drop is sensible or hopeless.
- Port Canaveral
Port Canaveral is now the busiest cruise port in the world. Here is what actually works for getting flowers into a cabin there, the cruise line deadlines that govern it, and why the Orlando hotel your recipient booked changes the plan.
- PortMiami
What actually works when you want flowers waiting in a cabin at PortMiami, and what does not. Cruise line ordering deadlines, the pre-cruise hotel districts that matter, and why a Miami florist cannot drive to the terminal.
- Port Everglades
Sending flowers to someone sailing from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. The cruise line ordering deadlines that apply, the beach hotel strip that makes a hotel drop work here, and what a florist genuinely cannot do.
- Port of Galveston
Getting flowers to someone boarding at Galveston. Cruise line ordering deadlines, why the Houston hotel they booked is fifty miles from the ship, and what a pier delivery actually involves.
- Port of Seattle
Sending flowers to an Alaska cruise leaving Seattle. Which terminal your line uses, the cruise line ordering deadlines, and why a Seattle sailing is the one most likely to catch people out on timing.
- New York and Cape Liberty
Three different terminals serve New York cruises and they are in three different places. Which line uses which, the ordering deadlines that apply, and how to avoid sending flowers to the wrong side of the harbour.
- Port Tampa Bay
Flowers for someone sailing from Tampa. Which terminal on Channelside Drive your line uses, the cruise line ordering deadlines, and why the Channel District makes a hotel drop unusually easy here.
- Los Angeles and Long Beach
Two separate cruise ports twenty minutes apart, and Carnival uses the other one. Which terminal your line sails from, the ordering deadlines, and how to get a hotel drop right in San Pedro or Long Beach.
- Port of Southampton
Sending flowers to someone sailing from Southampton. Five terminals across two dock gates, the Cunard and P&O ordering routes, and why Southampton is the port where the cruise line desk is almost always the right answer.
- Port of Barcelona
Flowers for a Mediterranean cruise leaving Barcelona. Which terminals are on the Adossat Quay, which cruise lines will and will not deliver flowers here, and why a hotel drop in the Gothic Quarter beats anything aimed at the port.
Not built yet
These are next, in roughly this order. They are listed rather than published because a port page with no researched operators behind it would be worse than an admission that we have not done the work.
- New Orleans. Large Carnival and Norwegian turnaround, and the densest walkable hotel district of any US home port.
- Baltimore. Steady Carnival and Royal Caribbean turnaround with an Inner Harbor hotel cluster.
- San Juan. Old San Juan hotels sit within walking distance of the piers, which makes the hotel drop unusually strong.
- Vancouver. Canada Place is inside the downtown core. Alaska season only.
- Civitavecchia. Rome is 50 miles inland, which makes it the European twin of the Galveston and Houston problem.
- Piraeus. Athens home port and one of the few European ports Norwegian names for flower delivery.