Mexico has definitely returned as a hot cruise destination. The Disney Cruise Line has announced a return to the West Coast for Baja cruises from San Diego in fall 2015 and Carnival Cruise Lines resumes its seven-day itineraries to Mazatlan starting in October.
Disney pulled out of Los Angeles at the end of 2012 and sent the Disney Wonder to Miami for the first time. Now the ship returns not to L.A. but to San Diego for six cruises to Baja during 2015.
Five-night cruises will stop at Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas and depart Oct. 4, 11 and 18, 2015. The line also will offer a three-night cruise that leaves Oct. 1, 2015, and two-night weekend getaways Oct. 9 and 16, 2015.
Prices start at $404 per person for two-night cruises, $435 per person for three-night cruises and $625 per person for five-night cruises, based on double occupancy.
The news coincides with Carnival Cruise Line's announcement that The Carnival Miracle will resume weeklong itineraries with stops at Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and a full day at Mazatlan.
Other seven-day itineraries on Carnival feature a stop in Cabo and two days in Puerto Vallarta for diving or visiting the beach. Prices start at $519 to $549 per person based on double occupancy.
Cabo remains the safest destination in Mexico for cruise ships and the near daily visitors remain a huge factor in the local Los Cabos economy with the last estimates showing that each cruise ship passenger being worth an average of $38 to the local economy.
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