There are 21 cruise ships starting voyages today, September 16, 2013, including:

• We’re near the end of the Alaska cruising season so it’s time for some ships to move to new home ports for the winter:  Norwegian Sun leaves Vancouver today on a 23-day “repositioning cruise” to Miami, where it’ll spend the next six months making 10-night and 11-night Southern Caribbean cruises;
• Perhaps the most interesting cruise departing today is ms Prinsendam’s 28-night cruise from Barcelona to Piraeus, with stops at ancient spots in the eastern Mediterranean like Igoumenitsa, Heraklion, Rhodes and Istanbul;
• It’s Monday, so that means there are a bunch of 4- and 5-night cruises to the Bahamas departing from Charleston, Jacksonville, Port Canaveral and Miami.

Looking ahead:  If you’d like to schedule a little break in the middle of the Holiday Season, there are 18 cruises scheduled to depart on Monday, December 16, 2013 – most of them getting you back home just in time for Christmas.