Grandeur of the Seas Begins Year-Long Latin America Season
The Vision-class vessel is Royal Caribbean’s oldest ship, with capacity for about 1,950 passengers and roughly 760 crew, and last sailed short cruises from Port Tampa Bay.
Royal Caribbean International has moved Grandeur of the Seas into Latin America for a nearly year-long program from Colon, Panama, and Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The 1996-built ship arrived in May and is operating Southern Caribbean cruises from the two homeports.
The deployment gives Royal Caribbean a year-round presence in the market after Serenade of the Seas operated the company’s 2025-26 winter program from the region. The itineraries include calls at Oranjestad, Aruba; Kralendijk, Bonaire; and Willemstad, Curacao.
Royal Caribbean is also offering onboard programming tailored to the local market during the Latin America season. The line did not include an executive comment with the announcement.
Grandeur of the Seas shifted to the region after completing a short-cruise schedule from Port Tampa Bay. Its repositioning voyage from the Gulf Coast to Colon operated as a seven-night itinerary calling at George Town in the Cayman Islands, Oranjestad and Willemstad.
The ship is the oldest in Royal Caribbean’s fleet. Grandeur of the Seas is a Vision-class vessel built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique in France and has capacity for about 1,950 passengers. The vessel is about 73,817 gross tons and 915 feet long, with roughly 760 crew.
Royal Caribbean’s published program keeps Grandeur of the Seas sailing from Panama and Colombia until a late-April 2026 repositioning cruise to San Juan. The open-jaw voyage will precede a Puerto Rico-based summer season visiting additional Southern Caribbean destinations, with the ship scheduled to return to Latin America in November 2027 for a winter season.
