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From Port Tampa Bay's cruise terminals along Channelside Drive in downtown Tampa, Hillsborough County.
Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Margaritaville at Sea, Celebrity and Oceania sail from there. The port counted 1.66 million cruise passengers in its 2025 fiscal year, a record, and expected 1.8 million in 2026. Tampa is a departure port for the western Caribbean and Mexico: Margaritaville at Sea's Islander, for one, sails from it on four- to seven-night trips to Cozumel, Progreso and Key West.
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Open the county guide →Six Florida ports send cruise ships out, and a seventh, Key West, is a port of call.
Read the answer →From the JAXPORT Cruise Terminal at 9810 August Drive in Jacksonville, Duval County.
From the Port of Palm Beach at Riviera Beach. Margaritaville at Sea's Paradise sails from it on two- to five-night trips, to Grand Bahama, Nassau and Key West among others, and SeaDream Yacht Club and American Cruise Lines use the port too.
Yes. Key West in Monroe County is a port of call, where ships stop for the day and nobody boards a cruise: they come from Miami, Port Everglades, Port Canaveral, Tampa, Jacksonville and the Caribbean.
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