Back to Back Question

[Smuggs]

For 2019 can you do the NYC to San Juan and the San Juan to Miami or is that an illegal one?

 

[clten]

Booking these 2 cruises back to back violates the PVSA so cannot be done. (Essentially you are going from NYC to Miami on a foreign flagged ship. The fact it stops and changes passengers in San Juan does not change anything with regard to that law.)

 

[PrincessShmoo]

For 2019 can you do the NYC to San Juan and the San Juan to Miami or is that an illegal one?

As noted, this would be a violation of the Passenger Vessel Services Act.

A foreign flagged ship cannot transport passengers from one US port to a different US port without a stop in a distant foreign port. A distant foreign port is any port that's NOT in North America, Central America, the Bermuda Islands, or the West Indies (including the Bahama Islands, but not including the Leeward Islands of the Netherlands Antilles, i.e., Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao).

It matters not that it's two different cruises that you're proposing to take, it matters (to the law) where you get on and where you get off the same ship. In your case, you're embarking in NY and debarking in Miami.

 

[gotomu212]

As noted, this would be a violation of the Passenger Vessel Services Act.

A foreign flagged ship cannot transport passengers from one US port to a different US port without a stop in a distant foreign port. A distant foreign port is any port that's NOT in North America, Central America, the Bermuda Islands, or the West Indies (including the Bahama Islands, but not including the Leeward Islands of the Netherlands Antilles, i.e., Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao).

It matters not that it's two different cruises that you're proposing to take, it matters (to the law) where you get on and where you get off the same ship. In your case, you're embarking in NY and debarking in Miami.

Just a fun fact the reason Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (the ABCs) are considered distant foreign ports is because they are on the South American tectonic plate and are considered part of S America and not N America (all other Caribbean and Central American countries are part of N America).