Question, San Diego to Vancouver Pacific Coast Cruise

[Paige Adams]

I was once told that I could not sail to San Juan and then sail back to the US on a Disney Cruise. I would have to fly back. It's why I am questioning, if anyone knows...Does that same rule apply to the cruise from San Diego to Vancouver? Could we sail to Vancouver and reboard the ship back to San Diego? I found nothing about that online. Thanks

 

[Tikibear]

Generally speaking, the San Diego to Vancouver cruise would be a repositioning cruise for Alaska.

 

[Erica1016]

I was once told that I could not sail to San Juan and then sail back to the US on a Disney Cruise. I would have to fly back. It's why I am questioning, if anyone knows...Does that same rule apply to the cruise from San Diego to Vancouver? Could we sail to Vancouver and reboard the ship back to San Diego? I found nothing about that online. Thanks

I think the problem you'd run into is that the cruises leaving from Vancouver would then be doing Alaska for the Summer.

 

[Mommb]

A problem comes up if you leave from one US port and return to a different US port without visiting a “distant foreign port.”

If you leave from a port, disembark, then take a cruise back to the same port, that wouldn’t be a problem. So, you can take a cruise from San Diego to Vancouver, then back from Vancouver to San Diego. But you may not, for example, leave from San Diego, sail to Vancouver, sail to Alaska, and then disembark in Seattle. (DCL doesn’t have cruises that start from Vancouver and end in Seattle, so this is just hypothetical.)

Puerto Rico is a partial exception, so you can cruise from, say, Port Canaveral to Puerto Rico. But you can’t leave from Port Canaveral, cruise to Puerto Rico, and then cruise on the same ship to disembark in Galveston. (Again, that’s a theoretical itinerary — I haven’t looked at actual routes.)

The Panama Canal cruises stopped in Colombia, which counted as “distant,” so they could go from Florida to California or vice versa.

 

[auntlynne]

I could not cruise Seattle to Vancouver B2B Vancouver to San Francisco on the same ship. It violates the need for a distant foreign port when transporting passengers between US ports.

If you could find a different ship for your return voyage, even on the same day, you could return.

In my case, I spent the night in Vancouver and caught a ship going Southbound the following day (same cruiseline).

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Could we sail to Vancouver and reboard the ship back to San Diego?

If you're willing to spend some time in Vancouver between the two. As noted, SD to Vancouver is a repositioning cruise for the Alaska season. The ship would not be immediately returning to SD.