United Caribbean Lines - Cruise Ferry to Cuba and the Caribbean

09/04/2020

4-9-2020
UPDATE

Thx for signing up on our web site.

If you have not done so, please do so that when we have a start date and further info, we can be sure to contact you in a timely manner

By doing this you will automatically get the updates as soon as they are released and before the general public.

The current virus situation has not helped at all in completing the plans necessary to start the service. Most importantly I am sure you all are following safe and secure protocols to protect yourselves.

The start date is not confirmed yet.
We expect it will be sometime in Spring 2021. There is the possibility we may not be able to take delivery of the vessel until the end of the summer 2021.

we have had a lot of difficulty securing the right vessel for the trip we intend to implement.

the fares for the trip start at $295 per person double occupancy round trip and include a cabin for the trip with private bath and all your food and non-alcoholic beverages.

The one-way trips from Tampa Bay to with Cancun or Progreso / Merida will be 30 hours.

If you take a car it will cost around $150.

We are planning to have some pet friendly cabins so passengers can have their smaller pets stay with them. Larger pets will be in our 24-hr. supervised kennel area. We will have walking areas outside on the ship for dogs.

If you are bringing family the cabins mostly all hold 4 passengers and after the first two passengers, the 3rd and 4th in any cabin will only pay $195 each round trip.

Hope this helps.

I expect to have a start date by March/April 2020 for the start of service in 2021. The first people who will know about the starting dates and when bookings become available will be people like yourselves who have contacted us and put your email address on our list via the website.

Our hope is to have beginning of service by winter / early spring 2021.

Thanks for your patience.

Bruce Nierenberg
United Caribbean Lines
[email protected]
www.unitedcaribbeanlines.com
USA
Mobile: 321-427-0332
Skype: Bruce. nierenberg


I apologize for not updating the info on the website regularly. Hopefully things will get sorted out after the virus situation is resolved.

25/01/2020

January 25, 2020

Thx for signing up on our web site.

If you have not done so, please do so that when we have a start date and further info, we can be sure to contact you in a timely manner

By doing this you will automatically get the updates as soon as they are released and before the general public.

The start date is not confirmed as of yet.
We expect it will be sometime in winter 2021.

we have had a lot of difficulty securing the right vessel for the trip we intend to implement.

the fares for the trip start at $295 per person double occupancy round trip and include a cabin for the trip with private bath and all your food and non-alcoholic beverages.

The one-way trips from Tampa Bay to with Cancun or Progreso / Merida will be 35 hours.

If you take a car to will cost around $150.

We are planning to have some pet friendly cabins so passengers can have their smaller pets stay with them. Larger pets will be in our 24-hr. supervised kennel area. We will have walking areas outside on the ship for dogs.

If you are bringing family the cabins mostly all hold 4 passengers and after the first two passengers, the 3rd and 4th in any cabin will only pay $195 each round trip.

Hope this helps.

I expect to have a start date by March/April 2020 for the start of service in 2021. The first people who will know about the starting dates and when bookings become available will be people like yourselves who have contacted us and put your email address on our list via the website.

Our hope is to have beginning of service by winter 2021.

Thanks for your patience.

Bruce Nierenberg
United Caribbean Lines
[email protected]
www.unitedcaribbeanlines.com
USA
Skype: bruce. nierenberg

07/03/2019

Go to the United Caribbean Lines website for the latest update which was added a week ago. It will bring you up to date on the current plans for our ferry service to Yucatan Mexico. Leave your contact info on the site and we will update you automatically for all future info. If you have given us this info more than a year ago and changed your email contact info please update us so we can stay in touch.

Go to:
www.unitedcaribbeanlines.com

The ferry to Mexico is coming in 2020. The ferry service to Cuba is a problem totally related to the acrimonious relationship between the US and Cuba. As long as that remains it will be difficult to establish the much needed ferry service between Florida and Cuba. But when they are ready we will be and for now we have a great opportunity to begin the service to mexico. Thanks for your continued patience.

04/03/2019

Check out the latest update for the ferry service to the Yucatan from Florida. New info published last week.

Go to

Www.unitedcaribbeanlines.com

No service to cuba is planned in the coming months due to the political situation between the US government and Cuba. However, plans are being made to get the cruise ferry service to the Yucatan started. Leave your email contact at the website and u will be o kept up to date.
Thx for tour continued support and patience.

Hello friends! We are so very happy and proud to announce that our world-class cruise ferry service from Tampa to the Yucatan is in the latter stages of planning and organization and will be ready to sail from the Port of Tampa to Cancun and Progreso beginning Winter 2020. We’re offering a fantast...

10/02/2019

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06/11/2017

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03/11/2017

Victory Cruise Lines joins the flotilla of US cruise companies sending ships to Cuba.

25/10/2017

This message is an update for all of you that have been patiently waiting for the start of the ferry service between Florida and Cuba and Florida and The Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Lets talk Cuba first.

Cuba Ferry Service - The US government was ready to allow ferry service form Florida to Cuba back in may 2015. I had received approval from the govt. for that service and was prepared to start and spent time with Cuban officials and legal entities to put it together in Havana where the decisions needed to be confirmed. In late summer 2015 it became apparent that the Cuban officials felt it was premature to begin the ferry service while the US embargo remained in force limiting severely the traffic between the two countries in both people and cargo. In order to receive ferry vessels form the uS facilities would need to be constructed in Cuba. Facilties exist that could be used in Florida ports. With severely restrictive cionsidtion son the US Embargo still in place the Cuban authorities suggested we wait and revisit the ferry service from Florida to Cuba when the political situation settled between the US and Cuba and the embargo and its impact was either eliminated or severely reduced.

As you know the embargo still remains and in reality with the new administration and its restrictive approach to travel to Cuba its a bit worse than under the Obama administration.

In the end I would expect there will not be ferry service between the US and Cuba until the two countries make peace on all fronts and the US lifts the economic embargo. Oh, in case you forgot, thats the embargo thats been around for about 60 years and while its made life difficult for the Cuban government its really much more damaging to the average Cuban citizen and is long over due in being removed. But thats the politicians job.

Ferry Service between Florida and the Yucatan - This is more promising. I have been working on this since 2010. Im sure to many if you, especially those who to mexico for the season every winter or live there full time in retirement, its been very frustrating not having a reliable way of getting back and forth except of hair travel.In the past I have not been able to coordinate the availability of capital, the availability of ships and the timing of all requirements to begin the service between Florida and Mexico. I cannot give you a start date but I am encouraged by recent development and I have associates in Mexico and the US that are helping put it all together. I just got back from Mexico where I was working on some new cruise itineraries to mexico for my ships of "Victory Cruise Lines" and while there we met with the officials who will help us make the ferry service happen as well. My group and my associates in Mexico and the officials we have been working with have targeted October 2018 for the beginning of the service. We expect to announce the specifics before the end of 2017. The ferry service is intended to operate from Tampa Bay to both Progreso/Merida and Tampa Bay to Cancun/Riviera maya via the port of Calica which is just south of Playa Del Carmen.
So don't give up the faith. We will make this happen. We will be taking you and your families, your cars, your pets, and for those who live part or all the year in the Yucatan, your materials necessary to supply your homes in Mexico.

Wishing the next few days I will be updating the website for United Caribbean Lines. Please continue to monitor the site and make sure you sign up with your email address to get the latest info.
Again, I apologize for the extensive delays in getting this done.
For those of you that have taken the time to checkin with us and sign up for the info at our website, when we begin service we will provide your with special offers to save money if and when you decide to join us for a trip.

Best regards and travel safely
Bruce Nierenberg
for United Caribbean Lines

21/11/2015

What about the Ferry from Tampa to Cancun and the Yucatan??
For all my friends who have been so patient in waiting for the return of ferry service from Florida to the Yucatan......
I have been working on this for quite some time and on several occasions thought we were ready to start. We have not given up and while its been very disappointing to not be started already, there are signs that we still can get this going by the Spring 2017. The peak season for all the snowbirds who go to Mexico for the winter is the fall for southbound trips and the spring northbound. Hopefully we will be able to get started for the peak fall season in 2017. keep close to the website for the latest updates. We will post them on Facebook as well.

21/11/2015

I know everyone is waiting patiently for the start of ferry service from Florida to Cuba. Upon receiving approval from the US government last May we had hoped to be able to start the service before the end of 2015. There are so many logistical issues in providing this service in a safe and secure manner on both the US side and the Cuban side that it is simply taking a lot longer to put everything in place than anyone originally had expected. This holds true for any company that has expressed interest, publicically or otherwise, in establishing ferry service to Cuba from the US. The main problem is that this service has not existed for over 50 years and the infrastructure required to handle the traffic is not in place and will need to be to get started. The US and Cuban governments are working towards this end and will be successful but it will take a bit of time. All of us at UCL will continue to work closely with the Cuban and American authorities to implement this service as soon as practical. I get asked all the time "when will the ferry begin?". My hope is we will find a way to get this started before the end of 2016. However if you are planning travel to Cuba in the early part of 2016 I would not count on any ferry service from any company being in place from Florida during that time frame. If you stay on Facebook often we will keep you updated. If u also wish you can log in to our website and we will post the latest information as the schedules are confirmed and as a listed interested party you will be the first to know. The website is WWW.UNITEDCARIBBEANLINES.COM

29/09/2015

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