Royal Caribbean continuing Cuba sailings from Tampa in 2018

Royal Caribbean International’s Empress of the Seas will
reprise its summer season in Tampa in 2018, with 58 itineraries featuring Cuba
stops from January 2018 to March 2019.

More than half the four- and five-day Cuba cruises will dock
overnight in Havana, Royal Caribbean said.

The Tampa sailings will call in Key West, Costa Maya and
Cozumel, as well as Havana in most cases.

The Empress, which is in Tampa through Nov. 4, will
reposition to Miami for the winter 2017-2018 season, adding calls to Royal
Caribbean’s private island destination CocoCay and Nassau.

For the 2018-19 winter season, the Empress will move to Fort
Lauderdale, continuing to sail short Caribbean itineraries.