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The Crystal Symphony is embarking passengers in Antigua; it added St. Maarten as a second embarkation option.
Crystal Cruises added St. Maarten as a departure port for its Caribbean sailings on the Crystal Symphony starting in August.
The 15 departures had already been scheduled with departures from St. John s, Antigua; now, the ship will also embark passengers in Philipsburg, St. Maarten.
The series of cruises will start from Philipsburg Aug. 2 and then call in St. John s starting Aug. 5.
The ship s 10-day Luxury Caribbean Escapes sailings will also call in Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and the British Virgin Islands. The ship will overnight in St. John s, Philipsburg and Bridgetown, Barbados.
efforts are set to begin in early July with the
cruise line’s first-ever all-Bahamas voyages out of Nassau and Bimini in the Bahamas on the 980-passenger Crystal Serenity.
Crystal will begin deploying its 922-passenger Crystal Symphony on 10-night Caribbean sailings from Antigua a month later and continues to expand choices for travelers eager to return to easy and safe option for getting out there again.
Crystal is adding 15 new Caribbean sailings departing roundtrip from St. Maarten aboard Crystal Symphony running August through December of this year. The newly added voyages are part of Crystal Symphony’s 10-night Luxury Caribbean Escapes and offer guests the option of cruising roundtrip from either Philipsburg, St. Maarten, on 15 voyages beginning August 2, or the previously announced voyages departing roundtrip from St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, on 15 voyages beginning August 5. All of Crystal’s 10-night Luxury Caribbean Escapes, including a holiday cruise, will
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