Merida, Yucatan — Forty-nine British citizens were allowed to disembark from a cruise ship and head to the Merida airport to fly home on a chartered plane, the federal government said today. The Mexican Navy removed an elderly passenger in critical condition from the Marella Explorer 2 for emergency treatment ashore. The ship was anchored off…
An elderly British cruise ship passenger with flu symptoms was transferred from an offshore cruise ship to a Yucatan hospital on Monday. The Marella Explorer 2 approached Progreso’s shore without docking, appeasing authorities who did not want the stranded ship risking the local population. Four crew members reportedly tested positive for coronavirus when it was…
A cruise ship with four ailing crew members – stricken by the coronavirus — is off the Yucatan coast with plans to dock in Progreso between 5 and 6 p.m. today, according to news reports. The Cruise Mapper website indicated that the 1,900-passenger Marella Explorer 2 was close to the Progreso cruise ship dock shortly…
Carnival Cruises on Thursday turned away several passengers who were headed to Progreso. Angry passengers told reporters that “underlying health conditions” including diabetes were why they were banned from the Carnival Fantasy. The Cozumel leg of the trip was also canceled as a health precaution. While screening passengers, Carnival says they will continue to operate…
The tourist industry has high hopes for the first month of 2020. According to Progreso’s Integral Port Administration, 24 cruise ships will arrive in January alone. The port will welcome regular visits from Carnival cruise lines, which are Progreso’s most frequent visitors. A ship from another cruise line has already arrived. On Wednesday, Ponant’s Le…
The relative chill that has affected Yucatan since Wednesday has affected tourist-centered businesseses on the coast. The storm surge has also piled sargassum — the stinky algae that has plagued beaches — onto Progreso’s shores once again. Cold Front 23, as it is called by local weather authorities, coincided with the arrival of the cruise…
By 2021, Yucatan will welcome 50 new cruise ships from around the world, including the Disney kingdom. The port of Progreso has apparently interested several international cruise lines at the 26th Annual Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association Conference & Trade Show in Puerto Rico. (Yucatan previously hosted this convention.) Yucatan Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal and Progreso Mayor…
Carnival is planning on sending two more cruise ships — and a lot more tourists — to Progreso.
Progreso, Yucatan — Royal Caribbean’s “Enchantment of the Seas” arrived at the port city for the first time, getting a big welcome from the governor and other tourism officials. The cruise ship carried 3,000 tourists, part of a five-day itinerary that began in Galveston, and heads next to Cozumel. This inaugural arrival of the Enchantment…
A Carnival cruise ship came to the rescue of a sailor whose boat was sinking off the coast of Cozumel.
For the third consecutive year, Puerto Progreso remains Mexico’s fourth most-visited cruise-ship port. Combined with the top cruise destinations — Cozumel, Mahahual and Ensenada — the ports welcome 6.4 million maritime passengers a year, according to DataTur. The cruise industry remains one of the most thriving sectors in tourism. Nearly three in 10 international tourists…
Progreso, Yucatan — Improvements to the port city’s tourist zone are in the works. The artisan fair on Calle 80 will be revived and a forlorn side street next to it will be converted into a tourist passage, said Manuel Rosado Heredia, municipal director of Tourism. The artisan fair had been displaced by the previous…
Just days ahead of its first trip, Victory Cruise Lines has canceled an itinerary of small luxury ships that would have traveled to Progreso and other ports of call in Yucatan.
The number of cruise ship arrivals at the port of Progreso will increase in October, with 11 pleasure boats expected this month.
A crew member from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico was rescued by another cruise ship nearly a day after he fell overboard.
The port begins April with the the arrival of over 11,600 passengers and 3,288 crew, including a cruise ship that’s new to Yucatán.
Small, upscale cruise ships will depart Miami starting in January 2019 under the Victory Cruise Lines banner, said Saúl Ancona Salazar, state secretary of tourism development.
Five years after making international headlines for all the wrong reasons, the Carnival Triumph docks today at Progreso, definitely not celebrating its anniversary.
While passengers toured the region, group of 10 environmentally minded crew members from the cruise ship Vision of the Seas undertook the task of cleaning part of Progreso’s beach.
A total of 19 cruise ships will arrive in Progreso in February. Six of them arrive in the space of a week.
More cruise ship income is Yucatán’s top tourism priority in 2018, a state official has declared.
Carnival Cruise Line is sending more passengers from the U.S. to Progreso beginning next year.
A group of Yucatecan entrepreneurs is looking to build a luxury destination here for cruise ship passengers looking for a new excursion.
When the Carnival Triumph arrived last week, merchants at the beach had a banner day, thanks to the heat.
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