Cruises

The State Department advisory does not prevent U.S. Americans from traveling to Costa Rica or any other Level 4 country. 

The latest travel notices published by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States advises citizens to avoid all travel to Costa Rica due to the coronavirus. 

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States issued an updated warning advising all people to avoid traveling on cruise ships during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Two cruise ships — the Oceania Marina and the Caribbean Princess — will dock in Limón.

Seven Seas Navigator, a 490-passenger, eight-deck ship, was arriving to the port city of Puntarenas — an unusual occurrence during the global travel slowdown provoked by the coronavirus.

Costa Rica will not receive a pair of cruise ships that planned stops in the Pacific city of Puntarenas as their operators adjust itineraries amid the coronavirus epidemic.

The improvements are reportedly set to be completed over the next four months.

A massive storm exploded in intensity just off the Southeast U.S. coast on Sunday afternoon, driving hurricane force winds and whipping waves into a frenzy. And in the middle of this monster storm was a cruise ship on its way to Florida – rocking, roiling and taking a major beating from the most powerful storm we've seen in the western Atlantic so far this winter.

If Carnival is allowed to dock in Cuba it would be the first time a cruise ship travels between the two countries since they broke off diplomatic relations in 1961.

Next month, the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association will hold its 2015 regional meeting in El Salvador – the only Central American nation without a Caribbean coast.