San Diego B Street Cruise Ship Terminal

San Diego B Street Cruise Ship Terminal

The Port’s main cruise facility is located downtown. The main facility, at B Street Pier in downtown San Diego, along North Harbor Drive, has three cruise berths. The Port also redeveloped the historic Broadway Pier to create a second cruise-ship pier and terminal, which opened in December 2010.

The Port of San Diego welcomes many cruise ships throughout the year at San Diego’s cruise terminals. The B Street Cruise Ship Terminal is conveniently located in the very heart of thriving, vibrant downtown San Diego and a short distance from countless attractions. San Diego is on cruise ship itineraries that include other fabulous destinations including, but not limited to, the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, and even distant locales such as Tahiti. Cruises are designed to please people of all ages and vary in length.

Several cruise lines home port in San Diego, such as Holland America, Celebrity Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, and Royal Caribbean. Other cruise lines may also use San Diego as a port of call. Holland America uses San Diego as a home port during the winter season. Royal Caribbean used to regularly operate Mexico cruises from San Diego, but now only operates on the months of April and November operating cruises to Panama Canal. Disney Cruise Line has seasonal Mexican cruises in the spring and fall, as well as a Panama Canal cruise at the end of the visit. Carnival Cruise Lines used to operate from San Diego, but no longer does so after April 2012. Carnival Elation was the only cruise ship that operated from San Diego on a year-round basis from 2007 to 2010. Carnival Spirit seasonally operated from the port during fall and winter seasons. It continued like that until Carnival ceased their cruise operations from San Diego. On May 2013, Celebrity Cruises’ Solstice became longest cruise ship to dock in San Diego, during a Wine Country Coastal Cruise.

The Port of San Diego experienced a 44-percent growth in cruise calls between 2002 and 2006, growing from 122 to 219 calls. Passenger numbers more than doubled in that time, from 276,000 in 2002 to 619,000 in 2006. Cruise ship business peaked in 2008, when the Port hosted 252 ship calls and more than 800,000 passengers. By 2011, the number of ship calls had fallen to 103, a decline blamed on the slumping economy as well as fear of travel to Mexico due to well-publicized violence there.
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