Damselfish
Contributor
A better question might be where to avoid than where to go. Really, many islands that get cruise ships are big enough that unless you go downtown or whereever the cruiseship folks go when they're there, you won't notice. Of course you wouldn't want to dive with an operator that caters a lot to cruiseship traffic, especially if they don't have separate boats and the capacity to handle it. But some of the popular cruiseship islands aren't the ones noted for their diving anyway. And some of the smaller islands with good diving, if they get cruiseships they're few, and often the smaller ones.
Belize does have many cruiseships, but you will only notice if you're in Belize City, where you don't want to stay on your vacation anyway - there's a whole country aside from Belize City.
Curacao gets a fair number, but again you probably won't notice unless you go downtown when they're there, and sometimes not even then. It's a big island with no cruiseship impact at all out where the diving is best, not even much sign of civilization on much of it.
St. Vincent, Bequia - sleepy places. They do get the Windjammers, maybe once a week, which are not so big and nice to look at anyway. St Vincent did build a cruiseship dock years ago which promptly got whacked by a hurricane, not sure what's up with that now. Even less going on further south in the Grenadines.
Even Grand Cayman, it does have many cruise ships but if you don't go downtown or the few places the cruise ship people will go at those times, then you won't know the difference. Better yet, if you stay on the East End or northwest area you won't know cruiseships exist, it's like being on another island.
Belize does have many cruiseships, but you will only notice if you're in Belize City, where you don't want to stay on your vacation anyway - there's a whole country aside from Belize City.
Curacao gets a fair number, but again you probably won't notice unless you go downtown when they're there, and sometimes not even then. It's a big island with no cruiseship impact at all out where the diving is best, not even much sign of civilization on much of it.
St. Vincent, Bequia - sleepy places. They do get the Windjammers, maybe once a week, which are not so big and nice to look at anyway. St Vincent did build a cruiseship dock years ago which promptly got whacked by a hurricane, not sure what's up with that now. Even less going on further south in the Grenadines.
Even Grand Cayman, it does have many cruise ships but if you don't go downtown or the few places the cruise ship people will go at those times, then you won't know the difference. Better yet, if you stay on the East End or northwest area you won't know cruiseships exist, it's like being on another island.
