Colon, Panama; and Mahogany Bay, Honduras. Now the fourth-largest passenger-cruise port in the U.S. (and the biggest outside Florida), Galveston was a different story in the 1970s. Things around ...

the cruises are also tailored for the Latin rather than just U.S. market — in particular, South Americans who are looking for a nearer port from which to depart on a cruising voyage. "During this ...