6 nights, San Juan to Miami

Six nights, six stops, one-way from San Juan to Miami. That math tells you the shape: this is a port-dense run with no sea days, a new island every morning. It starts strong, with Explora I tied up at the Old San Juan piers themselves, so the walled colonial grid, the cathedral, and the climb to El Morro are a few steps off the gangway. From there the arc threads the smaller Caribbean: Antigua, where the town is a quick browse and the day really belongs to a beach like Fort James or to Nelson's Dockyard a short drive out; Anguilla, a tender straight onto Sandy Ground Beach with the famous longer sand a taxi away; and Virgin Gorda, where the reason to come ashore is The Baths, a one-way scramble through house-size granite boulders to Devil's Bay. Grand Turk gives you beach off the bow and one of the rare ports with a wall good enough to snorkel.

This run rewards people who like motion and beaches, who would rather wake somewhere new than linger. If you want slow days and one place to sink into, this is the wrong itinerary; the pace is real. Miami is a working U.S. gateway, not a finale, so treat the last day as logistics with a good museum loop, not a destination.

Explora I is all-suite, all-oceanfront.