Introduction
Which Cape Canaveral hotels offer the best views of cruise ships at Port Canaveral?
Here are 4 hotels with the best views of Port Canaveral:
- Holiday Inn Club Vacations Cape Canaveral Beach Resort
- Holiday Inn Express Cape Canaveral
- Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Cape Canaveral
- Homewood Suites by Hilton Cape Canaveral-Cocoa Beach
Summary of Cape Canaveral Hotels with Cruise Ships Views at Port Canaveral
At this time, only the Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn Club have unobstructed views of Port Canaveral. The other hotels offer distant views of the Port and the upper structures of cruise ships at some docks.
Book the top floors at all of these hotels.
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Cape Canaveral Beach Resort
Choose your room carefully for the best views! It is a very large hotel and many rooms face the wrong direction.
If you are sailing on the Carnival Mardi Gras from Terminal 3, you will sleep across the street in full view of the ship from any of the rooms shown below.
Oceanfront rooms 2501, 2502, 2503, 2504, 2505, 2506, 2507, and especially 2508 offer the best ocean views from the top (5th) floor. In the same building, rooms 2509, 2510, 2511, and 2512 face north towards Jetty Park and the ship channel for the closest ship views.
In the main building, top floor rooms 1529B (west edge), 1529A, 1528A, 1527, 1526, 1525A, and 1524A face north towards Jetty Park and the ship channel for the closest ship views.
Holiday Inn Express Cape Canaveral
The north-facing rooms have the best views.
If you are sailing on the Carnival Mardi Gras from Terminal 3, book rooms 440, 442, 444, 446, 448, or 450.
The 3rd or 2nd floors will also work.
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Cape Canaveral
As seen below there are limited views of the cruise terminals from the top floors of the north-facing rooms.
Homewood Suites by Hilton Cape Canaveral-Cocoa Beach
Cruise ship views from the higher floors (6th is best), odd-numbered rooms face the pool and Port area.
