I'd go a little later to be safe. The boat may dock late, and you may not be in the first group of people to get off the boat.
When I went on my cruise my boat docked at 7am and I think i took a 12:00 flight. You should be able to make it just make sure you have all your luggage, passports and everything ready because everyone makes a mad rush to get off the boat first. Try and get ready early so you don't have to wait long
I would do later to be safe. When we go on our cruise for the honeymoon I think the cruise docks at 8 am and I am going to try and get an afternoon flight. I don't want to miss it if I get an early one.
I wouldnt risk it, I would take a later flight. At least an hour or two later. I've been on many cruises before and sometimes I got off the ship pretty quickly and one time it took over 3 hours and it was chaos! You never know what could happen so I would say to try and find a flight a little bit later.
yea 'deboating' can take a long time, but what we did on our cruise was volunteer to be the first ones off (which means you take your own luggage instead of the workers handling it for you) and get off the boat at 6 am, before they let everyone else off. You can call your cruiseline and see if you have that option but I don't know if it'll be too early for you
Posted by MikeandJess
yea 'deboating' can take a long time, but what we did on our cruise was volunteer to be the first ones off (which means you take your own luggage instead of the workers handling it for you) and get off the boat at 6 am, before they let everyone else off. You can call your cruiseline and see if you have that option but I don't know if it'll be too early for you
When we docked it seriously took close to 2 hours to get off...everyone gets luggage tags with a color and letter on it. So we went to have breakfast first before they started calling the number and letter...It went SOOOOO Slow, we were waiting forever for them to call our group, our luck i think we were the last ones. We just had to sit in the dining hall.
Posted by MikeandJess
yea 'deboating' can take a long time, but what we did on our cruise was volunteer to be the first ones off (which means you take your own luggage instead of the workers handling it for you) and get off the boat at 6 am, before they let everyone else off. You can call your cruiseline and see if you have that option but I don't know if it'll be too early for you
They tell you not to book flights before like 2:00. Personally, I think you'd be perfectly dafe with a flight at 1:00, but I definately wouldnt risk 11:30. You never know what might come up with security or delays with docking.
Book it later to be safe, but they do let the ppl off first who have flights. But you can still be sitting there for quite some time.
might as well stay on the safe side...
Posted by Espo22
Posted by MikeandJess
yea 'deboating' can take a long time, but what we did on our cruise was volunteer to be the first ones off (which means you take your own luggage instead of the workers handling it for you) and get off the boat at 6 am, before they let everyone else off. You can call your cruiseline and see if you have that option but I don't know if it'll be too early for you
yeah i didnt know we could do that, i wish i would've known bc i would've definitely carried my own
Carnival gives you a pass when you get on the cruise if you show proof that you have a early flight so you will be the first one off the boat with the VIP's
Definitely make it later, I've been on 2 cruises where I didn't get out until like 10:00-10:30. Plus you can explore and maybe go shopping or sightseeing before you go home if you make it a later flight.
Posted by MikeandJess
Posted by Espo22
Posted by MikeandJess
yea 'deboating' can take a long time, but what we did on our cruise was volunteer to be the first ones off (which means you take your own luggage instead of the workers handling it for you) and get off the boat at 6 am, before they let everyone else off. You can call your cruiseline and see if you have that option but I don't know if it'll be too early for you
yeah i didnt know we could do that, i wish i would've known bc i would've definitely carried my own
yea we had to do it b/c we had a wedding that day and we needed to get off the ship early but after reading what pure chaos it is to disembark any other way I think that's what we'll be doing from now on. Crowds of people make me![]()
