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I just got off Jewel 5/20 with 5am arrival. In my opinion a 8 am train departure would be cutting very close. We were # 23 for leaving the ship and walked out of the baggage claim area at 9am.

Did you have to go through customs? I assumed you had to but I've heard other people say they did not.

I have no experience with this and was mainly reading for an education, but I do know the Royal Customer Service will always say that as you never know when the ship will be late or a local inspection delays it. What happens if you miss your 8am train?

I can book a later train, but we are going to Venice so I was just trying to maximize my time since it's a 5.5 hour trip there.

Just off Jewel as well, and with number 5 I was off the boat by 7:15AM. Having never disembarked there before, I was unsure of how long it would take once I had my bags in hand. To my surprise, Grabbed my bags and walked directly outside. No customs, no screening, nothing. FYI, number 5 was the earliest a non suite, non pinnacle could disembark without doing self assist according to the chart they delivered with our dismbark number. We were originally assigned 18 and without issue were given the earlier number at guest services upon request.

Thank you. That's very helpful.

Thank you. I was thinking if we did self assist it could speed things up?

Does anyone have experience with disembarking in Civitavechhia with RCCL? We have an arrival time of 5am and my previous cruise experience has been that they start disembarking about an 1 to 1.5 hours later. I was going to book an 8am train ticket but when I called RCCL to get their thoughts I got the general answer that it could be hours later. I'm wondering if they are just being conservative? Did it take long to get through customs?

We've used it in the past and I was relying on it on our recent Baltic Sea Cruise and they never offered it. So, I didn't know if it was hit or miss or like another cruiser mentioned, you can actually request it?

Thank you!

Does anyone have a general idea of when Royal Caribbean will post their European cruises for 2018? NCL has theirs out, but nothing so far for RCI. Would love to get a head start on planning.