Vancouver Arrival Time?

We are arriving on a Celebrity SB Alaska Cruise in Vancouver on 8/31. I would like to take a tour that would pick us up at our hotel at 11:30 (Hyatt Regency Vancouver). Will we be able to get off the ship, cab to the hotel and meet the tour?

The tour we took (LandSea) would pick up at the cruise port and then drop off at either airport or hotel, so even though you almost surely can make it off the ship and to your hotel in time, do you need to?

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The tour we took (LandSea) would pick up at the cruise port and then drop off at either airport or hotel, so even though you almost surely can make it off the ship and to your hotel in time, do you need to?

 

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Thank you - I will look into this. If the ship is delayed, will the tour wait for you?

Those sound like questions you should ask the tour operator. Is the tour JUST for people who will be disembarking your ship? Then likely they'll wait. If it's a general tour with people who are NOT cruisers, probably not.

11:30? Considering that you'll be kicked off the ship before 10am, and could walk to the Hyatt in about 10 minutes, the only way you're missing this tour is if your ship sinks, is taken over by pirates, suffers catastrophic engine failure, the worst storm ever rolls in and forces you to hole up in an earlier port, or the Rapture occurs and sweeps up all the lovely Catholic Filipino crew leaving the ship lolling around with just the boozy gambling passengers on board;-)

In any of these cases you have much bigger problems to worry about than the fact that there's no way in heck any tour operator will wait for you, since the tour is booked from your hotel and nothing to do with the cruise!!! LandSea are indies, they won't wait for just one delayed ship even if it's booked as a post-cruise package, they'll fill the buses they have and then move off - but if there are enough folks booked on just your ship (likely as they have small 16 seater buses) they might send another bus later to meet you guys for the good PR.

Ships are pretty much never late getting into Vancouver barring ridiculously unusual circumstances though - since it's almost always the terminus port, even if you have an engine pod failure or similar the line will skip an upstream port to ensure they get back to Vancouver on schedule. Otherwise they'd miss out on all the lovely money from the next batch of passengers who need to be loaded on board (and even if this happens later on the normal turnaround day, there's a hefty extra charge for overtime for US CBP officers for all the AK-bound trips, as well as shoreside cruise minions and the longshoremen...)

I wouldn't have any problem with this plan. Very doable.

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I booked with LandSea.