Tenders into Bar Harbour

Sailing on Serenade next September and see that they tender in to port. We’ve been to Bar Harbour and Acadia several times so we may just stay on the ship. If we do decide to get off do tenders leave on a rotating schedule, say every half-hour or so, after the morning rush of passengers leaving the ship for excursions? TIA

Sailing on Serenade next September and see that they tender in to port. We’ve been to Bar Harbour and Acadia several times so we may just stay on the ship. If we do decide to get off do tenders leave on a rotating schedule, say every half-hour or so, after the morning rush of passengers leaving the ship for excursions? TIA

Just there recently (October) on Anthem....the tender's do run back-n-forth while in port...so you should have no problem.

Tenders go back and forth regularly as mentioned.

It is a tender port for all the cruise lines.

Keith

They use tenders from the Port of Bar Harbor, not off from the ship. We were there in October on the Serenade of the Seas and had no problems. The port tenders hold a lot of people each trip.

We were on the Crown Princess in October and unfortunately that tender process was not a positive experience. The cruise line did use one of the large vessels from Bar Harbor and the other vessels were the lifeboats from the ship. For some reason things ran very, very slowly and people were waiting for long periods of time to go ashore.

We were there in June on Norwegian and used lifeboats off the ship. They ran every 20-30 minutes or as soon as they got full. Very efficient for us and didn't have to wait much at all.

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We were there in June on Norwegian and used lifeboats off the ship. They ran every 20-30 minutes or as soon as they got full. Very efficient for us and didn't have to wait much at all.

 

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We were lucky (Anthem) and used an amazing larger boat that had two levels that included restrooms, a bar and lounge type seating.

Whether the ship uses lifeboats or port-based tenders, a major consideration is sea conditions. Even small waves will seriously delay boarding: in a flat calm, passengers can walk right on - probably one every five or ten seconds, while if there is even mild pitching, it can take twenty or more seconds per. Just an extra ten seconds per passenger means that it will take up to an extra fifteen minutes to load each tender.