Breakfast on the last day?

[HattieCR]

Our ship arrives at its destination at 7:00 am and is beginning another cruise that afternoon at 5 pm. In this kind of situation, what happens with breakfast? Obviously, crew and passengers will be busy but I wonder if there are any special arrangements for this? Sounds picky, I know, but just curious.

[forwardcabin]

Breakfast buffet is available on the last day just as it is everyday. To the crew and staff, it is another day like any other. Some, however, will be busy getting current passengers off and getting cabins ready for next cruise--otherwise the rest of the ship is business as usual.

[JanineM]

Which ship are you sailing on?

 

On the ships we have sailed on there is always a regular breakfast in the buffet, and sit-down service is also provided in the main dining room til maybe 9 am. Room service usually cuts off at around 1 am, so there isn't any cabin service.

[wwinfl91]

The best arrangement for breakfast the last morning that we have seen was on the Disney Magic. They schedule a breakfast with the same waiters you have had all week in the dining room you ate in your last night and give you a time to get there. You do need to vacate your cabin which means dragging your carry-on luggage with you to breakfast but it actually worked out great for us. We had driven over so we had the latest breakfast time, around 8:30-8:45 AM. After you finish your breakfast and no one hurried us, we said good bye to our waiters for the last time and walked off the ship and picked up our luggage. There were porters there to help take the luggage to your car for a tip and we were on our way home by 10:00 AM with no hassles.

 

They also offered buffet style breakfasts if you didn't have time or just didn't want to wait until your assigned time.

 

Most ships offer a buffet breakfast as well as sit down one but if you go to the sit down one the waiters always seem to want to hurry you out the door.

 

Anyway if you have time go to the sitdown and just take your time. Leave your carry-on luggage in the cabin but let your room steward know you are going to do that and be sure to give him an extra tip for his time.

 

Have a great next cruise.

[Guest TropicOne]

On my last 3 Carnival cruises pretty much everybody went to the buffet for breakfast.

[trainfan]

Princess operates a full buffet starting a bit earlier than usual. We just go up, have breakfast, go back to the room, collect the luggage we have (carry-on), go back downstairs, and wait to get off.

[Silvery Seas Cruiser]

Most cruise ships do leave for another cruise the same day they arrive back in port. Cruise ship personnel know folks have to eat a hearty breakfast because many will have a long trip back home that day. Thus, breakfast will be available often quite early...even 6:30AM.

 

Another thing I have found is that while cruise ship schedules may say they will have a seven AM arrival back at their home port, many cruise ships, in fact, arrive earlier, even as early as six AM because they want to get the day's work started. That doesn't mean, however, that you can leave the ship that early.

[Fredr]

Hattie,

 

On some ships, the main dining room is open for breakfast from 6:30 or 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM or so. The buffet is open as well. The ship's newspaper will have the hours the dining room and buffet will be open.

 

The waiters can clean up a main dining room rather quickly. And on disembarkation day, they will seat passengers in one section of the dining room.

 

As the next group of passengers come on board, the buffet is open for lunch but not the main dining room.

 

You will not go home hungry, that is, without breakfast.

 

While you are here, a couple of comments about the dining room. First, after you are on the ship, take a look in at the dining room (sometimes it is open to look at but no food is being served). See where your table is (in your cabin you will have a card telling you the number of the table you have been assigned to). Or, sometimes the table's number is printed on your seapass card. This wil save you the time looking for your table at dinner time.

 

Also, if you are at a big table (6 to 10 people), the conversation is usually muted the first night. There are lots of introverted people in this world and sitting down to dinner with complete strangers can be intimidating. But unless you really feel that this group will not work for you give it another night. If after the second night the group dynamics are not to your liking, see the Matre' D the next morning and request a change. he or she will truy to accomodate you but ask politely.

 

We have been very fortunate to have met very interesting people from all over.