Carnival Policy...Ship time/Port Time

[ykckby]

A couple friends and I have been searching and getting conflicting answers from people/travel agents and in fact Carnival.

 

Can anyone definitively say whether Carnival's ship time is in fact port time? This becomes important when cruising to Belize etc from FL after Daylight's Saving Time is in effect. (in this case last week of March)

 

Itinerary says in port 7 am to 4 pm....trying to figure out if this is Belize time or if based on Belize time we are in 5 am to 2 pm?

 

Help please and thanks

 

kim

[shof515]

about 99% of the time you will stay on SHIP time

[CrusinCyndi]

I just got off the Miracle and one of our stops was Belize. We were told to stay on SHIP TIME for each port.

[Umphreak2010]

Ship time will be whatever time it is in the port from which the cruise originates and stays the same. Don't rely on your cell either. It will update to local time and you'll miss the boat!! Stuck in paradise, how terrible.

[smarks]

Belize time will be two hours behind. So if you dock at 7:00 it will be 5:00 Belize time. We docked at 8:00 A.M. and not much open because it was 6:00 Belize time. This was last year, I don't think it has changed.

[fdwt994]

Every cruise I've been on, we were told to stick with SHIP time. Seems a lot simpler than adjusting our watches everytime we pull into a different port.

[G'ma]

The ship will remain on it's home port time. If there are any exceptions during your cruise, it will be glaringly obvious in the Capers delivered to your stateroom by being on the front page and several other places throughout the brochure..

[ykckby]

Thank you all so much....it surely will make a difference on any excursion decisions

 

kim

[ykckby]

I just got off the Miracle and one of our stops was Belize. We were told to stay on SHIP TIME for each port.

Cyndi....was the last tender back to the ship therefore at 2:15 Belize time? The itinerary says 7 to 4 which would mean the last tender back at 3:15 ship time? But, that would be an hour different than Belize and it would be 2:15 their time?

 

We're stymied because this would mean, factoring in daylight's saving time, that the last tender back when we go in late March would be at 1:15 Belize time....really cuts into any planning doesn't it?

 

kim

[klfrodo]

 

We're stymied because this would mean, factoring in daylight's saving time, that the last tender back when we go in late March would be at 1:15 Belize time....really cuts into any planning doesn't it?

 

kim

 

You're assuming that Belize even observes DST. Not every country nor every state changes their clocks like some of us do.

[Umphreak2010]

Cyndi....was the last tender back to the ship therefore at 2:15 Belize time? The itinerary says 7 to 4 which would mean the last tender back at 3:15 ship time? But, that would be an hour different than Belize and it would be 2:15 their time?

 

We're stymied because this would mean, factoring in daylight's saving time, that the last tender back when we go in late March would be at 1:15 Belize time....really cuts into any planning doesn't it?

 

kim

 

I would imagine that Carnival is giving you the tender schedule based on ship times as that is how they communicate all times to passengers so there is no confusion. Again, this is an assumption.

[yst347]

Belize does not observe daylight saving time (source) so once we change clocks the Florida departure cities will be two hours ahead of Belize City. Unless the ships changes time you can expect local time to be two hours behind ship time.