B2B Cruises on RCL

[vxv0409]

Hello

 

Not new to cruising, but still have a "newbie" question. If you do a B2B cruise, and you're assigned the same stateroom.. do you have to pack and get off the ship and re board and unpack luggage again or will they let you just stay on?

[kitty9]

Of course they don't make you pack and leave the ship. What you will do is meet at the appointed time and location where you'll be escorted off the ship to go through US Customs and Immigration, if your cruise is indeed in the US and not in the Med or other foreign locations. The night before the end of the first cruise, you will be given your new sign and sail card that you'll use to get back on the ship once you go through Customs and Immigration, along with any other pertinent information for that morning. BTW, the only time you have to pack is if you don't have the same cabin for both segments. But with that, you'd get help from your cabin steward with moving your belongings to the new cabin.

[vxv0409]

Thank you very much! :D

[firefly333]

My experience was NOT the above. We got the new S&S cards in the port building while we were being escorted off the ship. I would warn you this varys by ship.

 

I also had to change cabins, and my steward knew it and no offer of help .. I had to move by myself. I was told later, well duh, you should have offered him $20 and he would have helped. .. so I would take the above as sometimes true.

[phish tales]

Of course they don't make you pack and leave the ship. What you will do is meet at the appointed time and location where you'll be escorted off the ship to go through US Customs and Immigration, if your cruise is indeed in the US and not in the Med or other foreign locations. The night before the end of the first cruise, you will be given your new sign and sail card that you'll use to get back on the ship once you go through Customs and Immigration, along with any other pertinent information for that morning. BTW, the only time you have to pack is if you don't have the same cabin for both segments. But with that, you'd get help from your cabin steward with moving your belongings to the new cabin.

 

 

 

We have done many b2b (15--20) on rccl and we never got our sign & sail card the night before. always out front when they escort you off to go thru customs. we were back on the ship in less than 1/2 hour.

[Keith1010]

Hello

 

Not new to cruising, but still have a "newbie" question. If you do a B2B cruise, and you're assigned the same stateroom.. do you have to pack and get off the ship and re board and unpack luggage again or will they let you just stay on?

 

I want to clarify something.

 

If you are returning to a USA port on the first cruise then you will have to get off the ship at the end of the cruise. However, if your first of the back to back cruises does not end in a USA port then you do not have to get off the ship and you can stay on the ship or do what you want in port.

 

Keith

[isujim]

My experience was NOT the above. We got the new S&S cards in the port building while we were being escorted off the ship. I would warn you this varys by ship.

 

I also had to change cabins, and my steward knew it and no offer of help .. I had to move by myself. I was told later, well duh, you should have offered him $20 and he would have helped. .. so I would take the above as sometimes true.

 

I have found Fire to be right on here.........it will vary by ship. Best advice is to list your itinerary on the RC boards.........somebody will have done your b2b and can tell you exactly what to expect. I have done the same thing on checking out a b2b out of San Juan on RC.

[Colorado Kat]

Since you are Back2back, you will be the last off the ship, and the first back on the ship.

[bonsai3s]

I want to clarify something.

 

If you are returning to a USA port on the first cruise then you will have to get off the ship at the end of the cruise. However, if your first of the back to back cruises does not end in a USA port then you do not have to get off the ship and you can stay on the ship or do what you want in port.

 

Keith

 

 

Keith1010...thanks!

 

We wanted to know the same thing. We are sailing this fall on B2B, RCCL's Navigator of the Seas. The first cruise ends in starts and ends in Civitavecchia. The second cruise will be a Transatlantic...Civitavecchia to Ft. Lauderdale.

 

We just found out that we have been assigned different cabins for the B2B sailings. What are the chances of staying in the same cabin? If not, can the cabin steward move our bags (the second assigned cabin is only 2 doors down.) Our plan was to get off the ship as early as possible at the end of the first cruise and take a train to Rome. We were concern that most of our morning will be wasted moving cabins...:)

 

Thanks for your advice.

[Dayenu]

I was with a couple who was doing B2B with debarkation in Copenhagen. They had to leave the ship, all instructions and the new key cards were in their cabin the night before.

 

They had the option to go back after customs (or was it passport control?) or visit the city and come back later.

 

Don't remember if they said anything about packing - the same cabin, probably not.