anyone get off one ship and get on another same day?

[Eva65]

We want to do more than 7 days but not a whole 14 days. We are going to Disney first for about 4 days. thinking about going on a Carnival Cruise, then getting off that ship and going directly to a royal Carribean ship. Has anyone done this before? Does it work?

[B and C Blake]

We want to do more than 7 days but not a whole 14 days. We are going to Disney first for about 4 days. thinking about going on a Carnival Cruise, then getting off that ship and going directly to a royal Carribean ship. Has anyone done this before? Does it work?

 

Mike and Tracy did it 4 times b2b2b2b 4 different ships

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1281134&highlight=b2b2b2b

[firefly333]

I did it with a day in between in Miami. One ship returned on sunday, the 7 day ship and the 3/4 day ship left on Monday.

 

I did 3 B2Bs, but never changed ships and left the same day .. yet.

[Man of Many Hats]

In Dec we will get off the Valor after a 7 day in Miami, shuttle to Ft. Lauderdale and board the Freedom for a 6 day. Our cruises are limited a lot by airfare so we decided why not take 2 cruises with 1 airfare.

[sewut]

We did the 8 day Carnival Freedom out of Fort Lauderdale, disembarked, drove 3 hours to Port Canaveral, and embarked on the Sensation for 4 more days. If we were going to drive all the way to Florida we may as well make it worth our while. The Sensation cruise was free with Seamile points which made it even better.

 

Sewut

[Swann5]

Sure did! Last New Year's Eve, 7 days on the Miracle followed with 4 days on Destiny. We're doing another quasi back to back this new year: 7 days on the Liberty followed by 5 nights on the Liberty of the Seas. With the price of airfare, we like to get as many days of cruising as we can per flight. No chance of getting bored, different ships and crew, same great level of service! Go for it! :)

[Colorado Kat]

And sometimes the same ship swaps out itineraries every other time. We stayed on a ship for a b2b, and visited 2 different sets of islands.

[gck1249]

This Sunday we are driving from Orlando to Tampa to board the Legend for 7 Nights. We are going to get off the ship on Sunday October 2 as early as possible and drive home to Orlando. We will check email, check on the house, and leave for Port Canaveral by 12 noon to board the Sensation for 4 nights. Just have to hope all goes smooth and no problems getting off the Legend. This is the reason why we live in Florida.

[TinyG]

We are doing this next month! Imagination 3 day out of Miami, then driving to Ft. Lauderdale spending the night then we leave for 8 days on Miracle!

 

Not quite a b2b, but we might do that on that 2013.

[coachj]

I did it this spring moving from the Glory to the Valor. Paid a porter $10 to walk my luggage down to the Valor. No problems.

[adbnva]

in 2010 we drove to fl from va. went to miami for a 5 day on celebrity century, then drove to fll to sail next day on the solstice. we had parking at both hotels. i really like a 14 day on same ship. we are doing 6 days on carnival fantasy in nov and then drive to fll for 11 days on equinox.

we decided to do it last year because we wanted to hit 10 cruises on celebrity to reach elite, which has really great benefits. we really just try to do long cruises to make the trip worthwhile (whether driving or flying) ad

[tandemcruzr]

This past January, we sailed the Fascination 5 day out of Jacksonville. At the end, we drove to Tampa for a 7 day on the Legend that left the next day.

 

Next January, we are sailing a 5 day on the Paradise out of Tampa (Monday to Saturday) and then a 7 day on the Legend, also out of Tampa (Sunday to Sunday.)

[southbayer]

I did that before both on Carnival, one ship came back to port, and the other ship arrived right next to it, so I did a quik hop over, no prob or issues

We want to do more than 7 days but not a whole 14 days. We are going to Disney first for about 4 days. thinking about going on a Carnival Cruise, then getting off that ship and going directly to a royal Carribean ship. Has anyone done this before? Does it work?

[sjn911]

Sure love all your double cruise stories...Sarah

[riclop]

We did a cruise out of fll and than took a limo to miami for another 7 day cruise, lots of fun.

[queenL]

We are doing this next month. 4 days on Celeb Millenium and then 5 on Carnival Destiny.

Last year we did B2 B on the Celeb Summit. I love B2B's but we were a little bored as the 2nd week the shows and things were the same. The ports were different though. This time we are ship hopping and we think we will like this much better. We will literally get off one ship and walk down to the next terminal.

[csunshine860]

Last December we started with one from Miami, then rented a car alot cheaper than shuttles etc, stopped for wine etc arrived Port Everglades same day and boarded another CCL. Both were 7 days. Once off Freedom, went over and boarded MSC Poesia....easy to do....great with CCL having self serve laundry. Doing it again this year..... MIA, Port Everglades 2 times......a little rest on the beach in Deerfield for two weeks than first week of Jan on the Imagination from Miami before heading off to Canada......:D

[Smithkids5521]

We want to do more than 7 days but not a whole 14 days. We are going to Disney first for about 4 days. thinking about going on a Carnival Cruise, then getting off that ship and going directly to a royal Carribean ship. Has anyone done this before? Does it work?

 

I've never done it but my dream is to hop on a eastbound transatlantic- spend a week after getting off the ship wandering around Europe a bit, and then hop on a western transatlantic to come home (I really, really want to see Europe but really, really hate to fly! :D)

 

I think your plan sounds like a lot of fun Eva- as long as the 2 ships are going to hit different ports. But why not do a Disney cruise instead of Carnival or RCL?:)

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

I have don it twice.

[mrpayroll]

Not yet, but looking at trying to line one up for Jan 2013. Sounds better than a back to back on same ship because the shows would be different. Looking at CCL and then RCCL to mix it up a little...

[Bases5]

Yea it can be done as other's have said

We did a 5 day RCCL out of Miami and drove to Port Canaveral for a 3 day Carnival cruise. Did it on the same day.

We did the 3 day cruise to get our laundry done before we got home. LOL

[Jdleong]

We are doing the Oasis of the Seas for 7 days western and then walking across to the Carnival freedom for 8 days eastern. I like that we will have different menus, entertainment, different cabin stewards and waiter, than if we did a back to back on the same ship. Also we have to pay a lot to fly to Florida, so it is nice to stretch it out for 2 weeks. Only 5 weeks to go!

 

Jan

[Bo Didly]

Well not me personally, but I did see a fellow that fell off the Sensation get picked up by a Disney ship :D.

[Kutty1101]

We did it last January. I'd definately do it again!

[jrmende63]

We did it from the Carnival Freedom to the Carnival Splendor. Got off Freedom and walked to Splendor. Embarked with our Rum that was purchased in Jamaica on the Freedom. I went to Guest services and let them know of the sorta Back to back and they emailed Splendor that we were coming. We went through security with NO problems! We were bringing the Rum home to our son, but Carnival did not know that...we were not stopped at all.