missing the boat

[booboojoy]

has anyone ( or know anyone) ever misse their ship because they were late? how strict are the cruiselines on this policy.

thanks

[SadieN]

Many have missed the ship.

 

They usually do not wait. Time is money--penalties staying at dock and casinos aren't open.

 

Plan on being on time. All aboard is 30 minutes before departure time.

[Tralynn]

Cruiselines are VERY strict on their boarding times, as they should be. Always arrive early.

[CruiserBruce]

OP- do you really think someone who missed the boat due to their own stupidity would come on here and announce it?

 

Before you say the obvious answer, understand that this question is asked here pretty regularly. And the answer I just stated is a common response. But, the fact is, I have seen one time where someone who had missed the ship came on, acknowledged that they had been drinking, cut it too close, and then blamed the cruise line for leaving them at the dock.

 

You can imagine how that was received.

 

The answer to your question is the cruise lines take this very seriously.

[Scrapnana]

Check some of the videos on YouTube. You will see people running down the dock often not making it aboard.

[Guerre]

OK so suppose you miss the sailing in CocoCay Bahamas or St. Maarten or whatever, and suppose further you have money and a passport, are there any plausible options for re-joining your ship? Or do you just try to get a flight back to Florida and hope there's some way to get your clothes, laptop, and contents of the room safe returned to you?

[1025cruise]

Well, CoCoCay is a private island, I would guess you would be rounded up.

As to the rest, the port agent will assist you in getting to the next port, at your expense.

[cb at sea]

Unless you're hiding, they will shepard you off Coco Cay or Labadee. At any other port, you are on your own, for the most part. It IS your responsibility to be on time.

 

Always set your WATCH (not your cell phone!!!) to whatever time the ship's clocks say as you depart in the morning...that way, you won't get local time mixed up with ship's time and you won't be late.

[fishycomics]

love the opinions.

 

sail date, due to weather, our friends had to rent a car, drive many miles to an airport, to make a number of connections, that cost thousands of dollars, to just make the ship. It would have been best to miss it and make up, but they were determined, and people have money, to burn....

 

Missing at the port. things happen for many reasons. and when they happen they happen for reasons, good, bad, and ugly.

 

We all are entitled to an opinion, and maybe some one will come in and chime about their experience. rather chuckle about it.:rolleyes:

[Northshorecruisers]

My son's girlfriend and her mother almost missed their ship on Saturday. Rather than fly in the day before, they left the morning of on a 7am flight out of Minneapolis. Their logic was that the flight didn't leave until 4pm.

 

About 1pm eastern time, got a text from the girlfriend. Their flight had just made an emergency landing in Orlando and they weren't letting them off the plane until a mechanic checked it out. Tears, tears, tears. She had called the cruiseline and they had said "So sad, too bad"

 

Not quite sure how they worked it, but they did manage to find a flight from Orlando to Ft Lauderdale. The ship waited and finally left FLL at 4:40. There were 7 passengers affected and I'm thinking at least one of them must have purchased their airfare through the cruiseline.

 

Had they not made the ship, their next plan would have been to meet up with it on Wednesday in Curaco.

[sail7seas]

Happy to hear it worked out well for your son's girlfriend and her Mom but surely everyone recognizes they were VERY, VERY, VERY lucky. Never count on that happening.

[Northshorecruisers]

Happy to hear it worked out well for your son's girlfriend and her Mom but surely everyone recognizes they were VERY, VERY, VERY lucky. Never count on that happening.

 

They were extremely lucky. I thought they were done for.

[PEB]

I worked on cruise ships and believe me they are serious about leaving the port on time. They will hold up the ship if passengers are on a ships tour and the tour is late getting back to the ship. They will hold up the ship if there is a medical emergancy, however the Captain will leave on time otherwise the cruise line will be paying a lot of money for just sitting at the pier waiting for passengers who did not want to watch the time. The Captains tend to get a little hostile if they do not leave on time.

[dread_pirate]

When the blizzard hit the Northeast in February, most flights on Friday and Saturday out of NJ, New York, Boston were cancelled. I'm sure that a number of ships left Florida that Saturday with a lot of empty cabins.

[chipq]

A couple years ago I was on a private catamaran excursion out of Puerto Vallarta and planned to get back to the pier an hour before sail time. Well, the currents sailing back to PV were much stronger than usual, likely that it was three days after the Japan earthquake and tsunami I suppose. The hour long sail back to PV was taking over twice as long. The captain recognized we were in jeopardy of missing the sail time and put us and gis first mate into his small tender. It was pretty exciting skipping across the outer bay, racing back to the pier. We made it with only 5 minutes to spare. There were a couple other pier runners behind us. Funny now and a great story to share with friends. At the time though, very stressful.

 

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[CFD130]

When the blizzard hit the Northeast in February, most flights on Friday and Saturday out of NJ, New York, Boston were cancelled. I'm sure that a number of ships left Florida that Saturday with a lot of empty cabins.

The Ruby left without us as we sat at the airport in Maine

[dsrdsrdsr]

P&O have an agent at every port who will arrange for you catch up with the ship, or get home, whichever is appropriate. At your own expense, of course. I should imagine most lines do the same. Certainly European lines do.

[sail7seas]

The Ruby left without us as we sat at the airport in Maine

 

 

I'm so sorry to hear the storm grounded you. We all worry the same could happen to any of us who have to fly to the port.

 

[OCruisers]

has anyone ( or know anyone) ever misse their ship because they were late? how strict are the cruiselines on this policy.

thanks

 

Yes, they are very strict about this.

 

If you are on a cruise sponsored excursion, they wait ... but not if you decide to go shopping and do not go directly back to the ship. If for some reason (very rarely happens) the ship has to leave when on a ship sponsored excursion, the port agent will take care of you for the night and get you back on the ship at n/c to you.

We've also had a couple of times when the port agent was contacted that someone was delayed because of a fall/injured and were getting back to the ship ASAP. Naturally, the ship waited.

 

There is really normally no reason not to get back at the requested "All Aboard" time. Just do it or the ship will leave you!

 

LuLu

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[wwcruisers]

has anyone ( or know anyone) ever misse their ship because they were late? how strict are the cruiselines on this policy.

thanks

 

I'm sorry, but you've been cruising on RC since 2010, with four cruises under your belt, and you don't already know the answer to this question? :confused:

[Cruisin' Chick]

I wasn't sure whether the OP was referring to the initial embarkation day or to port days.

 

It seems that with all the problems airlines have nowadays, plus the crazy weather, it really is smarter not to fly in the day of a cruise. The money spent on a hotel room is like extra insurance. A couple of cruises ago, about 200 passengers didn't make it on our ship, and the captain had even delayed sailaway for four and a half hours. But on top of snowy conditions at Heathrow and rainy conditions here in Los Angeles, this group didn't get to the port even by 8:30. And I imagine that anytime the ship has to speed up because it leaves later than planned, the ship consumes more fuel.

[fishycomics]

Day one arrival, Ship Will leave, you are not on board at 4pm Bye Bye.

 

Did you check in? No.

 

When the ship has you registered in their system, you are Forced to check out. rather them manually counting heads, tehy got you on record.

 

1000 people checked out , 999 came back on board. Jon Doe is missing. he is not counted for, he checked out. he never checked in.

 

At Port if you are not on a groups excursion. you will be missed.

 

At port if you are with a groups excursion of private, you will be missed

 

At port if you are registered on a groups excursion, need not worry, the whole group is taken care of.

 

So has anyone missed their ship, yes I miss Her very much, missing . being on her, getting breakfast.....

 

have a sense of time. you got a phone , place it on airplane mode and use it as your clock.

[Krazy Kruizers]

My son's girlfriend and her mother almost missed their ship on Saturday. Rather than fly in the day before, they left the morning of on a 7am flight out of Minneapolis. Their logic was that the flight didn't leave until 4pm.

 

About 1pm eastern time, got a text from the girlfriend. Their flight had just made an emergency landing in Orlando and they weren't letting them off the plane until a mechanic checked it out. Tears, tears, tears. She had called the cruiseline and they had said "So sad, too bad"

 

Not quite sure how they worked it, but they did manage to find a flight from Orlando to Ft Lauderdale. The ship waited and finally left FLL at 4:40. There were 7 passengers affected and I'm thinking at least one of them must have purchased their airfare through the cruiseline.

 

Had they not made the ship, their next plan would have been to meet up with it on Wednesday in Curaco.

 

They were lucky. It does sound as though that a couple of the other people on the plane had bought HAL's air and that was why the ship waited for awhile.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We have seen people miss the ship -- even crew members -- in various ports.

It can be very expenisve to catch up to the ship in the next port.

And you had better have your passport with you - and a credit card to handle all the extra expensives.

If it is embarkation day and you have not bought the cruise line's air -- the ship will not wait for you here either.

I always advise people to fly into the embarkation port 1 or 2 days early.

[booboojoy]

I'm sorry, but you've been cruising on RC since 2010, with four cruises under your belt, and you don't already know the answer to this question? :confused:

why , thank you and a good morning to you. i did not say I was ever late nor do I ever worry about me being late. My son and dil were " running" for their 1st cruise yesterday on disney dream. they were getting conflicting stories about all aboard from family on ship . soo it got me thinking about how other people have dealt with this. oh and to answer your question...yes i do know the answer to this question. thanks for your concern

:)