Luggage drop off at Southampton

[sandav]

More help needed. When we arrive at the port will we be able to just drop off our luggage with the porters and leave the port without checking in. We would like to go to Asda and buy some wine for the cruise. Our check in time is around 11am but we will be coming from Southampton airport around 9.30am. Can we drop off luggage as early as that. How much wine can we take onboard? ( Eclipse 3rd August)

Thanks

[nmg85]

Not sure about the dropping off of luggage. But 2 bottles of wine per stateroom is the wine allowance.

[cruiserhal]

Yes, on our recent cruise from Southampton, the luggage drop off was at a different area then the check in. Just drop off the bags and you can get your wine.

[Xport]

But having sailed round-trip Southampton twice and having also ended a Transatlantic there, I suspect that 9:00 AM may be somewhat early--by perhaps as much as sixty [and perhaps, ninety minutes]--for checking luggage for the next sailing...

 

In each of the three cruises I've ended in Southampton, there were still passengers disembarking the ship [albeit, the last of them] and claiming luggage from the just-completed cruise at 9:00 AM and later... In general, check-in for newly arriving guests does not begin until that disembarkation process is complete and the luggage handlers are staged to accept luggage for the next sailing...

 

You might want to consider first going to the Holiday Inn on Herbert Walker Avenue [or The DeVere across the street] for breakfast before walking over to the ship--very easy/very short with a port gate adjacent to the hotel--to check luggage and then head out for the shopping you have planned...

[Lotus Girl]

We couldn't drop our luggage off until 10 am so had to sit around for nearly an hour after the early flight from Edinburgh to Southampton.

[sandav]

Thanks everyone. We might go and get some breakfast and come back a little later.