What is "turn around day"?

[Dayenu]

A poster mentioned it in her description of a transatlantic cruise.

[sminfiddle]

It's usually used in the context of repeating cruises that come back to the same port... it's day of docking at the embarkation/debarkation port.

 

Or for passengers on a Back-To-Back (B2B) journey, it's the port day that is shared by the two (or more) cruises. Other passengers get on, or get off... the ones continuing on the ship just "turn around" and go on sailing.

[Dayenu]

Thank you, Sminfiddle! I couldn't understand where the turn-around can be on TA - in the middle of the ocean :D So it's B2B.

[Kamloops50]

A poster mentioned it in her description of a transatlantic cruise.

 

She probably had the TA cruise booked with a cruise before or after .

Example : TA followed by a Caribbean cruise or a Greece Island cruise before the TA.

[AKman2495]

While what they say is true, the term "Turn around day" covers any cruise at an embark/debark port. It is the day that the whole ship turns around for the next cruise. That means getting the passengers off, getting all the luggage off, getting the ship ready and restocked, loading the new passengers and loading the new luggage in the time they have before sailing.

 

For those doing a B2B, they are actually called "in transit" passengers. It is not a turn around for them as they will remain on the ship and often in the same stateroom.

[OCruisers]

We often call it our "turn around day" because we return to our original embarkation port after the first sailing , stay on the same ship, and go back out for another sailing. :)

 

LuLu

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[Jim Avery]

AKMAN is right. I was going to be a bit more to the point. Turnaround Day is when they kick you off in the morning and greet me aboard a few hours later.:eek::D