Tender Question

[cruisenovice2017]

When you are at a tender port, do you sign up for a specific time to get off the ship or do you just kinda show up and wait for a spot?

[CharlesKru]

If you book excursions through the ship, they will have you arrive at a time and place on the ship to get tendered off.

 

If you are platinum/diamond/FTTF then you can go to a different place to get off the ship before they open it up to everyone else, thought usually mixed with the excursions or sometime after them.

 

Once they are done with the early wave of excursions they will allow anyone to just show up and hop on the next tender.

 

Hope that helps.

[ABQrobin]

People start lining up in the halls, starting an hour before doors open to the tenders. No kidding, if you don't HAVE to be off the ship in the first 30 minutes, just wait. Within the first hour almost everyone gets off that is getting off. Then you don't have to stand in lines that wind around the hallways on Deck 2 (or deck 1, whichever they are using for the tenders.) They usually have 2 tenders loading at a time, and it does go fast. No need to line up unless needed.

[cruisenovice2017]

The only time we'll tender is at Half Moon Cay, and even then we'll just be hopping off to enjoy the beach and a few adult beverages. We have no excursions planned.

[cb at sea]

Agreed....no need to "rush" off...eat a leisurely breakfast, let the pushers and shovers go, and then hop on the next tender!

[Anthomaniac]

Depends on the ship, after excursion and priority folks, some run a tender ticket system where you show up to a particular spot (it was alchemy on our last cruise) then you get a ticket and that determines your tender boarding order.

 

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[SadieN]

Depends on the ship, after excursion and priority folks, some run a tender ticket system where you show up to a particular spot (it was alchemy on our last cruise) then you get a ticket and that determines your tender boarding order.

 

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Adding on....

All in your party need to get their own tickets if you want to be in the same tender.

[cruisenovice2017]

Just two of us on the Elation....