trish1c Posted December 10, 2017 #1 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Vacation time is scare. I get most of the risks but how risky is this: Leave NYC on Friday night, arrive in Hamburg before noon on Saturday. Is that a reasonable amount of time to make a 9:00 p.m. sail away on MSC? It's a 6 hour margin of error. Yes I realize that biting the bullet & & arriving Friday before noon would be better. If that is not an option, can we do the above? Airline choices are Swiss Air, Brussels Air or Luftansa if that makes a difference. Of course we would have trip insurance. First cruise day is a sea day. First port is Southhampton England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilly2015 Posted December 10, 2017 #2 Share Posted December 10, 2017 If you arrive in Hamburg in time or max 6pm , you will have no problem to be in time at Hamburger Hafen. Taxi from airport to Cruise Terminal takes around 25 minutes in normal traffic. Is your stopover with Lufthansa in Frankfurt or Munich? I would decide for Lufthansa then, as they have many flights to Hamburg daily, more or less every other hour. Flughafen Hamburg is not that big, not to compare with NYC but we get along😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted December 10, 2017 #3 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Can you do it? Yes. Is it risky? Absolutely. Never a good idea to fly in the day of the cruise. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twickenham Posted December 10, 2017 #4 Share Posted December 10, 2017 I don't know your travel dates, but searching a random Friday in July I found a United non-stop flight to Hamburg from EWR, leaving at 5:30 pm and arriving at 7:15 am. Is that a possibility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danish viking Posted December 10, 2017 #5 Share Posted December 10, 2017 There are also some options with SAS via Copenhagen but they are what I would call expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mara93 Posted December 13, 2017 #6 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Are you departing from Hamburg or Kiel? I believe both are doable but it would be wise to fly in the day before "just in case" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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