Crown Princess, ship-time or local time?

[ROXIETHEHORSE]

Does anyone know if the Crown Princess is keeping time to island-time or ship-time?

 

One of our excursions said that from November to March, ships may operate on ship-time rather than local time due to daylight savings.

 

TIA.

[easyboy]

It’s usually local time. If the excursion is by a private tour operator, they are aware of ship’s arrival time.

 

 

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[Pam in CA]

With very few exceptions, Princess ships follow GMT which the local port normally follows. In other words, ship time is usually local time.

[Cuizer2]

No matter what is happening, it is always ship time.

[ROXIETHEHORSE]

I prefer ship time and local time to match. Who wants to do math on vacation? [emoji3]

 

 

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[paul929207]

On Princess, the ship time is almost always set to local time.

[fishywood]

The USA starts Daylight Savings time on March 11, 2018.

 

If your cruise is after that date then ship time will be identical to port time in most Eastern and Southern Caribbean ports which remain on Atlantic Standard Time year round. If before that date those ports are an hour ahead of ship time at embarkation but it is very very likely that the ship will move the clocks forward to AST before arriving at the first port and back to EST the night before returning to Port Everglades.

 

Now if you are on a Western Caribbean sailing we need more information ad to exact sailing date and the port in question as Grand Cayman, Mexico, and Central America all have different policies as to when (or if) Daylight savings time is observed.

 

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[ROXIETHEHORSE]

Eastern Caribbean. Feb 2nd.

[Cuizer2]

The USA starts Daylight Savings time on March 11, 2018.

 

If your cruise is after that date then ship time will be identical to port time in most Eastern and Southern Caribbean ports which remain on Atlantic Standard Time year round. If before that date those ports are an hour ahead of ship time at embarkation but it is very very likely that the ship will move the clocks forward to AST before arriving at the first port and back to EST the night before returning to Port Everglades.

 

Now if you are on a Western Caribbean sailing we need more information ad to exact sailing date and the port in question as Grand Cayman, Mexico, and Central America all have different policies as to when (or if) Daylight savings time is observed.

 

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It is Daylight Saving Time (there is no "s" at the end of Saving). See link below ...

 

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-savings-time.html

 

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is often wrongly referred to as “Daylight Savings,” with an “s” at the end. Other common variations are “Summer Time” and “Daylight-Saving Time.”

Princess ships do seem to change their clocks to match local time. Earlier this month I was on the Royal Princess ship. While we were visiting the ports in the Atlantic time zone the ship advanced its clocks one hour to match the local time.

 

Some other cruise lines do this also. Some other cruise lines leave their clocks set to the home port time. Either way, you must always remain on ship time, whether or not the ship time is the same as the local time.

[goldfada]

Eastern Caribbean. Feb 2nd.

 

Clocks will move forward one hour on 2/4 at 2 am and back one hour on 2/10 at 2 am. Ship's time will match local time in all ports.

[ROXIETHEHORSE]

Woo hoo!

[geoherb]

We have sailed on several Princess cruises where the ships did not always change their time to match local time. Once, in Costa Rica, it caused confusion with our local tour operator. He did not realize our ship would be an hour earlier than he thought. Fortunately some of his friends were able to call his cell phone number for us and meet us without having to wait the whole hour.

[releck97]

Any advice on Feb. 18 western Car. cruise?

[Cuizer2]

Any advice on Feb. 18 western Car. cruise?

 

Yes, provide more information so that other will know what information you are seeking.

[skynight]

Any advice on Feb. 18 western Car. cruise?

On every Princess Caribbean cruise I have been on the ship time is changed to match the port time. You will be notified in the Princess Patter, and with a notice in your cabin of all time changes.

[Kingofcool1947]

Does anyone know if the Crown Princess is keeping time to island-time or ship-time?

 

One of our excursions said that from November to March, ships may operate on ship-time rather than local time due to daylight savings.

 

TIA.

 

Set your watch to local time. So you won’t miss the ship when she sails out of ports of calls.