elbowroom Posted July 27, 2018 #1 Share Posted July 27, 2018 We've been given a 17.45 slot for a 20.00 departure (Hamburg, August 9). This seems a bit late, though I don't know whether being in Yacht Club this time has anything to do with it. I don't know when boarding starts for others, but obviously earlier. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preziosa Posted July 27, 2018 #2 Share Posted July 27, 2018 You Can book as early as you Want. Normaly They start boarding around 12 o clock. You have paid for the first Day, so Go as early as you Can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hematite153 Posted July 27, 2018 #3 Share Posted July 27, 2018 We've been given a 17.45 slot for a 20.00 departure (Hamburg, August 9). This seems a bit late, though I don't know whether being in Yacht Club this time has anything to do with it. I don't know when boarding starts for others, but obviously earlier. Any thoughts? Thank you so much for asking this. I finally found my embarkation time on my printed documents for tomorrow and it says 3:45pm and then later says that we can board any time from then until 2 hrs before embarkation (at 6pm), so, it's a 15 min window. We need to check out of our hotel for the night by 11am and I wasn't sure what I was going to do with my kids if we were stuck waiting around for 4+ hrs. Plus, the list of places we are expected to go/visit on the ship before dinner seemed unlikely with such a late boarding. I'm glad to hear that we will likely get on earlier if we arrive earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preziosa Posted July 27, 2018 #4 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Yes for sure They Will let your board as soon as they start boarding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skt4cruise Posted July 28, 2018 #5 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Our boarding time is 1pm, hotel checkout will be noon, we always go about 11am, this time in YC on Aug 9, Hamburg....see you at 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sverigecruiser Posted July 28, 2018 #6 Share Posted July 28, 2018 With priority boarding you can probably ignore the time. Without priority boarding MSC can say that you have to wait until your assiged time but I haven't heared that they do it. I don't understand why MSC assign a boarding time for passengers with priority boarding. Does anyone know why they do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbowroom Posted July 28, 2018 Author #7 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Thanks for the replies. It's a bit odd, as usually one of the "privileges" of any more expensive tariffs is the option of boarding first, rather than last!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sverigecruiser Posted July 28, 2018 #8 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Thanks for the replies.It's a bit odd, as usually one of the "privileges" of any more expensive tariffs is the option of boarding first, rather than last!? I agree with you. We were assigned a time 15.15 for 18.00 departure on Meraviglia last summer and we were in the Yacht Club. We ignored the time and boarded around 10.45. You can call MSC and ask about it but I think that you can just ignore it and arrive when you want and I'm sure that they will let you check in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sverigecruiser Posted July 28, 2018 #9 Share Posted July 28, 2018 You can see my opinion about this if you go to the "Ask a Cruise Question" forum and read the "Unfair boarding times" thread. Please don't post anything there! I prefer if that thread stays dead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Beamafar Posted July 28, 2018 #10 Share Posted July 28, 2018 ... I think that you can just ignore it and arrive when you want and I'm sure that they will let you check in. You're quite right, SC. They never pay any heed at the terminal to the time indicated on your tickets, regardless of whether you're entitled to priority boarding or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sverigecruiser Posted July 28, 2018 #11 Share Posted July 28, 2018 You're quite right, SC. They never pay any heed at the terminal to the time indicated on your tickets, regardless of whether you're entitled to priority boarding or not. Do you know if that's correct in Southampton too? I have heared that they might enforce the assigned times there. (Probably not for people with priority boarding but for others.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidari Posted July 28, 2018 #12 Share Posted July 28, 2018 September last year on Preziosa we got on about thirty minutes before our boarding time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruisingFox27 Posted July 28, 2018 #13 Share Posted July 28, 2018 We've just received our tickets for our next cruise, our embarcation time shows as 15.45 for a 18.00 departure . We'll be ignoring it and arriving in the morning. After missing the first day of our last cruise I'll be maximising the first day of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sverigecruiser Posted July 28, 2018 #14 Share Posted July 28, 2018 We've just received our tickets for our next cruise, our embarcation time shows as 15.45 for a 18.00 departure . We'll be ignoring it and arriving in the morning. After missing the first day of our last cruise I'll be maximising the first day of this one. I hope that they will let you check in early! Enjoy your cruise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Beamafar Posted July 28, 2018 #15 Share Posted July 28, 2018 We've just received our tickets for our next cruise, our embarcation time shows as 15.45 for a 18.00 departure . We'll be ignoring it and arriving in the morning. After missing the first day of our last cruise I'll be maximising the first day of this one. Absolutely, CF ... you were very unfortunate last time out. Is your next cruise an MSC one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruisingFox27 Posted July 28, 2018 #16 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Absolutely, CF ... you were very unfortunate last time out. Is your next cruise an MSC one? At least we were fortunate in being able to fly out and board the following day and didn't miss the whole cruise. It is. We are on Orchestra for an 11 night Baltic cruise. Very much looking forward to it :cool: We are Aurea so hopefully early boarding won't be an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Beamafar Posted July 28, 2018 #17 Share Posted July 28, 2018 We always turn up early (either due to an early flight or just wanting to head to the terminal straight from hotel check-out) - never had a problem in the many terminals we've boarded from. On the subject ... I found one particular boarding time on our tickets very funny - 14.52! I loved the preciseness of it, LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millineumwoman Posted July 29, 2018 #18 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Just curious which suites are yc on orchestra? As they don’t seem to have that option on my cruise on orchestra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirWolf Posted July 29, 2018 #19 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Just curious which suites are yc on orchestra? As they don’t seem to have that option on my cruise on orchestra No Yacht Club on MSC Orchestra. Suites with Aurea Experience are the highest category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millineumwoman Posted July 29, 2018 #20 Share Posted July 29, 2018 No Yacht Club on MSC Orchestra. Suites with Aurea Experience are the highest category. Ok just thought someone up above said they were yc on orchestra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Beamafar Posted July 29, 2018 #21 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Ok just thought someone up above said they were yc on orchestra No-one mentioned YC on Orchestra, which, as SirWolf has said, no YC area on her. Just as an FYI ... Before the Fantasia class was built, there was a YC on (some?) Musica class ships. Skier52 has more info on that subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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