Boarding Advice please from Celebrity experts

[swcruise]

Hello all,

Will be boarding Celebrity Equinox on Saturday in Miami, had been planning to get to the ship early as on a transatlantic flight on Friday and will have days post cruise to see Miami.

Have just had an email notification and they are giving timings based on deck. They did this as well when on the Silhouette in April, but as a select member they advised that boarding was at customers discretion. For this cruise they are only offering this to suite and Zenith members. 

Do any of you know if they adhere strictly to this, or will they allow boarding if you present at the port, would like to get on board and settle in but at the same time don't want to be hanging around a port terminal for hours..

Advice kindly welcome and it looks like Celebrity goes from G terminal in Miami ?

 

Tks in advance, S

[stevea36]

16 minutes ago, swcruise said:

Hello all,

Will be boarding Celebrity Equinox on Saturday in Miami, had been planning to get to the ship early as on a transatlantic flight on Friday and will have days post cruise to see Miami.

Have just had an email notification and they are giving timings based on deck. They did this as well when on the Silhouette in April, but as a select member they advised that boarding was at customers discretion. For this cruise they are only offering this to suite and Zenith members. 

Do any of you know if they adhere strictly to this, or will they allow boarding if you present at the port, would like to get on board and settle in but at the same time don't want to be hanging around a port terminal for hours..

Advice kindly welcome and it looks like Celebrity goes from G terminal in Miami ?

 

Tks in advance, S

They have never enforced boarding times at US embarkation ports.   That being said, I would show up at around 11am.

 

Steve

[leaveitallbehind]

Have never received an email indicating boarding times and have always arrived at the port around 10:30 or so and have boarded between 11:00 - 11:30.

[keesar]

They may board the Suite guests first as they may be in a private sitting area. Then it should be open to all.  We try to avoid the mad dash to get on the ship.

[Muffinz]

We had the same with our cruise on Solstice earlier this year - when we got the final information from Celebrity it said deck 9 was boarding 1:30-2-30pm or something, but I asked on this forum if they are strict with the boarding times and was told that celebrity are pretty flexible... we arrived about 10:30am, dropped our bags off and about 11:30 we got in the queue to board and about 30-40 minutes we were onboard with no problems

[swcruise]

Thanks all, appreciate the replies.