Excursion Desk

[Milly1966]

We are sailing on Horizon in a few weeks and am wondering if the excursion desk will be open right away when we get on the ship?  

[SlobMike]

I do believe they are. Question though, why don't you book prior to sailing?

[ABQrobin]

I think they are open on embarkation day BUT we always book online before cruise.  We really don't think the staff at the desk knows the answers to most questions about individual excursions (not their fault, they are on the ship, not out doing the excursions themselves).  A couple of times we have had to change excusions during our cruise (excursion canceled due to weather, port change,  someone sick, etc) and it was very frustrating for us.  The desk people do their best, but really I would rather read online about each excursion and pick myself rather than have the desk staff tell me what excursion is "great".  

[SlobMike]

Piggy backing off what @ABQrobin had said, you can research these excursion through the CL and also check around on the shipmate app. I set up a note shared w my DW so we can do our research and share each of our thoughts with each other. 

[shof515]

1 hour ago, SlobMike said:

I do believe they are. Question though, why don't you book prior to sailing?

 

some tours is only bookable onboard the ship by visiting the desk such as the behind the fun tours

the desk will be open when you board the ship, they usually close around dinner time like around 7pm or so

Edited January 13, 2019 by shof515

[Milly1966]

Yes, I should have been more specific. We are interested in the Behind the Scenes tour. Thank you for the responses!!

[crusinpsychRN]

4 hours ago, Milly1966 said:

Yes, I should have been more specific. We are interested in the Behind the Scenes tour. Thank you for the responses!!

 

This is a long tour. They never gave us a minute to use the bathroom!

[shof515]

49 minutes ago, crusinpsychRN said:

 

This is a long tour. They never gave us a minute to use the bathroom!

 

i have taken the tours on two different ships and they was always a break in the middle of the tour. One break is usually in the middle when they are near the crew mess or the crew HR office.