Question about Platinum status and tender ports

[Trishlo73]

My husband and I are booked on the Miracle with our friends who turn Platinum on the cruise.  We sail to Grand Cayman and Belize, which are both tender ports.  How does priority tender service work for Platinum guests? We are doing a non Carnival excursion in Grand Cayman, and I will get up super early to get my our tender tickets, but do our Platinum friends need to get tender tickets like everyone else?

[Schoifmom]

Your Platinum friends will get a letter in their room detailing the procedures for your sailing.  Typically, they will meet in a specific room and then be escorted to the first tender.  I do believe that they are allowed to bring a certain number of guests with them.

[Miller_KC]

No they just go to the Platinum window at guest services and they will be escorted to the next tender.  If it still works the same way, unlike the priority boarding,  they will be able to take a couple of guests with them.  No priority for the return tender.

 

[Frank12]

Yes. Everyone gets a ticket.

We are platinum and chose not to get off early recently so we did not go to the specified room at 6:45. When we went to get off at 11:00 am we still had to go to the casino and get tickets to get off even though there was no wait.

 

[Frank12]

2 minutes ago, Miller_KC said:

No they just go to the Platinum window at guest services and they will be escorted to the next tender.  If it still works the same way, unlike the priority boarding,  they will be able to take a couple of guests with them.  No priority for the return tender.

 

Just in Grand Caymen. They don't do it this way anymore. Platinums get a letter telling them where and when to meet for tickets.

[Miller_KC]

  7 minutes ago, Miller_KC said:

No they just go to the Platinum window at guest services and they will be escorted to the next tender.  If it still works the same way, unlike the priority boarding,  they will be able to take a couple of guests with them.  No priority for the return tender.

 

Just in Grand Caymen. They don't do it this way anymore. Platinums get a letter telling them where and when to meet for tickets.

 

Sorry about the out dated information.  We have avoided tenders on our last few cruises.

[Frank12]

2 minutes ago, Miller_KC said:

  7 minutes ago, Miller_KC said:

No they just go to the Platinum window at guest services and they will be escorted to the next tender.  If it still works the same way, unlike the priority boarding,  they will be able to take a couple of guests with them.  No priority for the return tender.

 

Just in Grand Caymen. They don't do it this way anymore. Platinums get a letter telling them where and when to meet for tickets.

 

Sorry about the out dated information.  We have avoided tenders on our last few cruises.

Don't blame you. We usually avoid tender ports also! By the way, I liked your (the old) way much better!

[PhillyFan33579]

52 minutes ago, Frank12 said:

Just in Grand Caymen. They don't do it this way anymore. Platinums get a letter telling them where and when to meet for tickets.

 

This has been our experience on recent cruises (getting a letter) to Belize and Grand Cayman. 

[maryred]

17 hours ago, Schoifmom said:

Your Platinum friends will get a letter in their room detailing the procedures for your sailing.  Typically, they will meet in a specific room and then be escorted to the first tender.  I do believe that they are allowed to bring a certain number of guests with them.

 

17 hours ago, Miller_KC said:

No they just go to the Platinum window at guest services and they will be escorted to the next tender.  If it still works the same way, unlike the priority boarding,  they will be able to take a couple of guests with them.  No priority for the return tender.

 

Both procedures are true, and depend on the amount on board that are qualified for the priority status. In situations where there is a great number of priority eligible passengers a meeting point other than the GS desk will be used for the first hour or 2 of launches. After the backlog in the general boarding ticket distribution or waiting area dies down usually anyone can just head down to deck A or 1 to board, but if there is a small line once there sometimes there is a seperate section for priority passengers to line up at and board the tender first. 

 

17 hours ago, Frank12 said:

Yes. Everyone gets a ticket.

We are platinum and chose not to get off early recently so we did not go to the specified room at 6:45. When we went to get off at 11:00 am we still had to go to the casino and get tickets to get off even though there was no wait.

 

Never heard of Platinum+ passengers needing a ticket or sticker from the general tender distribution location to board outgoing tenders. Usually the color coded S&S card is your ticket.

[sanmarcosman]

18 hours ago, Frank12 said:

By the way, I liked your (the old) way much better!

We didn't. On the Miracle we went to the desk and was told " just go down to the gangway, there shouldn't be a line. "

[Trishlo73]

19 hours ago, Schoifmom said:

I do believe that they are allowed to bring a certain number of guests with them.

Can anyone confirm that they are still permitted to bring 2 add'l guests?

[jabberjaw070596]

I was on the Magic in February and was able to bring my parents for priority tender in Grand Cayman

[Doggielover68]

On 6/20/2019 at 4:13 PM, Trishlo73 said:

My husband and I are booked on the Miracle with our friends who turn Platinum on the cruise.  We sail to Grand Cayman and Belize, which are both tender ports.  How does priority tender service work for Platinum guests? We are doing a non Carnival excursion in Grand Cayman, and I will get up super early to get my our tender tickets, but do our Platinum friends need to get tender tickets like everyone else?

Tendering on the Miracle is easy and fast. We are Platinum and got a letter telling us to go to a lounge. They didn't give us stickers as far as I recall. We got on the tender first and then they called a few tender sticker numbers to fill it up. No need to worry!