3 pm sailing time, what time to arrive?

[erdoran]

I'm sailing Bliss out of NYC and it says 3 pm sailing time, which means all aboard 1 pm.  Would boarding still begin 1130 am or do they move it back for such an early sailing?  thanks.

[BirdTravels]

Priority boarding will begin before 11:00. General boarding begins before 11:30. 

[erdoran]

Thanks, bird, just what I needed to know.  Maybe I'll do what I did last time, figure on getting to NYC around 945, which would be terminal maybe 10 or so.  Did that for the last cruise, which I think was 5 pm sailing and waited forever to board, this will be a shorter wait!

Edited September 6, 2019 by erdoran

[zqvol]

On 9/6/2019 at 8:54 AM, erdoran said:

I'm sailing Bliss out of NYC and it says 3 pm sailing time, which means all aboard 1 pm.  Would boarding still begin 1130 am or do they move it back for such an early sailing?  thanks.

 

Boarding will begin as soon as the ship is ready. It might start a few minutes early, but expect normal times. A 3:00 p.m. sailing is not much different than a 4:00 p.m. sailing and those run normally. All you may notice is that the terminal is more crowded for a longer time than with a later boarding when people have an hour or two extra to get to the ship.