Multiple Start/End Points

[hal2008]

How does logistics work with such cruises?

(muster station training, welcome and goodbye events)

 

For example, a particular ship doing a circle trip in western med can be sold both as

starting and ending in barcelona as well as

starting and ending in rome

 

[MicCanberra]

IME, muster is held at every port where people are embarking for the people who embark there.

[FionaMG]

^This. And welcome and goodbye events are based on whichever port is considered the primary port, so they are out of synch for everybody else. On one such cruise (MSC) we had the goodbye event before the welcome event. 

[Markanddonna]

We could always tell who just embarked the Grand because they didn't know how the high tech elevators worked. The new folks had little impact on the other  passengers.

[TheOldBear]

17 hours ago, hal2008 said:

How does logistics work with such cruises?

(muster station training, welcome and goodbye events)

 

For example, a particular ship doing a circle trip in western med can be sold both as

starting and ending in barcelona as well as

starting and ending in rome

 

 

Cunard will often have several segments of the same 'voyage' available for booking as separate cruises. For example the M929B round trip had passengers on segments including  NYC to Southampton, NYC to Hamburg, Southampton to Hamburg, Hamburg to Southampton, Hamburg to NYC,  Hamburg to Quebec, LeHavre to NYC - and likely other combinations.

 

We only had required muster station attendance once, pier side in NYC [Brooklyn Cruise Terminal], and for the first time we left the PFDs [life jackets] in the room. Each embarkation port had its muster drill for new passengers, all at deck 7 muster stations. These were before the 'all aboard' time for in transit passengers, so I do not know how disruptive they were.