Quick embarkation review on Jade Sept 26

[dhanakorn]

9 hours ago, Muckyduckway said:

Can you still use the Spinaker lounge as normal, or is it out of bounds during the periods of testing?

Do you know whether you can schedule your debark test on Saturday morning, or do you have to wait to be given a time and then ask for the time to be amended? Who overseas the achedule - guest services?

You can still sit in the far back of the lounge. 
 

You might try to postpone the Friday afternoon testing to Saturday but they’ll keep announcing your name on Saturday morning. The time on the test result letter is the time when they collected the sample. The swap was performed by NCL crew. 

 

[dhanakorn]

Plenty of yellow taxis waiting at the terminal on the debarkation day. My taxi driver charged me a flat 30euro from the port to Syntagma square (I paid 13euro from hotel to the port). I don’t know if he intentionally skipped the meter or it’s always a flat rate fee. But it’s a bit more expensive than I expect. You can prearrange some transportation service to pick you up at the terminal. 
 

If I remember correctly, on the embarkation day, the Jade was docked where the Apex is in the picture below. I think they switch the berth location a little bit but still in the Terminal C area. 
 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 3, 2021 by dhanakorn

[Muckyduckway]

Thanks for these and answering all my questions. Much appreciated.

Safe home.

[Tante Din]

Can you tell me your itinerary ?

We will be on board Nov 7th and we do not have Corfu as one of our ports and will be in Katakolon until 6pm at the day before Santorin. 

Just curious when our tests will be on the ship.

 

Nadine 

[Muckyduckway]

6 hours ago, Muckyduckway said:

Thanks for these and answering all my questions. Much appreciated.

Safe home.

And of course I have another question!

Did you notice the latest debark time? Thinking of booking a ride and avoiding the throngs.

[GatorMomInNC]

Thanks for the info and the picks!!   We will be boarding in 2 weeks 🚢

[dhanakorn]

1 hour ago, Muckyduckway said:

And of course I have another question!

Did you notice the latest debark time? Thinking of booking a ride and avoiding the throngs.

They ask you to leave the room by 8:30am and leave the ship by 9:30am. I left around 8:30am and there’re still quite a few people on the ship. Pre-arrange a ride is probably cheaper than taking a yellow taxi from the terminal. 

[dhanakorn]

9 hours ago, dhanakorn said:

You can still sit in the far back of the lounge. 
 

You might try to postpone the Friday afternoon testing to Saturday but they’ll keep announcing your name on Saturday morning. The time on the test result letter is the time when they collected the sample. The swap was performed by NCL crew. 

 

I talked to a couple who is flying back on Tuesday. They postponed their test until Saturday morning. But test has to be done before leaving to Santorini. 

[Muckyduckway]

40 minutes ago, dhanakorn said:

They ask you to leave the room by 8:30am and leave the ship by 9:30am. I left around 8:30am and there’re still quite a few people on the ship. Pre-arrange a ride is probably cheaper than taking a yellow taxi from the terminal. 

Yes, I think you're right, plus less waiting hopefully.

[dhanakorn]

Last night of the cruise I had dinner at Jasmine - free asian restaurant. Food was surprisingly great! I had better service than Le Bistro. Specialty restaurants were very busy and I feel like the wait staffs were super tired. If you come to Jasmine late, you can enjoy the live music from the stage downstairs while having dinner. 
 

 

 

 

 

[Muckyduckway]

35 minutes ago, dhanakorn said:

I talked to a couple who is flying back on Tuesday. They postponed their test until Saturday morning. But test has to be done before leaving to Santorini. 

Yes, I believe the tests are processed by a lab in Santorini. Think we'll try for Sat.

[Muckyduckway]

2 minutes ago, dhanakorn said:

Last night of the cruise I had dinner at Jasmine - free asian restaurant. Food was surprisingly great! I had better service than Le Bistro. Specialty restaurants were very busy and I feel like the wait staffs were super tired. If you come to Jasmine late, you can enjoy the live music from the stage downstairs while having dinner. 
 

 

 

 

 

Looks good, maybe we'll give it a go. Went to the equivalent on the Star and found it very disappointing so haven't been back. I guess each ship is different even if the menu is the same.

[Muckyduckway]

How was the cocktail?

[debenson0723]

Thank you so much for all of this information.  Enjoyed it very much.  We board in a few weeks. Not sure if I missed this but do you know how many passengers were onboard?  Just trying to gauge waits for dining on such a port intensive cruise.  And appreciate the disembarkation information.  We have a flight at noon to Milan so want to get to the airport as soon as we can.  Safe travels home.

[dhanakorn]

If you’re flying back home from ATH, allow plenty of time at the airport. Long line at United check in counter (highly recommended that you upload all the documents online so you can print out the boarding pass and bag tag). 

If you fly back to US, there’s long line at passport control. 
 

[djacobson]

I appreciate all the information! My wife and I are excited about cruising on the Jade on November 7. 

Is the cruise line offering travel from the ship to the airport?

 

All the COVID testing requirements I have read so far are very confusing. We are staying overnight in London before returning to Dallas post-cruise. From what I have read on the UK government web site, you have to book and pay for a COVID test to be taken before "Day 2" if you are fully vaccinated. I am confused about this because we are not staying in the UK more than 24 hours. 

[tammyjw305]

Thank for the review, pictures, and covid procedure details! We are going in June; things may be different by then or not...

 

Thanks, 

Tammy

[cookmg40]

Thank you for this information. My Jade cruise isn’t until May, 2022 but this is helpful.

 

I know it was asked, but is the ship sailing at full capacity?

 

Marilyn