B2Bs... any experiences yet (US port embark/debark)

[Fogfog]

As it says in the title

Looking for B2B experiences US port of embark/debark

 

Very happy we are all sailing again

 

TYIA

[dexddd]

13 hours ago, Fogfog said:

As it says in the title

Looking for B2B experiences US port of embark/debark

 

Very happy we are all sailing again

 

TYIA

Which ship and port?

 

For Mera we were told slightly different versions. One by a guest doing third leg and another by head butler.

 

There is a report or two for Mera buried here somewhere.

[Markanddonna]

I'd like to know the procedures for COVID testing in between the B2B.

[surmy555]

1 hour ago, Markanddonna said:

I'd like to know the procedures for COVID testing in between the B2B.

We leave Saturday for a B2B on the Meraviglia. My TA contacted MSC and they indicated they will test us for free before the second leg.

[Fogfog]

2 hours ago, surmy555 said:

We leave Saturday for a B2B on the Meraviglia. My TA contacted MSC and they indicated they will test us for free before the second leg.

TY. Exactly what we needed  to know.

Have a great vacation. She is a lovely trip

 

Please drop in and let us know how they do the B2B movement.

On another line our small group went to a restaurant for breakfast, did all the electronic papers and was escorted off to a holding place, handed our new keys while the ship Zero'd out--and we were back on in 25 min.

With MSc it was a massive group--herded down into the terminal where we stood in line-- only to pass by the immigration while holding our passports -- the paperwork had been electronically filed.

 

We are sailing YC and the embarkation is very smooth... BUT the B2B was a mess.

I'd be inclined to leave the ship- go to the YC tent and "start over" each leg which is likely faster!

 

[Janet&Carl]

 I have had several b2b on MSC pre covid - there was never a problem just treated the change over day as a port day.

[dexddd]

19 hours ago, Fogfog said:

TY. Exactly what we needed  to know.

Have a great vacation. She is a lovely trip

 

Please drop in and let us know how they do the B2B movement.

On another line our small group went to a restaurant for breakfast, did all the electronic papers and was escorted off to a holding place, handed our new keys while the ship Zero'd out--and we were back on in 25 min.

With MSc it was a massive group--herded down into the terminal where we stood in line-- only to pass by the immigration while holding our passports -- the paperwork had been electronically filed.

 

We are sailing YC and the embarkation is very smooth... BUT the B2B was a mess.

I'd be inclined to leave the ship- go to the YC tent and "start over" each leg which is likely faster!

 

One of the reports was show up 9 am at the Olive restaurant.  YC guests go to front.  Get test, go out, biometric scan, back on ship.  Butler had slightly different account but I don't recall details.

[Fogfog]

18 minutes ago, dexddd said:

One of the reports was show up 9 am at the Olive restaurant.  YC guests go to front.  Get test, go out, biometric scan, back on ship.  Butler had slightly different account but I don't recall details.

TY

When we sailed YC last time--the Butler said we were to be escorted through and so on--the Butlers cannot get off the ship into the terminal.

There was no YC line/access and it took a while. This much older french couple (mid/late 80s) kept up with us and the pace...and standing there in the huge group. I felt terrible as my hs and college french has long since departed --and I wasn't able to be useful to them.

This B2B experience and the disembarkation are the two "holes" in the YC experience.

To be fair--MSC doesn't control immigration. In the past the Miami terminal for MSC did not have the facial recog/scannning and no US citizens line verses green card or visa holders. 😞

[Fogfog]

Any recent B2Bs out of Fl ports?