Priority Tender on EDGE

[KruznKimmie]

How is EDGE managing priority tender at this time?  Do they have you meet in a specific location?  We will be in Europe next month and have several ports including Santorini where we will need to tender?  

[TeeRick]

On 4/3/2022 at 1:31 PM, KruznKimmie said:

How is EDGE managing priority tender at this time?  Do they have you meet in a specific location?  We will be in Europe next month and have several ports including Santorini where we will need to tender?  

Are you E/E+/Z or staying in a suite?

[KruznKimmie]

1 hour ago, TeeRick said:

Are you E/E+/Z or staying in a suite?

Both Elite & have a suite.

[jelayne]

In the past we would go to the Retreat Lounge/ Michaels Club when we were ready to go ashore and the Concierge would escort us to the front of the tender line.

 

Once on the ship ask the retreat Concierge how they are handling tendering.

[Straughn]

1 hour ago, jelayne said:

In the past we would go to the Retreat Lounge/ Michaels Club when we were ready to go ashore and the Concierge would escort us to the front of the tender line.

 

Once on the ship ask the retreat Concierge how they are handling tendering.

This has been my experience when staying in a suite. I think for non suite E/E+ there is a meeting place. I seem to recall the priority tendering is only available for eligible non suite passengers up to a certain time.

Edited April 4, 2022 by Straughn

[TeeRick]

21 hours ago, Straughn said:

This has been my experience when staying in a suite. I think for non suite E/E+ there is a meeting place. I seem to recall the priority tendering is only available for eligible non suite passengers up to a certain time.

Yes that is why I asked the question.  The suite passenger gets escorted by the Retreat concierge.  It is a bit of a mixed bag on different ships for the E/E+ passengers in my experience.  Sometimes there have been priority tickets handed out by the Captain's Club host.  Sometimes there has been no priority at all.

[jelayne]

40 minutes ago, TeeRick said:

Yes that is why I asked the question.  The suite passenger gets escorted by the Retreat concierge.  It is a bit of a mixed bag on different ships for the E/E+ passengers in my experience.  Sometimes there have been priority tickets handed out by the Captain's Club host.  Sometimes there has been no priority at all.

Pre Covid we had not had tender tickets in a long time.  They had E/E+ meet in a designated place and took us in groups of around 20  at a time to a tender.  Sometimes the wait was 25-40 minutes but still better than the long line.  Other ports were the port provided the larger boat for tendering it was quite fast. 

 

The E population has gotten quite large and one cruise there were over 400  hundred  Elite and they didn't offer any priority except for suites.

[Jim_Iain]

If you are in a suite you definitely will have priority tender service.    Usually you meet in Retreat and when they have a tender available the host will escort you down and you board the Tender.  

 

If in an Upper Suite the Butlers often offer to escort you down on demand but I never want to put them to bother and just go to the Retreat.