Umm times of Arrival & departure? Why can’t I find them Pre-cruise?? Or am I loosing the plot 😂

[JG&Lcruisingnewbies]

Hi, we’re due to depart S’hampton tomorrow, 22nd on Iona

 

on other cruises I’ve been on I’ve known arrival & departure times for each port (but of course know they can change)

 

p&o? Can’t find any! Bruges, Rotterdam, Hamburg nothing. Or am I being stupid?

 

even the Cruise ship schedule for the ports don’t have times

they are like, yeah it arrives. Then it leaves 😂

 

I’d like to plan a bit of our day in port. Can’t do shore experiences everyday & honestly, somtimes, I’d rather take my time & have freedom of when I leave ship & return… 

 

…if I only knew what time ship leaves. Bit important to know that 🤔 😂

I guess I’ll be finding out the night before docking then?!

 

hope captain is in a good mood 😂 

 

[davecttr]

P&O don't seem to do arrival and departure times. I guess this is to discourage passengers from booking independent tours

[showingdiva]

Southampton departure 6pm (maybe, because she's rarely away on time)

 

Hamburg (27th)  7am - 7pm

 

The rest seems to still be a random mystery of early mornings and early evenings.

[Eddie99]

Zeebrugge 05.30 - 18.00

Rotterdam  07.00 - 21.00

 

Found via Whatsinport.com but even that is not as helpful as it used to be.
Bon voyage (and don’t sue me if what’s important is wrong or if I’ve transposed the details incorrectly) 

 

[Son of Anarchy]

6 hours ago, JG&Lcruisingnewbies said:

Hi, we’re due to depart S’hampton tomorrow, 22nd on Iona

 

on other cruises I’ve been on I’ve known arrival & departure times for each port (but of course know they can change)

 

p&o? Can’t find any! Bruges, Rotterdam, Hamburg nothing. Or am I being stupid?

 

even the Cruise ship schedule for the ports don’t have times

they are like, yeah it arrives. Then it leaves 😂

 

I’d like to plan a bit of our day in port. Can’t do shore experiences everyday & honestly, somtimes, I’d rather take my time & have freedom of when I leave ship & return… 

 

…if I only knew what time ship leaves. Bit important to know that 🤔 😂

I guess I’ll be finding out the night before docking then?!

 

hope captain is in a good mood 😂 

 

Not an exact science, and a bit time consuming, but:

 

Go into Cruise Personaliser

Go into Shore Excursions

Do a dummy booking for various excursions for each port.  CP should display a start time, and an approximation of the duration of the trip.

 

A guesstimate at best though.

 

 

[TigerB]

As Eddie99 writes, you could also have a look at the cruise ship movements for each port; I did that for a recent cruise and while not precise, it wasn't far off.

I've also used Son of Anarchy's idea too.

[wowzz]

And even if you don't know the exact timings, if you book an independent excursion,  all reputable companies will be aware of ship departure times. 

[bee-ess]

11 hours ago, JG&Lcruisingnewbies said:

Hi, we’re due to depart S’hampton tomorrow, 22nd on Iona

 

on other cruises I’ve been on I’ve known arrival & departure times for each port (but of course know they can change)

 

p&o? Can’t find any! Bruges, Rotterdam, Hamburg nothing. Or am I being stupid?

 

even the Cruise ship schedule for the ports don’t have times

they are like, yeah it arrives. Then it leaves 😂

 

I’d like to plan a bit of our day in port. Can’t do shore experiences everyday & honestly, somtimes, I’d rather take my time & have freedom of when I leave ship & return… 

 

…if I only knew what time ship leaves. Bit important to know that 🤔 😂

I guess I’ll be finding out the night before docking then?!

 

hope captain is in a good mood 😂 

 

For the future if you do another cruise - I always email P&O and ask them for the actual port times and ask them not to send the morning, evening etc but the actual times. They have always sent them to me about a month after asking. Here is an example of what they send

 

 

[JG&Lcruisingnewbies]

Thank you all for your replies. They certainly don’t make it easy!!!

 

royal carribean, NCL, both tell you quite a while before you depart so I was pretty confused

 

i looked on the actual cruise ports own schedules and for P&O the all said arrival date, departure date, then under the times it was just N/A.

I’ve not used whatsinport before so thank you. Dummy bookings and emailing them- I’ll definitely do in the future.

 

Thank you for finding out the times for me. Don’t worry, I won’t sue anyone, promise 😂 

appreciate you all! 🙏 😊 

 

 

[majortom10]

They used to give you actual times of arrivals and departures but stopped doing it some years ago, Cunard are exactly the same.

[purplesea]

Venture Ashore are a company that organises excursions and they publish the arrival and departure timings, you just need to fill in your cruise details.