Geiranger Tender

[Ladybug18]

Hello, 

We will be on the NCL Prima in July and according to NCL we will need to tender to Geiranger. Our ship is suppose to arrive in Geiranger @ 8AM. 
 

We are looking to book a non NCL tour @ 9:30AM in Geiranger. Would we be able to make the 9:30AM tour in Geiranger if we have to take a tender? I know the NCL scheduled tours will tender first. Thoughts? 

[Huntingdon1701]

That should be fine. It's not a long tender trip. Just make sure you pick up tender tickets as soon as they're announced so you're in an early group. 

[Ladybug18]

On 4/25/2023 at 2:03 AM, Huntingdon1701 said:

That should be fine. It's not a long tender trip. Just make sure you pick up tender tickets as soon as they're announced so you're in an early group. 

Thank you! I checked our NCL Latitudes rewards and according to the list we get priority tenders so I guess that means we can get on a tender earlier than some? 

[MagnoliaBlossom]

Yes.  They will announce how it works that morning and at what point priority passengers can proceed to the gangway

[Huntingdon1701]

4 hours ago, Ladybug18 said:

Thank you! I checked our NCL Latitudes rewards and according to the list we get priority tenders so I guess that means we can get on a tender earlier than some? 

 

Yes, it will. But it only means you can join the queue early and not cut in front, so you'll still need to get there early. 

[Ladybug18]

4 hours ago, Huntingdon1701 said:

 

Yes, it will. But it only means you can join the queue early and not cut in front, so you'll still need to get there early. 

Yes of course. I wonder if they’ll do tender tickets prior to arrival? When we went to NCLs private island you could reserve tender tickets a day or two before arrival. At that point I didn’t have the priory tender tickets on my latitudes. 

[MeHeartCruising]

1 hour ago, Ladybug18 said:

Yes of course. I wonder if they’ll do tender tickets prior to arrival? When we went to NCLs private island you could reserve tender tickets a day or two before arrival. At that point I didn’t have the priory tender tickets on my latitudes. 

 

On the newer NCL ships that I have been on, you electronically get a "ticket" using the video screens located around the ship.  You insert your key card, and up will pop a list of the available time slots for the upcoming tender.  I think it was just the day before the port, but I could be wrong on that.  If earlier time slots are full they won't show them to you on the screen.  So you pick from those that are available.  I don't recall how the priority aspect of this worked.  I'm platinum, so I suppose they must have held a few of the early time slots aside for priority members.  But I really just saw the time slots that were available to me and I could pick it.  I was able to see my selection in the phone app, so I could remember what time I had picked.

[Huntingdon1701]

Yes, it's always been the day before that they become available. 

[ontheweb]

Definitely learned something from this thread that the tender tickets become available the day before.

 

Would I be correct in assuming that if one books one of NCL's excursions, tickets are automatically provided?

[MeHeartCruising]

49 minutes ago, ontheweb said:

Definitely learned something from this thread that the tender tickets become available the day before.

 

Would I be correct in assuming that if one books one of NCL's excursions, tickets are automatically provided?

 

This is correct.  Except there aren't really any tickets involved.  If you're booked on an NCL excursion, you do not need a tender ticket and you do not get one.  Nor do you need to reserve one on the computer screens on the ship.   You will board whatever tender they put you on when the employee escorts your group from the excursion assembly location to the tender boat.

 

It's pretty common that they are using 2 locations to launch tenders from on the ship.  One is for the NCL excursions and one is for the rest of the passengers.  This is not always the case, but pretty common.   If they only use one location, they will take the excursion group to the front of the line for the tenders and make sure they get off in a timely manner so as to not hold up the excursion.

Edited April 29, 2023 by MeHeartCruising

[ontheweb]

2 hours ago, MeHeartCruising said:

 

This is correct.  Except there aren't really any tickets involved.  If you're booked on an NCL excursion, you do not need a tender ticket and you do not get one.  Nor do you need to reserve one on the computer screens on the ship.   You will board whatever tender they put you on when the employee escorts your group from the excursion assembly location to the tender boat.

 

It's pretty common that they are using 2 locations to launch tenders from on the ship.  One is for the NCL excursions and one is for the rest of the passengers.  This is not always the case, but pretty common.   If they only use one location, they will take the excursion group to the front of the line for the tenders and make sure they get off in a timely manner so as to not hold up the excursion.

Thanks. I expressed myself poorly when I asked the question about tender tickets for those on an excursion. I of course meant to confirm that one does not need to do anything to get those tickets if booked on an NCL excursion.