Can you drop off luggage before your embarkation time?

[juanarcin]

Leaving out of gavelston on rc and I've seen the messages about not showing up early. But our hotel won't hold our luggage and we have to check out at 11. Our boarding time is at 12:30 so it's not the end of the world but it's our parents first time and we would hate to have their first experience start with them standing outside in the sun for an hour and a half holding luggage! Can we drop it off and wander around for an hour? 

[mom says]

Have a look at the Google images of the cruise port. There is no place to wander around. It's one cruise terminal after another. Yes you can drop off your luggage early, but you would need to leave the port area  to find a place to stroll.  Instead, after check out at 11, why not just have a late gbreakfast or relax in the lobby of the hotel until it's time to leave for the ship?