Queen Mary 2 Arrival in New York Delayed?

[Chart Room Princess]

So I am at the cruise terminal now. They are not boarding until 2:30. We have a seat and they are checking in passengers.

[Kordy]

wow... there may be long lines !  Let's see.  Maybe it's not worth coming early.

[leyland1989]

Disembarkation was a zoo... 

Finally got on my LGA transfer 2 hrs later. 

[Chart Room Princess]

Here is a letter that port staff is handing out.

[Chart Room Princess]

We even received free water.

[exlondoner]

So far, so good, I imagine.

[Jim_Iain]

17 hours ago, exlondoner said:

Why would a viral outbreak cause delays?

 

Often after a Norovirus outbreak they have both CDC inspection (in the US depending on percentage) they also do a  deep cleaning and disinfection of all surfaces before boarding new PAX. 

[vieux_carre]

Eerie how this turned out…

 

I was reading this thread about the QM2 late departure.  Out of curiosity, went to the cruisemapper site to see if she’d left (saw that she just had), then went to the NY HarborCam site to see this live:

 

 

[exlondoner]

5 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

 

Often after a Norovirus outbreak they have both CDC inspection (in the US depending on percentage) they also do a  deep cleaning and disinfection of all surfaces before boarding new PAX. 

None of those would make the ship actually arrive late.

[*Miss G*]

9 hours ago, exlondoner said:

None of those would make the ship actually arrive late.

 

Agree.  The deep-clean may delay boarding but there would be no impact to arrival time.