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edpacecar

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Hi my wife, daughter and 6 grand children will be in Grand Cayman on 08/13/08 on Carnival's Inspiration. They are booked on Carnival's Atlantis Sub tour (9:15 am till 10:45 am) Will they stay on ships time or Cayman time in port? If ships time I assume the tours from Carnival are on ships time also?? trying to see if enough time to take taxi to Turtle Farm (just farm part). When is last tender back to ship?

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Jenbo57

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Hi my wife, daughter and 6 grand children will be in Grand Cayman on 08/13/08 on Carnival's Inspiration. They are booked on Carnival's Atlantis Sub tour (9:15 am till 10:45 am) Will they stay on ships time or Cayman time in port? If ships time I assume the tours from Carnival are on ships time also?? trying to see if enough time to take taxi to Turtle Farm (just farm part). When is last tender back to ship?

 

We were there on 5/13 on the Valor. Arrived at 7:00 a.m., last tender at 3:15, departed at 4:00 p.m. Grand Cayman is one hour behind ship's time, and you always stay on ship's time.

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REMEMBER all ships are not necessarily on the same time. It depends on where your ship originally left from!

 

My ship left from Tampa, so yes Cayman time was one hour BEHIND for me. We got in at 7, which made it 6 Cayman time. I think the Conquest is Galveston based, which makes Conquest time the SAME as Cayman time!

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uh oh

I scheduled a tour and meeting time is 8:20 local time. Our boat says

we are scheduled in at 7. Which means that 8 Cayman time...

Will I make it???????

 

No, it would mean 6 Cayman time, not 8 -- assuming they are one hour behind ship's time. I love that the ships do this! In Roatan and Belize, local time was two hours behind ship's time, which meant we could sleep in a little bit, eat breakfast, etc., before heading off for our excursions.

 

Either way, if you booked through the ship, you won't miss your excursion...

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No, it would mean 6 Cayman time, not 8 -- assuming they are one hour behind ship's time. I love that the ships do this! In Roatan and Belize, local time was two hours behind ship's time, which meant we could sleep in a little bit, eat breakfast, etc., before heading off for our excursions.

 

Either way, if you booked through the ship, you won't miss your excursion...

 

Did not book through the ship. That what scares me. I put

a deposit down with a local company!!

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Did not book through the ship. That what scares me. I put

a deposit down with a local company!!

 

Really, you'll be fine. All of the tour companies know what time the ships arrive. We booked locally also (Moby Dick Tours), and they were exactly where they said they'd be, at exactly the (local) time they said they'd be there!

 

I will admit...all of this ship's time vs local time is a bit confusing...

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