Check-In times of Port of New Orleans

Does anyone know how strict they are on check-in times at the Port of New Orleans? We have priority boarding but another family that is going with us has a check-in time of 1:00-1:30. We were hoping that the other family could check-in before 1:00 but didn't want to show up at the port to only have them get told to come back later. We are leaving on the Dream this Sunday.

In 2016, they were quite strict. They were turning people away who showed up early.

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I don’t think they’ll get in the building before 1pm...and they shouldn’t. What if everyone ignored their check-in time and just showed up early?

They enforce check in times in NO

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Was just on the Dream out of New Orleans last week. They were not at all enforcing check in times. Saw many 1:30pm and beyond check in times at 11:30am.

That said, it wasn't really an issue. Like I said, we got there at 11:30am. We were in the boat by noon.

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Last year in NOLA they made us show our boarding passes out front before they let us in the building.

Every time I've cruised from NOLA (last time in January), they checked boarding passes before allowing anyone into the terminal.

We sailed out of NOLA at Thanksgiving. They were looking at boarding passes very closely.

If you can, get FTTF for your friends.

We have been out of nola 4 times. 3 of the times they were checking and strickly enforcing boarding times. one time we showed up 30 minutes early because it was the last shuttle from hotel and told us to go on through. So it might just luck or how busy it is at that time

We sailed out of New Orleans in January. The shuttle from the hotel to the dock had to have a minimum number of people before they would run it so we wound up getting to the port early. We walked right in with no problems.

After reading about this on the forum I guess we got lucky and I wouldn't risk showing up early again if I could avoid it. The wife is demanding FTTF for our next cruise so it's hopefully not going to be an issue.

Every time I've cruised from NOLA (last time in January), they checked boarding passes before allowing anyone into the terminal.

Same here. I think they even double check sometimes....have people outside checking before they'll let you in...and another inside checking before you go up the escalator.