Text about Embarkation times came today

Today I received an email from Celebrity listing embarkation times for our Aug 30 cruise out of Venice. They are assigned by your deck. It has been a while since we sailed on Celebrity- is this usual?

We arranged our personal water taxi transportation months ago, and can’t change it now. Do they adhere to these times exactly?

No, they are suggested times, not required times. The terminal is not large enough to hold all the passengers, so they are trying to spread out the boarding process to reduce congestion.

As Cruisestitch indicated, it is only a request. If that time does not work for you, you will not be denied boarding by showing up at a different time.

Have a great cruise

The times are suggested and not required. They will board you if you attend out of time. But these are measures brought in to ease queuing in small ports. If everyone attends out of time then the boarding times will spiral and this will end up being mandatory. You won't be the only ones thinking like this. Venice particularly is very small, with little or no facilities. If you attend outside your suggested time - and you won't be alone - you will wait longer. In particular if you have a relatively late boarding time quite a few of those suggested in your time will have attended outside it. You'll breeze through!

Thank you everyone.

I look at it this way, they told us the best time to avoid standing around in cramped, hot quarters. If we decide to go at another time, our choice and we can’t complain if we are in a long line with no where to sit.

I look at it this way, they told us the best time to avoid standing around in cramped, hot quarters. If we decide to go at another time, our choice and we can’t complain if we are in a long line with no where to sit.

Just curious about your feelings or thoughts about those people on whose time you might choose to encroach, may they complain?

Just curious about your feelings or thoughts about those people on whose time you might choose to encroach, may they complain?

Complain to Whom? They won’t know who is encroaching on ‘their time’ and will just get in line to check in along with all those encroachers.

And the OP isn’t choosing to encroach. As most of us do, they set up transportation to the dock ahead as they should and now are told times to check in by deck. This is someone who did what is expected and is the norm.

Den