How do disembark one day early when you are overnighting the last night.

Hello,

My husband and I are going to have our last night on the ship in Buenos Aires. We have heard it is possible to leave the ship a day early if you are overnighting. We really do not like the frenzy of disembarking with the entire ship. What do we have to do to make this happen.

Thanks for any help,

Andrea

Hello,

 

My husband and I are going to have our last night on the ship in Buenos Aires. We have heard it is possible to leave the ship a day early if you are overnighting. We really do not like the frenzy of disembarking with the entire ship. What do we have to do to make this happen.

 

Thanks for any help,

 

Andrea

I think all you have to do is call the cruise line or your TA. But you’re making the cruise more expensive by paying for a room, service and food for a day that you won’t be there.

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Your can let them know earlier (now) as posted before, or just wait until you get on the ship and let the Desk know you will be leaving during the overnight. I don’t want to make assumptions about your cruise experience, but you do realize you’d get to see a very interesting city with a ‘complementary’ hotel room and enjoy BA. We’ve been there overnights and loved it. Wandering the city, taking a city tour and a night at a nice restaurant and a Tango demonstartion which was fantastic. It started with how the dance evolved and is now. Excellent show and great food.

But if you are actually going to leave this city early because of a bit of crowd, just let them know. Not a big deal. There are Many Ways of not getting caught up in a crowded departure, but up to you.

Den

You do have to handle this with Celebrity. Once you are cleared to disembark early it is best to also inform Guest Relations early in your sailing to obtain their protocol.

You will be responsible for moving your luggage from cabin to exit and you must have all luggage in tow as you exit the ship.

Please be aware that when you disembark you will not be permitted back on the ship and your sea pass cards will be turned over to security as you leave the ship.

There's probably no problem doing this, but you definitely need to get pre approval to do this. Contact the cruiseline or go through you TA if you booked with one. Celebrity may have to make notification with Argentinian immigration ahead of time to authorize the full disembarkation a day early.

Thank you all for your responses. We were leaving the ship early, also, to have a room with late check out for the next day. If we are able to find a hotel that will give us a day rate we will stay on the ship until the end and brave the crowds. We are not in a hurry to exit the ship as our flight does not leave until 930 pm on the last day of the cruise. I have been on over 30 cruises and the worst part for me is always disembarkation.

Andrea

Thank you all for your responses. We were leaving the ship early, also, to have a room with late check out for the next day. If we are able to find a hotel that will give us a day rate we will stay on the ship until the end and brave the crowds. We are not in a hurry to exit the ship as our flight does not leave until 930 pm on the last day of the cruise. I have been on over 30 cruises and the worst part for me is always disembarkation.

When the weather is nice, we find a quiet, out-of-the-way place to hang out on an upper deck.

It is entertaining just sitting by the railing, watching the hustle and bustle down on the dock below.

However, once off the ship, that cruise terminal in Buenos Aires can be a disorganized, chaotic mob scene if they have several ships unloading passengers at the same time.

At least that was our experience when we disembarked there. Maybe it is better now.

In Europe, Celebrity offers the Extend Your Stay program where you can pay extra to stay on board the ship longer. I don't know if it is available in South America.

Some people like it, but it does not appeal to us because you lose access to your stateroom and need to remain in the public areas of the ship.

For the price they charge for 2 people to remain on the ship for a few hours longer, a day room at a hotel is a preferable alternative to us.

That way you can stretch out and take a nap, and have your own private bathroom.

Also, a hotel pool area should be a lot more peaceful and attractive than the ship's pool area as a place to spend some time on a debarkation/embarkation day.

Thank you all for your responses. We were leaving the ship early, also, to have a room with late check out for the next day. If we are able to find a hotel that will give us a day rate we will stay on the ship until the end and brave the crowds. We are not in a hurry to exit the ship as our flight does not leave until 930 pm on the last day of the cruise. I have been on over 30 cruises and the worst part for me is always disembarkation.

 

Andrea

Our flight from Buenos Aires also left at 9:30 pm on debarkation day. We booked a fun excursion through the cruise line to the Tigre Delta, basically a relaxing boat ride. The bus then dropped us off at the airport. It turned what could have been a long boring day into a memorable one.

it is actually very easy to disembark a day early. We did it last year in Buenos Aires. We were staying two weeks after our arrival in BA so decided to disembark the first day to allow us to arrive after checkin time and not worry about our luggage.

You can advise Celebrity early or just let them know once on the ship. Also near the end of the cruise you will get your disembarkation questionnaire and one of the questions on when you are leaving has the option for leaving on the first day in port.

We were staying in a suite so I also let the MCC know. I was assured there was no problem and they were right.

The day we chose to depart early - we got up late and enjoyed the almost empty ship. Since we did not have a check in until 2:00 PM we decided to have lunch and then disembark.

Our butler loaded all of our luggage onto hotel type luggage carts and escorted us off the ship and onto a shuttle that took us to the port terminal. Once in the terminal we found our pre-arranged driver and were off with no problem.

One thing you might also consider is getting Uber set up on you phone. Uber is available and VERY INEXPENSIVE. As a matter of fact regular Taxi's are very reasonable

We will be doing the same thing in about a month in Yokohama. .

This is interesting. I didn't know you could disembark early. We're doing an Alaska cruise next year that visits Victoria BC in the evening, then goes to Vancouver to disembark next morning. But then we have to take a flight or 3 hour ferry back to Victoria to go home that day. If we can just get off the ship and stay off, we'll save a day of travel. (we don't live in Victoria, but that's the easiest way to get to our home in Washington)

I'm glad I saw this. Thanks OP for posting.

This is interesting. I didn't know you could disembark early. We're doing an Alaska cruise next year that visits Victoria BC in the evening, then goes to Vancouver to disembark next morning. But then we have to take a flight or 3 hour ferry back to Victoria to go home that day. If we can just get off the ship and stay off, we'll save a day of travel. (we don't live in Victoria, but that's the easiest way to get to our home in Washington)

 

I'm glad I saw this. Thanks OP for posting.

I’d definitely do that, what you’d lose in staying the last night you’ll save in the chaotic disembarkation in Vancouver and travel.

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People reading this thread should keep in mind that if you are considering leaving the ship a day early, on cruises outside the US there aren't many potential problems. But for cruises in the US, there might be issue with the cabotage laws (PVSA).

On the Alaska cruise in question, getting off at either Canadian port is no problem.

But there are itineraries where disembarking early would not be allowed, so don't just assume that it's easy to do in all instances.

People reading this thread should keep in mind that if you are considering leaving the ship a day early, on cruises outside the US there aren't many potential problems. But for cruises in the US, there might be issue with the cabotage laws (PVSA).

 

On the Alaska cruise in question, getting off at either Canadian port is no problem.

 

But there are itineraries where disembarking early would not be allowed, so don't just assume that it's easy to do in all instances.

Good to know. Thank you!

You will be given a questionnaire when you board asking for a two hour disembarkation window, from the moment the ship arrives until the next day.

There is really nothing you have to do in advance.

Only issue, however, is if the ship does not overnight and you want to leave the cruise at another port.

We just did this very thing on our Constellation cruise (which ended with an overnight in Venice). Our debarkation was only a couple of hours prior to the start of the actual debarkation (we needed to catch an early train), but the process is the same if you leave one hour early or prior to the overnight in port. You can leave any time after the ship is cleared when it arrives in that port. You do not need to do anything pre-cruise. You do need to notify Guest Services several days prior to arrival in that last port (on our cruise, there was actually a notice in the daily ship publication advising of the deadline). Seems the ship needs to give a list of early disembarking guests to the port for passport control reasons (or something along those lines).

You might consider doing what we did, stay over hat last night and just get off before everyone else.

Be advised that early disembarking means you are on your own to get luggage off the ship (just like self-disembarking).

Hope this helps!!

My sister and I did just this on another line where our cruise ended in Papeete with an overnight. Arranged in advance for disembarkation the evening we arrived in Papeete and it went smoothly.

We stayed on-board until after dinner, and our butler handled our luggage all the way to a cab we had pre-arranged to bring us to the airport for our 11:50 p.m. flight. Otherwise we would have had to find a day room the next day which would have required check out at about 4:00 p.m. then what to do for the next 5 hours till we arrived at the airport.

Really worked in our favor!

I met a couple on our recent TA who were getting off in Lisbon instead of Southampton. They said that not only did they get no credit for the unused nights but they had an extra fee for disembarking early!

Yes, that is how the downline disembarkation works. There is a fee for getting off at an early port. There may not be for what the OP wants (getting off on day 1 of an overnight)

Thank you for the continuing information. We are still deciding what to do. We usually do not like the last night of the cruise. It seems so disjointed and the meals in MDR are usually not great. I hate the crush to get off the ship and I do not like to have to wake up early the last day of our vacation. Lots to think about.

Yes, that is how the downline disembarkation works. There is a fee for getting off at an early port. There may not be for what the OP wants (getting off on day 1 of an overnight)

No fee for embarking a day early in Buenos Aires when the ship is docked there overnight; you are correct that there generally is a fee if one is debarking early at a different port than where the cruise ends (and this latter situation also typically requires advance arrangements with Celebrity whereas leaving early in the final port when the ship is docking overnight doesn't require advance arrangements and can be easily arranged while on-the-ship - at least in Buenos Aires).

I did this on Infinity several months ago in Buenos Aires and it worked very smoothly - only minor negative was since it was not a typical time for leaving there no taxis lined up at the port and it took a little while to get one. We were doing a late dinner at a restaurant called Aramaburu which is a ways from the port; since we were not going to be done with dinner until after 11pm, it seemed silly to take a cab back to the ship, go to sleep, then take a cab back to a hotel for a post-cruise stay in the morning. Hotels are very reasonably priced in Buenos Aires, so we just booked a hotel a short walk from Aramburu.

I met a couple on our recent TA who were getting off in Lisbon instead of Southampton. They said that not only did they get no credit for the unused nights but they had an extra fee for disembarking early!

Why on earth would they expect credit for unused nights? It’s not like the cruise line can resell the cabin!

Why on earth would they expect credit for unused nights? It’s not like the cruise line can resell the cabin!

Agreed! And if you figure out the per night fee, leaving early can be a pricey decision.

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We have done this previously as the only way we could take the cruise in the first place. Although we requested prior approval (as we have multiple times when we have left a ship mid cruise and rejoined at another port), we were told there was no prior approval needed if the ship docks a day early and has already been cleared. We just had to advise guest services. The last time we did this was a few years ago after arriving in Singapore.

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The fee is $65 pp to leave early. We are doing it in Naples

It cost money to leave early? Is this an overnight port?