Question for Pride Cruisers!!

[brwnzfan32]

I am booked on the July 4 cruise out of Baltimore. I am looking at booking my return flight and was wondering what time you were off the ship??According to the cruise schedule, we don't arrive back to port until 10:00 a.m. The other cruises I have sailed, I was off the ship early. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

[Railshot]

Just off this week. Carryoff luggage started getting off about 9:45, we were zone 1 and were off at 10:45.

[DanJ]

Our experience last year was they weren't particular one when people left. They were calling the people carrying off their own luggage by deck, but they weren't checking if the people who were leaving were supposed to yet. I could tell something was up when they called even cabins on deck 1 (about 60 cabins worth), and by the time they called odd cabins on deck 1 almost a half hour later, there was a line-up at customs that stretched almost back to the ship.

 

We had checked our luggage, so we didn't try to jump the queue because we didn't know if the luggage was in the claim area yet, and we got off just after noon.

[cruisernh]

To the OP i hear ya. We are going the 8th of August. I booked a flight I could change with no charge. I picked a 12:30 flight.

[sophiecruiser]

Debarkation on March 14 was so slow that we weren't off until 11:30. We did not choose self-assist (carry off your own luggage). We began to get nervous at 11am when the self-assist passengers were still being called (we had 1:30 flights from BWI). Went to guest services and they explained that even if they let us off, our luggage hadn't been screened yet. They told us that immigrations 'screens' all the luggage with drug sniffing dogs in the terminal. So we had to wait until 11:15 before we were escorted to the front of the line by a cruise employee. We were told that the delay had to do with immigration/security. I wonder if the time change had anything to do with it - that was the morning we pushed the clocks ahead one hour.

 

If I had a 12:30 flight, I would recommend self-assist debarkation.

[Tiffany1203]

I would book a flight for 130pm or later.

[highbridge5]

Ship arrived on time, maybe a few minutes early so debark process was on time - maybe even started early. 10:30 AM was probably about right for the start of when they started letting people off the ship.

 

Self-Debark was first.

Then in zones starting at zone 11 and working downward.

 

It seemed like the self-debark period was 45 minutes or more before they started calling zones for checked-luggage debarkation. I am not sure why the long period - volume of pssgrs??? customs???

 

Zone 11 - maybe 15 minutes,

Zones 10, 9 - maybe 10 minutes max each

Zone 8 - we barely had time to make it from the TajMahal to the gangway when they were calling zone 7.

 

When we got of the ship around noon'ish, I think we were in the last 40% of the passengers left on the ship (based on how sparse the luggage was in the luggage claim area...)

 

If you are willing to self debark and get near the front of the line AND the ship gets in on time, you could easily be to the airport by noon.

 

If you don't want to be rushed, you could probably still plan on being to the airport by 2PM.

 

hb5

[brwnzfan32]

Thank you everyone for all your responses, it has helped alot. You guys are the best.