Port Canaveral C&A question

[Bubbis3]

Does anyone know if C&A members have a seperate line you can check in at Port Canaveral? I know they do if you are in a suite but I'm not sure if C&A members also have one. If they do, do you have to be at a certain C&A membership level to use it?

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

Carnival Festivale - 2/1983

Adventure of the Seas - 2/2004

Enchantment of the Seas - 2/2006

Radiance of the Seas - 2/2008

Monarch of the Seas - 4/2010

Freedom of the Seas - 9/2011

[Retired LEO]

I believe it's Platinum and above.

[WNcruiser]

Last time we cruised from PC there was one line for Platinum/Diamond/Diamond + and suites.

 

There is a RCI rep standing at the top of the escalator after you go through security. The "express" lanes are to the right.

[franl24fan]

There is a sign pointing to a priority line for Diamond and Diamond Plus, however, the staff (contractors not RCL employees) usually do not open it up and will try to put you in to the one line for all. I've cruised here many times, and each time I have to be obnoxious to get them to open up the priority line, and to send me to the check in clerks ahead of the regular line. They also try to divert you away from the designated seating area for the early boarding. The terminal is poorly managed overall, I've seen them start boarding the regular group from one end before allowing the suites or the priority boarding from the other end. I've complained to RCL home office with no results. It's not that I am a snob, or trying to be a *itch, but this is a perk I am supposed to have and if you don't insist on it the perk will go away.

 

In Ft Lauderdale the terminal is so large no one has to wait, but I still try to use the priority line for the same reason.

 

So if you go to Port Canaveral and are in a priority category, be prepared to be frustrated and just go with the flow. Not worth starting your vacation in a bad mood. But do complain to RCL, maybe eventually they'll change contractors.

[SECdawg]

We have always breezed right through the priority check in at Port Canaveral. They look at our set sail and take us right to the front of the line if they are using that side for regular boarding as well. If the ship is not ready to be boarded we sit in a roped off area and are allowed on before other passengers. Our last time on Freedom they even had a seperate security scannner open just for Diamond/Diamond plus and suites and we breezed through that.

[mamacat3]

There is a sign pointing to a priority line for Diamond and Diamond Plus, however, the staff (contractors not RCL employees) usually do not open it up and will try to put you in to the one line for all. I've cruised here many times, and each time I have to be obnoxious to get them to open up the priority line, and to send me to the check in clerks ahead of the regular line. They also try to divert you away from the designated seating area for the early boarding. The terminal is poorly managed overall, I've seen them start boarding the regular group from one end before allowing the suites or the priority boarding from the other end. I've complained to RCL home office with no results. It's not that I am a snob, or trying to be a *itch, but this is a perk I am supposed to have and if you don't insist on it the perk will go away.

 

In Ft Lauderdale the terminal is so large no one has to wait, but I still try to use the priority line for the same reason.

 

So if you go to Port Canaveral and are in a priority category, be prepared to be frustrated and just go with the flow. Not worth starting your vacation in a bad mood. But do complain to RCL, maybe eventually they'll change contractors.

 

So sorry you have been disappointed at PC. Each time we sail PC we are amazed at the professionalism and courtesy of the staff there. All we've ever had to do is show our set sail pass with status or room category and into the line we've gone. I hope your future sailings out of PC are more pleasant.

[Scotty G]

When we cruised in May on Freedom there was a new line going into security in the middle of the terminal after you cross the street from the parking lot. This was new since our April Monarch cruise. I believe it is for Diamond and up. It had its own xray and screening before you go to the upper deck for processing. Once upstairs there is a priority line on each side of the processing area for C&A. I don't recall what level it starts at. Hopefully someone else who has been recently will recall that. There is no guarantee as to how it is now as procedures at PC change very often. They have to keep us guessing ;)

[Merion_Mom]

When we cruised in May on Freedom there was a new line going into security in the middle of the terminal after you cross the street from the parking lot. This was new since our April Monarch cruise. I believe it is for Diamond and up. It had its own xray and screening before you go to the upper deck for processing. Once upstairs there is a priority line on each side of the processing area for C&A. I don't recall what level it starts at. Hopefully someone else who has been recently will recall that. There is no guarantee as to how it is now as procedures at PC change very often. They have to keep us guessing ;)

 

Cool. I'm sailing out of Port Canaveral in December for the first time since December 2008, when *I* took the Mariner from Florida to California. :D

[LizC]

Cool. I'm sailing out of Port Canaveral in December for the first time since December 2008, when *I* took the Mariner from Florida to California. :D

 

What day I'm sailing the 11th!

[kc320]

I just sailed out of PC a couple weeks ago & the employees could not have been nicer...I was one of the 1st thru security & once up the escalator there was a lady handing out the sickness forms & checking Set Sail passes..as D+ I was directed to a seating area in the middle as the check in desks were not open yet...a few minutes later the desks were opened & our section was directed to form a line...after check in we had a seat in a roped in area to the right..at one point they began checking seapass cards as the area was filling up with people other than Priority..Once Boarding began at 11:30 we were escorted to the gangway area...the whole process was smooth & quick