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JOHN 57

JOHN 57

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I am confused, please clear this up for me. I am reading that people are obtaining tender tickets for the tender to the Port. In this case, it would be from Conquest to Belize by tender. What is this all about, do you purchase tickets for the tender. Thank you, John

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I am confused, please clear this up for me. I am reading that people are obtaining tender tickets for the tender to the Port. In this case, it would be from Conquest to Belize by tender. What is this all about, do you purchase tickets for the tender. Thank you, John

 

No, the tickets are not for purchase. On some ships, they start congregating people in a common area shortly before tenders start and then give out tickets depending on if you have a ship sponsored excursion or not. Once the early excursion folks have left, then everyone else basically stands in line till a tender is available. If you don't have anything planned immediately, best bet is to hang back for an hour or so and wait for the masses to leave. Easy peasy from there on out!

 

Have fun!

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We tendered in Grand Cayman and I had waited 20 minutes at least and then gone down and just gotten in line like everyone else was doing .. went ashore, was online maybe an hour and shopped around, came back on the tender.. as I was reboarding .. the CD announced that if anyone else wanted to go ashore, no tender tickets were needed!! lmao. :eek:

 

Too funny .... everyone after 20 to 30 minutes was just going down and getting in line once the first few tenders left the ship. They were leaving from both sides of Conquest at first so it took care of the big crowd pretty fast. Probably 150 per tender and a couple had left. Id say 3 from both sides of the ship before I went down.

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I am confused, please clear this up for me. I am reading that people are obtaining tender tickets for the tender to the Port. In this case, it would be from Conquest to Belize by tender. What is this all about, do you purchase tickets for the tender. Thank you, John

 

The purchase of tender tickets is not be implemented until 3.0. ;-)

 

Bill

 

 

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KenMo

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This is our first VIP trip. I thought we got priority tenders as one of our perks. I am diving in Cayman and would like to get off early.

 

VIP or Platinum?

 

If Platinum, just go to the GS desk and someone will escort you down when you're ready.

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I've never known them to use tender tickets. I know people who have excursions booked through carnival were allowed off first, but that was it

 

They are not actually tickets. They are numbered stickers you put somewhere on your shirt. We see a lot of people on shore still wearing the stickers.

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I thought they were the same thing, this is our 10th cruise. I know we have priority embarkation.

 

Pax who book a suite have VIP embark and sometimes debark. They are simply VIP.

 

If you're Platinum, you'll get lots more than that. There's a list on Carnival's website.

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Rosefloater

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We dont bother the people at guest services. Just walk down to deck 0 showing our platinum cards and we are right off.

 

We do the same thing. We go down the stairs opposite of where the line is. We have never had a problem with the crew on deck 0.

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We tendered in Grand Cayman and I had waited 20 minutes at least and then gone down and just gotten in line like everyone else was doing .. went ashore, was online maybe an hour and shopped around, came back on the tender.. as I was reboarding .. the CD announced that if anyone else wanted to go ashore, no tender tickets were needed!! lmao. :eek:

 

Too funny .... everyone after 20 to 30 minutes was just going down and getting in line once the first few tenders left the ship. They were leaving from both sides of Conquest at first so it took care of the big crowd pretty fast. Probably 150 per tender and a couple had left. Id say 3 from both sides of the ship before I went down.

 

Sounds like our experience was different. Since you are more experienced cruiser than I, hopefully your experience is the norm and mine was abnormal. We were on Conquest in April. Not sure exactly when we did arrive in GC, but I think it was like 9:30 or 10:00 (which I believe was late, but I am not sure). We waited a while (maybe 45 minutes) after the announcements to get in line for tender tickets. Waited a while for our number to be called and then were told we had to go to another deck to wait for elevator (because DD was in a stroller). Had to wait quite a while for that and then wait more to get on the tender. It was almost 1 by the time we finally got off the tender. That was my second experience tendering. My first experience was in 2004, so I don't remember it, but I did not think it was as bad. It was DH's first experience so when he learned that we have to tender again this time, he was very disappointed.

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Sounds like our experience was different. Since you are more experienced cruiser than I, hopefully your experience is the norm and mine was abnormal. We were on Conquest in April. Not sure exactly when we did arrive in GC, but I think it was like 9:30 or 10:00 (which I believe was late, but I am not sure). We waited a while (maybe 45 minutes) after the announcements to get in line for tender tickets.

 

Get the tender number as soon as you can. Try to get there when they start handing them out. Don't wait almost 1 hour to get the number.

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I am not Platinum.

 

I tendered at Grand Cayman on the Inspiration and the process was super quick and easy. I literally walked out of my cabin at the designated start time, walked down to the tender line, and I was on the tender boat about 2-3 minutes later.

 

I was told that I had amazing luck and I should not count on being that fortunate when I attempt to tender in Belize, off of the Dream.

 

On the Dream last week, we got into the tender line at 5 minutes earlier than the first tender boat was scheduled to leave. We spent about a minute in line and were given a tender ticket with Zone 4. We waited for about 6-8 minutes in the Burgundy Lounge, at which time Zones 1 - 8 were all allowed to board the first tender boat. Couldn't have been much quicker or easier.

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