What time do you board in Puerto Rico

[Tiggercat]

We are sailing on Summit in March out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. I noticed that it does not sail that first day until 8:30 pm, which is quite a bit later than when we sail out of Florida. What time do they let you board? We are staying at the Marriott the night before so I wondered if we should get a late checkout and just enjoy their property for the day and head over to the ship at about 4:00? We have late dining...8:30...do they change the time of this the first night or do you just miss the sail away when you have the late dining? Sorry for all of the questions!

[richstowe]

We arrived at noon and boarded within 10 minutes last March. It was great.:)

There was even a small liquor store that sold wine and champagne right after security.

Edited December 26, 2013 by richstowe

[fleckle]

We arrived at the pier around 1:30. The porters immediately tagged and took our checked bags.

 

We went right through security, checked in to pick up our seapass cards and boarded the ship with no lines or waiting at all. Boarding at that time, we were able to head directly to our cabins, which were already available.

 

[Lois R]

Boarding usually starts in the noon hour:):D;)...I have sailed from

San Juan several times over the years and love it!

Hope you have a wonderful cruise:)

 

Oh, yes, if you have late dining you would miss sailaway. I know one

year I sailed with friends and we ate in Normandie (the specialty

restaurant) on the first night. We booked a later time....9pm so

we did stay outside for sailaway and then went to dinner.

[CaribbeanBound]

We arrived at 1pm, waited in line about 30 minutes to drop off bags and boarded immediately after check-in.

[Ron_L]

We arrived at the port at 10:30 and were on board by 11:15. We skipped the MDR and ate from the buffet and sat outside at the Sunset Bar for sail away.

[Casanova02]

On december 14th, we arrived at the port at 11:30 and they had only 2 couples there... we did past the gate immediatly....

 

We went to the buffet which was open so all the bar... so we took a few drinks... :o

 

Then change and went to the swimming pool... with drinks... :o

 

All the cabin was ready by 13:30 so we took our luggages there... with drinks.... :o

 

We will do the same next year...

 

Happy New Year to all

[Max Circus]

Similar experience in April. We boarded around Noon. Only took about 10 minutes to get on the ship. Very easy. Hoping for the same in April 2014!!

[AlbertaCruisers]

This past Nov on the Summit we got to the port at about 10 and were on the ship and at the buffet around 11:00. We had to wait outside until boarding started but once it started we were through and on the ship in less than 10 minutes.

 

As for sail away, we had late dining too, the dining time is the same, you just miss sail away. The muster drill was at 7:45. You can choose to eat elsewhere if you want the first night, but sail away is in the dark anyway, so other than seeing the lights, you aren't really missing anything (just my opinion, other people love the late San Juan sail away!).