B2b

[LynandBill]

Just booked our 1st back to back. We have the same cabin both cruises. Wondering what the procedure is between the 2 cruises. Thanks!

[LynandBill]

Just booked our 1st back to back. We have the same cabin both cruises. Wondering what the procedure is between the 2 cruises. Thanks!

 

Forgot to mention it's out of Ft Lauderdale.

[4774Papa]

X will issue you the new cabin key cards the night before the end of the first cruise. You keep the old cards from the first cruise.

 

Since you have the same cabin, you don't have to pack and have the room steward move your luggage.

 

You can go out and enjoy the port, using your new key cards when you come back to the ship.

 

We did a B2B on Infinity TA to Harwich, UK and switched cabins on the British Isles cruise. We went on an excursion to Cambridge that day and returned to our new cabin, our luggage was there, all cool.

 

I believe if you are doing a B2B and your first cruise ends in the USA after visiting overseas ports, you will have to check in with immigration, if you go ashore. (not sure if you have to go ashore in that event)

 

Also, you account for the first cruise will be closed out, so use all your OBC.

[cruisestitch]

You'll get your instructions on board.

 

You need to decide if you are going into town that day or just coming right back on board.

 

If not going into town, you'll meet with other consecutive cruisers that morning, be last off the ship, and then among the first back, going as a group, accompanied by a ship's officer who will give you instructions for how to get your new SeaPass card.

 

You will pass through Customs and Immigration before re=boarding.

Edited February 4, 2014 by cruisestitch

[kitty9]

Did a B2B on Solstice. We had two choices listed on the paperwork we received the last night of the first week---one, meet in a room at 9:30 and be escorted off the ship by a ship's officer to go through US Customs and Immigration (yes, you have to fill out a Customs form for both cruises and you don't get the exemptions like the $800 for purchases on your second cruise) and then be escorted back on the ship, OR, two, leave the ship whenever you want before 10 am taking your passport or birth certificate with you, along with your Customs declaration, and then do your thing in Ft Lauderdale for the day. If you do your own thing, you won't be allowed to reboard until after 12 noon.

[Northern Aurora]

Since we live in the middle of Alaska and thus fly to every cruise port we tend to do B2B cruises as it seems a better use of air fare. And I don't think we have ever had the exact same procedure twice. For example, I don't ever remember receiving the new sea pass card the night before the last day of the first leg. But you will receive a succinct letter of instructions the same time those disembarking will receive their disembarkation packet. Once you receive that letter the procedure will be clear.

 

We have done a turnaround day in Ft. Lauderdale. There were only about twelve of us doing the B2B, and we were instructed to meet in a specific room, and bring our passports. There we received our transit passes and new sea pass cards. We were taken out in a group and lead to customs (past waiting folks who were disembarking); once we had all completed customs those who wanted to go to Ft. Lauderdale for the day left, and those of us remaining were lead, past new passengers waiting to board, back to have our new sea pass photos take.

[5Stringer]

We just did our first B2B on the Silhouette in FLL. There was an excursion offer for the turnaround day to go to Sawgrass Mall, but we chose to stay on board.

All the B2B's met in the MDR at 10:15 with passports and we were the led off the ship where a Customs Officer checked out passports (and DIDN'T take the customs forms we were asked to fill out) and twenty minutes later we were back on the ship. Of course the rooms were still not accessable so we went to the pool and pretty much had it to ourselves until regular boarding started. The pool bar opened at 11:00 and the Oceanview Cafe by 11:30.

All in all, pretty seamless I thought.

[Spring Drifter]

I'm planning on taking a B2B but booking 2 different classes of rooms. Can anyone tell me how the move is handled from one room to the other.

[WestLakeGirl]

Coordinate with the two room stewards. Hey will tell you the best way to accomplish it

[4774Papa]

I'm planning on taking a B2B but booking 2 different classes of rooms. Can anyone tell me how the move is handled from one room to the other.

If you are on an excursion, you pack your luggage, tell the room steward in advance (a tip is advisable) and when you come back from shore, you go to our new cabin where you find your luggage.

 

If you stay on the ship, from what people are saying on this post an officer escorts you to your new cabin. I think you can get one of those carts where you can hang your clothes and move luggage with the help of the room steward.