Cruise Ship's Length of Stay in Ports

[WildcatRock]

My DW's brother and SIL are currently on a CCL cruise and shared their itinerary with us. They have several ports of call in which their ship doesn't depart until late evening. They were in San Juan yesterday and their ship wasn't scheduled to leave until 11 pm. On all of our Caribbean itineraries with NCL the latest we've ever stayed someplace is 6 pm.

 

Why does CCL stay later in ports than NCL? Which is more typical in the cruise industry - staying later like CCL or the late afternoon departure times for NCL?

 

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[margincall]

In San Juan they probably dont arrive til 3

Later this year im on an ncl cruise arrives San Juan 3

Leaves 10

[mpk218]

most ships pull out by dusk ( typical ) ;)

Take a look at when they pulled in to port ..

a lot of the time its a certain number of hours..

[Susie51]

In our experience, the boarding began later so we sailed away later.

[Sauer-kraut]

I believe the Venice sailaway is around 8:30 or so.

[WildcatRock]

They got into San Juan at 7 am and were scheduled to leave at 10 pm. They did have a lot of passengers leaving he ship and new passengers coming on, so maybe that's the reason.

 

No biggie as I always assumed the cruise lines came to and left their ports of call pretty much the same.

 

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