What time did you get to your hotel when booking an NCL Hawaii post stay?

[Conanc]

If you book a post stay with NCL, they transfer you from the pier to the hotel. Does anyone know approximately what time you arrive at your hotel? The NCL paperwork says: ship arrives at HNL at 7:00 a.m., bus to city, hotel Marriott 3:00 p.m. Is this fairly accurate?

 

Thank you!

[KeystoneCruiser]

We have done two NCL ships and had post stays in Honolulu booked through NCL. Both times we were the last "colors" to be called to get off the ship and so we did not disembark until 10:30 a.m. or so. You don't have to fight with everyone else to pick out your luggage, it automatically is transfered to the hotel. We never saw our luggage after we put it out the night before disembarkation until we got to the hotel.

 

But both times, the bus to the hotels were waiting for us at that time and we got on and were to our hotel by 11:30 - 11:45 a.m. (traffic in downtown Waikiki was horrible, glad I wasn't driving!)

 

The first time in 2002, our room at the Raddison was not yet ready, but they offered us a lounge area. We had a group of 4 rooms and one was ready, so we all just crashed there for a while and then went to get some lunch. By 2:00 p.m. when we returned our rooms were ready and our luggage was waiting for us in our rooms.

 

In 2004, our rooms were ready when we got there at 11:45 (different hotel) and our luggage was already in our rooms! (it must have came on a different bus!).

 

I highly reccommend booking your post cruise stay through NCL, it got us to the hotels quickly and with very little hassle! Gave us lots of time to explore Waikiki.