Port Times on Carnival

[Winesome]

First time on Carnival, I am wondering about times in Port.....Does the ship not change its clock? I keep seeing port times & ship times

[serene56]

Depends on where you are going

what ship are you sailing - and what month

 

I have yet to sail a carnival ship that changed time to reflect island time

 

 

what you see in your intinerary is the hours.

if your ship is sailing from FL you stay on ship time-- some of those islands are one hour ahead of Miami time

wear a watch

 

We are on SPlendor for February 8th

will report back so watch for me after the 15th

Edited January 15, 2015 by serene56

[Namelocg]

Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. If the ships time and the port time are NOT the same make sure you stay on ships time and DO NOT use electronic devices (phone, iPad, ect) to track the time because they will automatically adjust themselves to port time.

[Winesome]

Okay Please report back, I am on same cruise, just March 22nd

 

Depends on where you are going

what ship are you sailing - and what month

 

I have yet to sail a carnival ship that changed time to reflect island time

 

 

what you see in your intinerary is the hours.

if your ship is sailing from FL you stay on ship time-- some of those islands are one hour ahead of Miami time

wear a watch

 

We are on SPlendor for February 8th

will report back so watch for me after the 15th

[A2Mich]

We've had to change times on every Carnival cruise we've been on

 

 

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[mistycruiser]

We've rarely had time changes on our 20 cruises on Carnival. Usually it stays with whatever time the embarkation port time was. In Alaska and South America we had time changes but that's the only instances I remember.

[kona_wahine]

We have only left from Florida ports and have always stayed on florida time.

[k2excursion]

15 cruises, and we have never changed ship time to match port time. On my last cruise, we started in a different port (and different time zone) than we ended, so we did end up going back 1 hour. And on another cruise, it was during the daylight savings switch, so we went back 1 hour on that night, which oddly put us an hour behind 2 of our ports. If we waited to switch, we would have been equal to those ports. I had a cruise where all 4 ports had a different time than ship time, and 2 ports were 2 hours behind us, and we still never changed times. So basically, it's very rare for Carnival to change times just to match the port times, but it does happen sometimes.

 

Whatever ship time is, that is when you need to be back to port. But sometimes, when planning independent excursions (not through the ship), you must know what the port time is and make the adjustment. The ferries & the times for things on the islands will not adjust to your ship's time.