ma_t_gus Posted June 19, 2015 #1 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I checked the port schedule and there will be 3 ships on July 15. My ship is there from 8-4pm. Is Cayman a tender-only port? How bad (time) will it be tendering from the ships? Expected total amount of people from the 3 ships is over 11k. :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runner15km Posted June 19, 2015 #2 Share Posted June 19, 2015 They have many independent tenders that use two piers. Should be just a 10 minute ride to the ship. Lines will be longer when returning. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightOne Posted June 19, 2015 #3 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I checked the port schedule and there will be 3 ships on July 15. My ship is there from 8-4pm. Is Cayman a tender-only port? How bad (time) will it be tendering from the ships? Expected total amount of people from the 3 ships is over 11k. :eek: That is a light day. We had 6 ships and 17357 people when we were in Grand Cayman a few months back. Tendering was fine and only takes a few minutes as they are constantly running tenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted June 19, 2015 #4 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Not bad at all! Folks seem to think tendering is a long, laborious thing...but it's not, really! The actual ride is about 4-5 mins.....it can take about 15 mins. to fill the tender on the 1st ones headed to the island in the morning. After that, they come and go at about 15-20 min. intervals, whether they are full or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightOne Posted June 19, 2015 #5 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Not bad at all! Folks seem to think tendering is a long, laborious thing...but it's not, really! The actual ride is about 4-5 mins.....it can take about 15 mins. to fill the tender on the 1st ones headed to the island in the morning. After that, they come and go at about 15-20 min. intervals, whether they are full or not. I like the anticipation I feel as I am sitting on the tender waiting for it to fill up. The motor is idling and you are rocking a little bit. The whole process just reminds me that I am on vacation and getting ready to have some more fun! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCruisers Posted June 19, 2015 #6 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Only having three ships in port in Grand Cayman is a very light day. LuLu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma_t_gus Posted June 19, 2015 Author #7 Share Posted June 19, 2015 thanks everyone. We plan to do our own thing so I was kinda worried about docking there and waiting 1hr or so to get tendered off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsfuzzmo Posted June 23, 2015 #8 Share Posted June 23, 2015 The tender time will have more to do with your particular cruise line (how many tenders they have contracted to go back and forth), and how they release people onto the tenders (some will do tickets, some first come first served, some only let excursions off on first tenders). The number of ships may make a difference in the crowds on the island, but really have nothing to do with tender time. You are lucky.....you will be there on a very light day. 3 ships is nothing. There are 3 different tender docks, though, all close to each other. Remember which one your cruise line is using so you get back on the correct tender!!! Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma_t_gus Posted July 6, 2015 Author #9 Share Posted July 6, 2015 I'm on the Carnival, is it worth getting the FTTF just for the tendering. I'm part of a wedding group so we get to go in early during embarkation. I'm not in a rush to get off during debarkation. hehehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hfj17002 Posted July 6, 2015 #10 Share Posted July 6, 2015 I was in Cayman last week on the carnival freedom. I had FTTF, went down about 815am, & they told us that it was now open for general boarding. The estimated time for FTTF was up until 845am according to the letter we got the night before. There was no wait to tender, so I guess that's why it opened up to general. There were 3 ships total in port, 2 carnival & 1 RC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma_t_gus Posted July 7, 2015 Author #11 Share Posted July 7, 2015 There was no wait to tender, so I guess that's why it opened up to general. There were 3 ships total in port, 2 carnival & 1 RC. Sweet !!! thanks for the heads up. I didn't think the FTTF option was the right one for us this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monicajay Posted July 24, 2015 #12 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Ships arrival and departure times are usually staggered so they don't all arrive and leave at the same time. Some people panic about missing the last tender but in reality as long as you are in line on time you will get on the ship. They aren't going to leave a pile of people on an island because the official last tender time has past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznjuly Posted July 24, 2015 #13 Share Posted July 24, 2015 We were in GC 3 weeks ago with 3 ships in port. Getting TO GC wasn't the issue. We even have FTTF and didn't even need to use it! The real issue was getting back to the ship. That line was sooooo long!! Wrapped around the entire building and then into a parking lot. It took 45 minutes just to get on the tender. The other ships had a different line, so I don't think that was our problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mcatmcat Posted July 28, 2015 #14 Share Posted July 28, 2015 In my experience it was bad but I made the best of it. I was with royal and the the last tender time was 3 or 4 pm don't remember now and I was there 15 mins before. For my surprise the line was huge it even had like 2 turn because it was super long. I wasn't going to make that line under the sun so I seat in a bench waiting for the line to be short. At one points the line was not even moving so I guess there was not many tenders available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsfuzzmo Posted July 29, 2015 #15 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Ships arrival and departure times are usually staggered so they don't all arrive and leave at the same time. Some people panic about missing the last tender but in reality as long as you are in line on time you will get on the ship. They aren't going to leave a pile of people on an island because the official last tender time has past. Right. As long as you are there, they will get you back on the ship. We usually find a nice little watering hole to have a couple of cocktails at while we watch the line. Then when the line is down, we walk over and get on. We've been on the last tender many times, but we are always right there, and have never missed one yet. We like to spend as much time on the island as possible and so we do....even if it's right next to the tender pier at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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