KAKcruiser Posted October 26, 2015 #26 Share Posted October 26, 2015 The crew is very well trained and helpful when assisting people onto the tenders. As long as the weather is reasonably good, you shouldn't have any trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAKcruiser Posted October 26, 2015 #27 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Labatsman or anyone else who might know - How did the Westerdam get to dock at Havensight? I thought they always went to Crown Bay and that is what the schedule shows. I am hoping we get lucky and dock at Havensight on our Westerdam cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherilyn70 Posted October 26, 2015 #28 Share Posted October 26, 2015 In curious about this now as well. I have never had to tender for St Thomas in any past cruises and my itinerary for the Thursday after this does not indicate a tender on the westerdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare richwmn Posted October 26, 2015 #29 Share Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) Havensight is the older of the cruise ship docks, it was around in the '70's. West Indian Company manages it. Crown Bay (Sub Base etc) was renovated a few years ago with Carnival Corp providing some funding along with a 10 year contract for HAL and Princess to primarily dock there. There is, howevetr, a slight problem - The Allure and The Oasis won't fit at Havensight so they have priority at Crown Bay According to both VI Now and WICO there are 6 ships calling on St Thomas on the 11th with only 5 berths for docking, 2 at Crown Bay and 3 at Havensight. That leaves Westerdam as Odd Man Out. If a more than one HAL or Princess ship calls on St Thomas when the Allure/Oasis does, the additional HAL/Princess ship will dock at Havensight unless it is full, in which case it will tender. Edited October 26, 2015 by richwmn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAKcruiser Posted October 26, 2015 #30 Share Posted October 26, 2015 But Labatsman's cruise only had 3 ships in port that day and the Westerdam went to Havensight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare richwmn Posted October 26, 2015 #31 Share Posted October 26, 2015 But Labatsman's cruise only had 3 ships in port that day and the Westerdam went to Havensight. The sequence I gave is what I was told several years ago. Operational considerations always have priority. According to WICO Westerdam was scheduled to dock at Crown Bay. There might have been a reason to move her to Havensight but it would not necessarily have been published. VI Now also shows that Westerdam was scheduled for Crown Bay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Exeter Posted October 26, 2015 #32 Share Posted October 26, 2015 But Labatsman's cruise only had 3 ships in port that day and the Westerdam went to Havensight. Sorry - We got got off this same cruise - Westerdam - departed 10/17/2015. We were at Crown Bay - the Emerald Princess was next to us. I'd love to be in Havensight - but this same cruise in April also docked at Crown Bay. Labatsman & her Mom & Sister may have been having too good a time to have noticed. Hugs to Terry!:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catl331 Posted October 26, 2015 #33 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Even if you dock how were you planning to get to St Johns. I took a HAL tour of the island and had to get on another small boat at the dock. Then one has to get off at St. Johns. What are you planning to do there? Not too much near the pier. Are you going to a resort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fouremco Posted October 27, 2015 #34 Share Posted October 27, 2015 The sequence I gave is what I was told several years ago. Operational considerations always have priority. According to WICO Westerdam was scheduled to dock at Crown Bay. There might have been a reason to move her to Havensight but it would not necessarily have been published. VI Now also shows that Westerdam was scheduled for Crown Bay A couple of years ago on the Noordam we were scheduled to dock at Crown Bay. DW planned our day accordingly. On the day of our arrival, we were redirected to Havensight. Never did find out the reason, beyond the fact that it was the harbour master's decision. Again, last month we were scheduled to dock in Charlottetown but ended up tendering. These things happen, just part of cruising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atocha Shipwreck Gal Posted October 27, 2015 Author #35 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Wow...I am the original poster and can't thank u enough for all ur responses and suggestions. That is why I love CC - everyone takes care of one another. Well I think u r all correct...we need to play it by ear and once onboard I will talk to someone in the know to see what their thoughts are as far as how easy it will be to tender. We go on tour boats all the time in Florida and have taken the ferry back & forth to St John....the issue for me with tendering is the though of having two boats bobbing. It would be different if you were getting on solid ground. The fact there is an elevator / lift down to the tender sounds great so there won't be a bunch of stairs. But if it is tendering we won't make it to St John on our own so am thinking about renting a car for the day in St Thomas. Have driven throughout the Caribbean so driving on the left on curvy roads is not a problem for me. If we docked at Havensight, car rental is there. But not knowing where we r coming in, I am not sure where to reserve. Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions? And if I can't get her off the ship, would hate to lose the money for the reservation. Does anyone know if passengers in wheelchairs are able to tender at St Thomas in the past? She is not in a wheelchair but I feel if someone in a wheelchair feels safe enough to tender, with me and 4 strong HAL guys, we can help her feel safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherilyn70 Posted October 27, 2015 #36 Share Posted October 27, 2015 So now that we've got all of that sorted out, where exactly is the north port the document refers to for my docking on the 4th next week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sail7seas Posted October 27, 2015 #37 Share Posted October 27, 2015 So now that we've got all of that sorted out, where exactly is the north port the document refers to for my docking on the 4th next week? Please let us know as soon as you find out. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare POA1 Posted October 27, 2015 #38 Share Posted October 27, 2015 So now that we've got all of that sorted out, where exactly is the north port the document refers to for my docking on the 4th next week? I'm pretty sure it's Crown Bay. That's the more northern of the docks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherilyn70 Posted October 27, 2015 #39 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Please let us know as soon as you find out. :) I'll definitely confirm on the 4th since I'll have data there. I also plan to sign up for the social media Internet package for the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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