12:00 and not onboard

[SMSACE6]

Carnival needs to stop having the polite Brita, Aussies and Canadians make the last call , get off the ship announcements and let a New Yorker let it rip " I said ,GETOFFMYFREAKINGBOAT!"

 

:confused::confused::confused: What????

 

I am Canadian, and am in the crowd that want off asap so I can make it to the airport in time for my flight home.

 

Just not sure what you are meaning by this:confused:

 

OP, I appreciate your starting this thread, your original post, and see it as only a FYI, as to what can and does happen, and boarding times do not necessarily mean you are going to be on board at a given time. Sorry for the flames you got, but your info is appreciated all the same by others.

Edited May 7, 2016 by SMSACE6

[djhsolara]

:confused::confused::confused: What????

 

I am Canadian, and am in the crowd that want off asap so I can make it to the airport in time for my flight home.

 

Just not sure what you are meaning by this:confused:

 

OP, I appreciate your starting this thread, your original post, and see it as only a FYI, as to what can and does happen, and boarding times do not necessarily mean you are going to be on board at a given time. Sorry for the flames you got, but your info is appreciated all the same by others.

 

 

Thanks!!

[usd2bmd]

Going on a cruise and complaining about the small stuff already.

Good times :eek:

 

For once I am happy I am NOT on a cruise.

[usd2bmd]

Naw, We change the things we can and don't get our panties in a wad when things happen that we can't change.

We don't have millennial sense of entitlement just because we're "Platinum" status and have to board the ship 30 minutes later.

 

My Platinum card and $2.50 still gets me the same speciality coffee as your Gold card.

 

I think I love you....

[First and Ten]

Everyone has different expectations. Everyone has different opinions. That does not mean that one is right and one is wrong. What it does mean is that people should not condemn other people for those opinions.

 

All I said was that I followed instructions provided to me by the cruise line and they did not live up to their end of the deal at that point. They set the expectation by telling me when to arrive to get onto the ship. Had they communicated to me throughout the process, perhaps I wouldn't have been as upset.

 

Once onboard, we discovered that this delay was caused by the first person who needed to be present to start the debarkation process refusing to show up. At that point, there should have been an email sent to inform guests that there would be a delay. In our case, we still would have shown up at the terminal at the same time because we had hired transportation that could not be changed, but at least we would have known that we would be waiting, rather than the situation that occurred with no communication.

 

Being fair....did they arrive back into port late? was there a reason those 600 people were still on board at 11 am? You probably got the email a few weeks prior to your cruise that you should show up at 10:30. Lets say the ship ran into an issue and got to port late, is your expectation really that you should be allowed to board even if people are still trying to disembark, due to the fact you have an email???? So you got on the ship at noon instead of 10:30 and that is a problem? To this day it boggles my mind that people post over and over how crowded the terminals will be on embarkation day and all the recommendations that you arrive after 1 pm, yet 90% of the people will line up at 10am and complain about the crowds

Edited May 11, 2016 by First and Ten

[dmdiver]

We had a 10:30 checkin time on our last cruise out of Galveston. I know we didn't get on the ship right away. This was our first time as Platinum and we did get to go right into the terminal along with our FTTF friends. We had the priority lounge, but our FTTF friends had a different waiting area. I honestly don't remember what time we actually got to board - I'm always so excited I don't even think to look.

 

As much as the cruise lines try to get everyone off & on in a timely manner, I think it's still pretty much like herding cats.

[brepri_h]

It happened on my last cruise too. There was a medical emergency and they were 90 minutes late getting back to port.

[First and Ten]

It happened on my last cruise too. There was a medical emergency and they were 90 minutes late getting back to port.

 

Could you imagine the outrage!!!! How dare a medical emergency delay someone trying to embark!!!! The email saying to show up at 10:30 trumps everything else and that medical emergency should have to wait :rolleyes:

Edited May 11, 2016 by First and Ten

[Sweet Dutch Girl]

I discovered, long ago, that one of the hardest things in life is "waiting". Doesn't matter if its a grocery check-out line, morning rush hour, embarking or debarking a cruise, the long line at airport security. It seems that we are programmed by nature to "get a move on" and when this process is interrupted our coping devices want to take a hike.

 

I've learned, often the hard way, that everything rolls down hill if I allow the stress of "waiting" to cloud my enjoyment level. Through experience I've learned that we really don't have much control outside of our own reactions. Trying to find and place blame if things go haywire accomplishes what exactly? Moaning and complaining and getting mad and upset only drives our own sanity level to the breaking point.

 

Sh*t happens and being aware of that fact may make things easier. On a cruise vacation board later, book later flights, schedule a day off from work after the vacation in case things don't go as planned. If traveling with small children or adults needing assistance wait to get to the terminal don't think arriving early will make things easier...a "free" lunch isn't worth the hassle.

[First and Ten]

sh*t happens and being aware of that fact may make things easier. On a cruise vacation board later, book later flights, schedule a day off from work after the vacation in case things don't go as planned. If traveling with small children or adults needing assistance wait to get to the terminal don't think arriving early will make things easier...a "free" lunch isn't worth the hassle.

 

nailed it!!!!

Edited May 11, 2016 by First and Ten

[KevInPitt]

Sh*t happens and being aware of that fact may make things easier. On a cruise vacation board later, book later flights, schedule a day off from work after the vacation in case things don't go as planned. If traveling with small children or adults needing assistance wait to get to the terminal don't think arriving early will make things easier...a "free" lunch isn't worth the hassle.

 

Careful... even using quotes around free will still bring on the wrath of a certain group of individuals who will berate you for any inference that lunch should be forgone as a result of any controllable or uncontrollable boarding delay. If it isn't afforded, one should get compensated. ;)

[JWGrayson]

We were just on B2B cruises out of Port Canaveral. It wasn't the standard B2B as we changed ships and had a day in between.

 

So, we had embarkation twice within 6 days. We stayed at a hotel that provided Stay/Park/Cruise package with a shuttle to and from the ship. The first week we were on the Sunshine for 5 days. We were scheduled for an 11:15 AM shuttle. We walked down to the waiting area around 11:05 and we were in our cabin by 11:40. It was probably the easiest embarkation ever! There were only 12 Diamonds booked and 100, or so, Platinums.

 

The next cruise was a 7 day Western Carib, on the Magic. Since the Magic had recently moved to PC, there were a lot of seasoned cruises on boards to check her out. I believe they said that there were over 70 Diamonds and 350+ Platinums. Management realized that Priority Boarding was not working, so they took a group of us over to the regular lines and cut in front of those waiting to check us in. When boarding was announced, they collected the Diamond passenger and escorted us on first. Embarkation was a lot more chaotic then the week before, but we were still on board before noon. It at least showed that they were trying. John

Edited May 11, 2016 by JWGrayson

[Pyrate13]

I don't quite get how Carnival was supposed to know that this person that needed to start the debarkation was going to continue to refuse to show up? How could they email the new passengers to let them know what they didn't know themselves? Personally, I don't check my phone for emails very often so even if one were sent I probably would not see it. I'm on vacation, there's not much that going to come to me in an email that I would even change anything for anyway so why read them. I suspect others are the same way.

 

I also don't understand what difference it would make if you were going to show up at the same time anyway, waiting is waiting. Knowing the reason doesn't make it any less of a wait and you can't change the situation so why fret? But, that's just me and my opinion, you're entitled to your own. If it bothered you, it bothered you.

[poobears]

I think the point is they could have communicated to everyone waiting to get on the ship that there is a delay on board and they don't know how long it is going to be before they remove the passengers. Just be honest and up front instead of ignoring the situation for 3 hours letting the upset soon to be cruisers get more and more irate. Communication, even if it's not what they wanted to hear goes a long ways to calm to the situation down. People that feel like they are being kept in the loop tend to stay calmer than those that feel like they are being ignored.

 

Then Carnival should ban the arse that refused to disembark for a set amount of time as punishment for being an arse because no one wants an arse on their cruise or the cruise before them :p

Edited May 11, 2016 by poobears

[HectorAchilleus]

Over 10% of passengers does not equate to priority...at least in my world.

 

Plus there are many priority people who do not show up at 11:00, either because they bought it for GS, Tendering, etc. We always show up between 12:30-1:30. So that many waiting might be as few as one-half of the priority.

 

We were on a Journey's cruise that had over 500 Plats and they were still selling FTTF a week before the cruise. Who knows how many they had already sold. Does not seem like priority to me either.

[brepri_h]

Could you imagine the outrage!!!! How dare a medical emergency delay someone trying to embark!!!! The email saying to show up at 10:30 trumps everything else and that medical emergency should have to wait :rolleyes:

 

LOL I know right?

[djhsolara]

I think the point is they could have communicated to everyone waiting to get on the ship that there is a delay on board and they don't know how long it is going to be before they remove the passengers. Just be honest and up front instead of ignoring the situation for 3 hours letting the upset soon to be cruisers get more and more irate. Communication, even if it's not what they wanted to hear goes a long ways to calm to the situation down. People that feel like they are being kept in the loop tend to stay calmer than those that feel like they are being ignored.

 

 

 

Then Carnival should ban the arse that refused to disembark for a set amount of time as punishment for being an arse because no one wants an arse on their cruise or the cruise before them :p

 

 

That's really all I said. Had we been told when we arrived that there was a problem and we wouldn't be boarding until 1:30 at least we would have known.

 

To the person that said we were boarding at noon, apparently you didn't read all the posts. It ended up being a 3-hour wait.

[Jimmy Geegitz]

When we Sailed Sunshine last week we had priority boarding and didn't board til 1 pm. Seems like they are boarding later. As it should be really. I think it's ridiculous to think they can debark and refresh and get people back on by 11...1 pm is fine.

[JWGrayson]

When we Sailed Sunshine last week we had priority boarding and didn't board til 1 pm. Seems like they are boarding later. As it should be really. I think it's ridiculous to think they can debark and refresh and get people back on by 11...1 pm is fine.

 

If that was the Journeys cruise to St. Lucia, they would have likely had a lot of VIPs boarding.

[Bob NC]

 

To the person that said we were boarding at noon, apparently you didn't read all the posts. It ended up being a 3-hour wait.

 

I noticed that.

 

But folks feel they can berate you better if they make up a few facts.

[First and Ten]

That's really all I said. Had we been told when we arrived that there was a problem and we wouldn't be boarding until 1:30 at least we would have known.

 

To the person that said we were boarding at noon, apparently you didn't read all the posts. It ended up being a 3-hour wait.

 

But how could they possibly know it would take 3 hrs? Whatever the issue was, maybe they thought it was a non issue at first. In your original post, you seem to have more of an issue with the amount of cruisers that had priority boarding status than you seem to have with the delay

Edited May 12, 2016 by First and Ten

[Pops, Esq.]

You know who wants you on that ship as soon as possible? CARNIVAL. Why? Because you can't start spending money on board until you are actually on board. So, whatever the delay, holdup, slow down, or whatever you want to call it, you can have faith that Carnival is doing everything they can to get you on that boat as quickly as possible.

 

Not bashing Carnival. Just pointing out they are on your side on this one.