B2B Guest Information Sheet & FAQs: How the Turnaround Day Works

[FunInTheSun9]

For anyone interested in how a turnaround day works for B2B cruisers, here is the Information Sheet/FAQs that Celebrity provided to us on our recent B2B Alaska sailing on the Millennium in May 2016. The process is straightforward and convenient. In net: You either walk off (they will take your old seapass and give you a new one) and right back onto the ship at 9:15am, or you can leave by 9:15am (again, they'll swap your seapass) and return to the ship anytime after embarkation begins. You will skip the security process using a transit pass they will provide to you. If you are switching rooms, you pack all items EXCEPT those on hangers and they will move your bags and hung garments for you (they use a hotel-type dolly). You leave everything in your room, no bags go out the night before. Doesn't get any easier than that!

 

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[WestLakeGirl]

In non US ports the procedure is usually a bit different, New SeaPass cards are often given out the night before and passengers aren't required to leave the ship

[jelayne]

B2B procedures vary by where you are. We have gotten sea pass cards the day before and never had to leave the ship. Other times we have had to exit the ship and can immediately reboard the ship and in other ports we have had to leave the ship and couldn't return for a couple of hours.

[Corgis mom]

Last year on a Bermuda Summit cruise, we had to get off the ship, got a new sea pass, and walk to the front of the terminal, a long walk, show our passports, go through immigrations and walk back. If you are mobility impaired, get a wheel chair.

[QShip]

We are on an Alaska B2B in August. We want to take an early excursion in Seward (8:30). Will this cause problems with the cabin change? Can we just pack our items and rely upon the stewards to move them to our new cabin without being present and just go to our new cabin when we return in the late afternoon?

[jelayne]

On a New Zealand/Australia Cel Britt staff didn't move move clothes; there were over 1000 B2B folks no way Ithe cabin stewards could move that many folks and have cabins ready.

 

We got sea pass cards the day b fore the n most of our B2Bs

[Happy Cruiser 6143]

B2B procedures vary by ship and by where the ship is. You will receive instructions which are specific to your ship and your sailing.

[mahdnc]

Gee, you still have to attend the lifeboat drill!

 

And, I didn't know there was such a thing as a makeup lifeboat drill.

[alcpa1]

Qship,

You may indeed have a problem. The steward will probably move your belongings but you might want to be there to make sure everything was moved. Don't forget that you will have to empty the safe. The steward will not do that.

As others have noted b2b plans vary by port and ship. On a Caribbean Summit b2b in 2015 those with excursions or on shore plans were handled separately and those who simply wished to stay onboard were gathered in a lounge and passed through a reissue station there. We were still restricted to the public areas of the ship but lunch was provided in the MDR.

And yes, not only do you have to attend the muster drill gain and again but the make up has been around since before the turn of the century.

[fleckle]

Furthermore, even for the same ship at the same port the turnaround day procedures can vary considerably from one turnaround day to another, as we found out last year when we did 2 turnarounds back-to-back.

 

The instructions you receive may be very different from the turnaround day instructions somebody else received for another cruise,

or they may even be different from the instructions that you yourself received the last time.

 

Circumstances change, and/or different people may be in change of the procedures this time and want to do things differently.

 

All you need to do is follow the instructions that you are given and go with the flow.

 

 

As for the safe, it is a good idea to contact the stateroom attendant (or butler) of your new stateroom a day or two in advance to introduce yourself and make arrangements for transferring the contents of your safe early in the morning on the turnaround day.

That way there is no need to worry about your valuables, or be stuck having to carry them around with you while waiting for your new stateroom to be ready.

 

 

If you are going off on an excursion and the stateroom attendant will be moving your belongings for you, it is best to pack up everything that is not on hangers so there are no small, loose items to be moved, and also to leave everything that needs to be moved all together in one place.

That makes it unlikely that anything will be overlooked and left behind.

 

 

As far as we know, whenever the stateroom attendants moved our belongings for us, nothing was ever missing.

 

(Or if there was anything missing, we never noticed, so it must have been something that we really didn't care about and didn't need.) :D

 

 

QShip, if you are planning to do a Kenai Fjords excursion from Seward, do not under any circumstances miss it just because you are changing cabins. That is one of the best Alaska excursions of all, especially if you are a wildlife enthusiast!

 

 

[caribill]

If you are switching rooms, you pack all items EXCEPT those on hangers and they will move your bags and hung garments for you (they use a hotel-type dolly). You leave everything in your room, no bags go out the night before. Doesn't get any easier than that!

 

 

 

If you are switching cabins on a B2B you still have to vacate by 9 and are unable to go to your new cabin for 4 hours?

 

And if you are not touring that day, you just wander around the ship those hours?

[caribill]

For anyone interested in how a turnaround day works for B2B cruisers, here is the Information Sheet/FAQs that Celebrity provided to us on our recent B2B Alaska sailing on the Millennium in May 2016.

 

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Interest that the sheet says in part:

lf you would like to use a different credit card, please visit the Guest Relations desk after we set sail in Honolulu.

 

 

How many days did it take the ship to get to Honolulu?