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Tweety63

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Due to an unavoidable and unexpected event, our family has a scheduling conflict. We have 10 family members booked on a Western cruise and now two can't make Ft. Lauderdale but could fly to Port au Prince/Labadee to meet the rest of us two days in. Anyone ever done this/have any experience here....Thank you in advance. Just trying to investigate our options.

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time4u2go

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I would call RCCL or whomever you booked with. How long is the cruise. If they are losing 2 days of a cruise out of 7, that won't leave many Ports and would have missed most of the cruise.

 

??? :confused:

Wouldn't there still be 5 days out of 7?

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Due to an unavoidable and unexpected event, our family has a scheduling conflict. We have 10 family members booked on a Western cruise and now two can't make Ft. Lauderdale but could fly to Port au Prince/Labadee to meet the rest of us two days in. Anyone ever done this/have any experience here....Thank you in advance. Just trying to investigate our options.

 

 

You say Port au Prince/Labadee as if they were in close proximity as opposed to nearly at opposite sides of the country. Even if RCI allowed it, there's no way I would ask anyone to traverse Haiti to join a cruise.

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cb at sea

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You can't get onto Labadee unless you come off the ship. It's not a city or port in the normal sense of the word. You will have to meet the ship at the next port. Labadee is a private beach day...do NOT consider it to be a normal port!

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SelfCheckoutGuy

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Cap-Haitien (CAP) is a much better choice for an airport, IF, BIG IF, they allow people to join from Labadee. That drive is an hour as compared to Port au Prince (6 hours). As others have mentioned Falmouth might be the option you have to chose. Labadee a guarded, cement walled, vacationer haven (sorry to put it so blunt)

 

 

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Merion_Mom

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Due to an unavoidable and unexpected event, our family has a scheduling conflict. We have 10 family members booked on a Western cruise and now two can't make Ft. Lauderdale but could fly to Port au Prince/Labadee to meet the rest of us two days in. Anyone ever done this/have any experience here....Thank you in advance. Just trying to investigate our options.

 

If I am seeing your posting history correctly, your cruise is not until December. Therefore you are well before final payment.

 

I would advise you and/or your family members to re-schedule to a different date.

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If I am seeing your posting history correctly, your cruise is not until December. Therefore you are well before final payment.

 

I would advise you and/or your family members to re-schedule to a different date.

 

+1, as was mentioned, even if allowed (doubtful) you don't want to join the ship there. If that conflict is important enough to miss the start of the cruise, just cancel.

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Desert Cruizers

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Carol & time4u2go I can certainly count. Obviously by the post two days in they would be in Labedee, so as myself & others said, they would need to call RCCL. I wouldn't know the ruling on this. Had this been a different itinerary, two days into a sailing they might be not going to a port but have a sea day so no way for them to meet up. That was what I was referring to.

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Langley Cruisers

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I am interested to hear what RCI says - I'm trusting that OP would probably want to phone someone higher up than a phone rep? We all know you can get various answers from different CSR's.

 

Think of the cost involved to get to Haiti (I don't think it will be the answer OP hopes for - I am expecting that they cannot meet the ship in Labadee). The next port is the day after that - Falmouth, Jamaica. I don't know... almost sounds like it isn't meant to be for these two family members.

 

Would the rest of the party still go?

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Here is the contact info:

 

 

Q: Can I take a partial cruise?

 

A: Yes! Partial cruises allow you to enjoy part of your cruise vacation in the event that you are unable to meet the ship in the scheduled boarding port, or would like to end your cruise earlier than the scheduled departure date.

 

Requests for security clearance concerning late boarding or early departure must be submitted in writing to the Guest Flight Operations office for consideration at least one week prior to sail date. Guests must have a confirmed reservation in order to receive clearance. If the reservation was made by a travel agency, the agency must submit the request on travel agency letterhead. Guests with reservations made directly through Royal Caribbean International or royalcaribbean.com can submit their own request. Please include a return fax number or e-mail address.

 

If guests are pre-approved for boarding/departure in an alternate port of call, the ship's security staff is notified to expect the guests at the designated port. The approved guests are responsible for making all travel arrangements and will incur any additional expenses (for flights, hotels, transfers to the pier, etc.). Prepaid gratuities will be added to all approved reservations for the length of cruise.

 

Restrictions: Certain countries, such as the U.S., Italy and Norway, have cabotage laws affecting passenger movements. These laws restrict foreign flag passenger vessels (such as those operated by Royal Caribbean) from transporting guests from one port to another port in the same country. In the U.S., the cabotage law applicable to the cruise industry is commonly called the Jones Act but is legally titled the Passengers Services Act. A brief summary of this U.S. law follows:

 

If a passenger (as listed on a vessel passenger manifest) embarks in a U.S. port and the vessel calls in a nearby foreign port (such as Ensenada, Grand Cayman and Nassau) and then returns to the U.S., the person must disembark in the same U.S. port. A passenger who embarks and disembarks in two different U.S. ports (such as Los Angeles and San Diego) would result in the carrier (not the violator) being fined. The vessel must call in a distant foreign port before the U.S. embarkation and disembarkation ports can differ. The nearest distant foreign ports are in or off the coast of South America. If either the passenger's embarkation port or disembarkation port is in a foreign country, then the provisions of this cabotage law do not apply. Nor do they apply in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

 

Similar passenger movement restrictions exist for cruise vessels calling in Italy and Norway.

 

Please direct any requests and/or questions to the following e-mail address or fax number:

Fax Number: (305) 373-6695

E-mail: AirSeaGFO@RCCL.com

 

Request Form

 

Royal Caribbean International maintains the right to deviate from any scheduled port of call without prior notice. Royal Caribbean International is not legally liable for any loss to guests caused by reason of the deviation. In addition, while Royal Caribbean International will attempt to follow our published schedules as closely as possible, they are not responsible if the published times at any ports of call cannot be adhered to. However, Royal Caribbean International will attempt to keep our guests informed of any changes.

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As others have said, you would have to contact RCI about this.

 

However I´m 99.9% sure you will be out of luck with this one. Over the years on CC there have been quite a few Reports about missing the ship and trying to join the ship at Labadee and I haven´t seen a single succesful one.

 

I think they would Need officials from Haiti over there as your Family members would leave the Country.

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Carol & time4u2go I can certainly count. Obviously by the post two days in they would be in Labedee, so as myself & others said, they would need to call RCCL. I wouldn't know the ruling on this. Had this been a different itinerary, two days into a sailing they might be not going to a port but have a sea day so no way for them to meet up. That was what I was referring to.
but that's not what you said, we are not mind readers....K.O.:(
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island lady "Live from...." Rare

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Probably best way to get to Labadee is to parachute in! The roads in Haiti are terrible or

non-existent.

 

Agree...I would much cancel the trip than drive overland in those mountains.

Not fun, and very dangerous. :eek:

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