Seaside Sail Away Changed To 4:00??

[happy cruzin]

I'm hearing that "recently" MSC has changed the sail away time for the Seaside to 4:00 from 7:00. No change to the all aboard time - just the time of sail away.  Any recent Seaside cruisers that can confirm that it is now 4:00??

[vacationut]

I hope not. 

[JAGR]

It is 5:00 on Eastern itinerary and 7:00 on the Western itinerary (at least on March 2 and 9, 2019).

[cocksparra]

I sail Sat 26th still 7pm

[happy cruzin]

On 1/22/2019 at 12:06 PM, cocksparra said:

I sail Sat 26th still 7pm

 

On 1/22/2019 at 11:50 AM, JAGR said:

It is 5:00 on Eastern itinerary and 7:00 on the Western itinerary (at least on March 2 and 9, 2019).

FYI.....I'm told by TA - that with no real announcement because it doesn't change the all on board time - MSC has changed all of the departures from Miami to 4:00 pm. 

She also stated that they do not seem to be updating the documents or the website to show the change! 

[PTC DAWG]

Sailaway listed for 4/27 at 5 PM I believe..Eastern...I'll be on way before that.....

[JAGR]

42 minutes ago, happy cruzin said:

 

FYI.....I'm told by TA - that with no real announcement because it doesn't change the all on board time - MSC has changed all of the departures from Miami to 4:00 pm. 

She also stated that they do not seem to be updating the documents or the website to show the change! 

They better tell Port of Miami!  Port schedule shows 5:00 and 7:00 departures week after week. I don't care, since I'll be on board by 11:30 with Top Sail drink in hand!

[GOLDENBONNY]

We had 5 pm . 

[shugey]

I've sailed on the Seaside twice since September and both times they left at 5 p.m. However, both times it was the eastern itinerary. I just checked and the western itinerary is still 7 p.m.

 

Captain Marco Massa told me that the reason for the 7 p.m. departure was primarily to help European passengers who chose to fly to Miami on embarkation day a little extra time in getting to the port. Flights from Europe don't arrive until roughly 3 p.m.However, MSC evidently found that few if any of the Europeans took advantage of the later embarkation time. Apparently MSC didn't find many - if any - who waited until the day of departure to fly here- very smart!

 

The western itinerary leaves Miami two hours later at 7 - and I'm just theorizing here - because the first stop is in Jamaica and it doesn't take as long to get there as it does to reach San Juan, the first stop on the eastern itinerary.

 

 

[hbe]

I checked my revised E Ticket that I received today and it says departure at 7. Check in closes at 5.

[RNTOCRUISN]

Just back 1/12/19 to 1/19/19 western.  We sailed at 7pm

[sheffield]

Sailaway was 5pm on 1/19/19

[Epos Man]

8 hours ago, sheffield said:

Sailaway was 5pm on 1/19/19

 

which itinery though

[Essiesmom]

The Jan. 19 cruise is on the eastern route.  EM

[Epos Man]

its the 2nd half of a 14 day itinery the first week is still a 19.00 hrs depart

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