Ship vs. Local Time

[bradenday]

Western Caribbean cruise on the Conquest the week of May 5th.  Itinerary has us at port in the Caymans  from 11am-6pm.  I'm looking at a Stringray/Snorkel afternoon excursion from 12:30-4:30pm.  I'm not sure what Carnival is advertising and what the Excursion website is advertising is necessarily the same time zone/daylight savings time.  How do I confirm this?

[1025cruise]

Generally, ship time will be the same time as the port of embarkation. So you will need to know what time it is in the individual ports. With that said, always stay on ship time. You don't want to miss the ship because you were off by an hour.

[shof515]

The caymans island time has a one hour different with Florida time. the ship will mostly like stay on Florida time and will not adjust to island time 

[Cruisegirl70]

1 hour ago, shof515 said:

The caymans island time has a one hour different with Florida time. the ship will mostly like stay on Florida time and will not adjust to island time 

Is that an hour behind Florida time?

[bradenday]

That's due to Daylight Saving though, not time zones correct? 

So the the 12:30-4:30 would early be 1:30-5:30 ship time then?  Not going to work with a 6pm departure then.

[moondog73]

Email the vendor.  Most times they understand the whole ship time/ local time issue.  All vendors I have used have been excellent at communicating with me.

[crewsweeper]

Cayman Islands DOES NOT use daylight savings time.  Time zone is UTC-5.

So currently 1 hour earlier than Florida ports.  Same time as Mobile, NOLA and Galveston.

[mets123]

If the excursion is thru the ship, it will not be an issue.

[coevan]

if the excursion is private, it will not be an issue either

[DukeASUGirl]

7 hours ago, moondog73 said:

Email the vendor.  Most times they understand the whole ship time/ local time issue.  All vendors I have used have been excellent at communicating with me.

In fact, most of them know exactly when the cruise ships will be in town and actually adjust their times accordingly. So it's possible that the 12:30-4:30 you see is being given on ship time specifically because they are aware of the time difference and are aware what time your ship will be in port.

 

But you won't know unless you contact them. If it is in fact 1:30-5:30, then that won't work.

[coevan]

you are way over thinking this, the excursion companies know their time and ship time.   

[bradenday]

27 minutes ago, DukeASUGirl said:

In fact, most of them know exactly when the cruise ships will be in town and actually adjust their times accordingly. So it's possible that the 12:30-4:30 you see is being given on ship time specifically because they are aware of the time difference and are aware what time your ship will be in port.

 

But you won't know unless you contact them. If it is in fact 1:30-5:30, then that won't work.

I've attempted to reach out to the tour provider but its further complicated by the fact that the Cayman port authority is showing our ship in port 3-hours earlier (and leaving 3 hours earlier) than what my itinerary is advertising. They are confirming that their tour time works for me based on the port authority schedule but using what Carnival is advertising and the 1-hour difference it won't.  This is my first cruise so I don't know what source is more reliable of the two.  Any recommendations?  

[crewsweeper]

1 minute ago, coevan said:

you are way over thinking this, the excursion companies know their time and ship time.   

And if they are reputable and using local time they will tell you in advance.

[coevan]

Bradenday read my  post above this

Edited March 27, 2019 by coevan

[bradenday]

5 minutes ago, coevan said:

you are way over thinking this, the excursion companies know their time and ship time.   

Maybe but they want to book me on a morning excursion based on the port authority schedule.  Carnival says we won't be into port until 10am and I'll completely missed the tour.  So it seems a bit important.

 

[crewsweeper]

Here's the port schedule in Cayman Time  7:30- 15:00 on May 8th.

 

https://www.caymanport.com/ship-schedule-results/

 

But you are correct in that Carnival lists port times as 10:00 -18:00.