Haven- What Time Can We Board the Escape in New York Tomorrow

[ohiocruisemom]

Thanks ahead of time for answering this! We are staying in the city tonight and want to be on the ship early tomorrow.  What is the earliest NCL typically allows Haven guests on the Escape?

[Sauer-kraut]

Probably around 11:30 ish

[Coastalbreezes]

Two weeks ago Haven boarded around 11:00.

[BirdTravels]

18 hours ago, ohiocruisemom said:

Thanks ahead of time for answering this! We are staying in the city tonight and want to be on the ship early tomorrow.  What is the earliest NCL typically allows Haven guests on the Escape?

Before 11:00. Like in 30 minutes from now. 

[Sea saw 56]

We normally stay within a half hour of the port, we head over from our hotel between 10:00 & 10:30.

By 11:30 we are usually seated in the restaurant for lunch, toasting our vacay with our first drink.

[tomk3212]

We have sailed numerous times from NYC and in our experience we've seen the Haven pax start boarding between 11-1130.  I've read here from some Haven pax that it can be as early as 1045.  However it all depends on whether the ship docked late (it DOES happens) or when the last guest from the previous cruise leaves the ship; they can't board ANY new pax (Haven or otherwise) until the last guest from the previous cruise has left.

 

Hope you have a great cruise!

[dexddd]

So what time did you board?

 

We were lucky last time to get on at 10:50 with last of prior guests off at 10:15.

Usually 11-11:30 is a normal range.

Edited September 15, 2019 by dexddd

[erdoran]

Interested because I have a 3 pm sailing, which means all aboard by 1 pm which seems really rushed to me if boarding begins 11:30....

[HuliHuli]

Our experiences at Manhattan have been to arrive no earlier than 9:30 a.m. at the port as security does not open until then or later.  Boarding around 11:00 a.m. is a good possibility; certainly by 11:30 a.m.