Check in sequence

[chloemonkey]

I am wondering how the order of checking in currently goes.....as in we are in the Haven but of course have to go through security.....so where in the sequence does the Covid testing take place?  Before the security? after but before being sent off to the Haven check in area?  Just curious as t how this all works now.....

 

[BirdTravels]

Depends on the port. Some ports testing is done before security.... So the sequence is (1) drop your bags with the porters (2) follow directions to testing (3) take a test (4) pass your test and get your arm band (5) get checked to enter the terminal (6) go through security (7) go through health screening (8) get pointed at Haven check-in (9) check in (10) be escorted aboard. 

[kochleffel]

8 hours ago, BirdTravels said:

Depends on the port. Some ports testing is done before security.... So the sequence is (1) drop your bags with the porters (2) follow directions to testing (3) take a test (4) pass your test and get your arm band (5) get checked to enter the terminal (6) go through security (7) go through health screening (8) get pointed at Haven check-in (9) check in (10) be escorted aboard. 

 

That was the sequence at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on October 24 (well, not the Haven part, for me). There, the testing is done in terminal 90 but you drop bags at terminal 88 and then return to terminal 88 for check-in. It's prudent to make whatever bag you keep with you to be light and easy to carry, possible a backpack or shoulder bag, not only because of walking between the two terminals, but also because of having to stand for a long time at almost every stage of the procedure.

[EDLOS]

1 hour ago, kochleffel said:

 

That was the sequence at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on October 24 (well, not the Haven part, for me). There, the testing is done in terminal 90 but you drop bags at terminal 88 and then return to terminal 88 for check-in. It's prudent to make whatever bag you keep with you to be light and easy to carry, possible a backpack or shoulder bag, not only because of walking between the two terminals, but also because of having to stand for a long time at almost every stage of the procedure.

Is there Wheelchair assistance for those that cannot walk distances required ??  between Terminals #88 to #90 to #88 ??

[kochleffel]

15 minutes ago, EDLOS said:

Is there Wheelchair assistance for those that cannot walk distances required ??  between Terminals #88 to #90 to #88 ??

 

I should think so, but I don't know how to arrange it.

[Sue Do-Over]

On a flight home from DC on Oct 10th, another passenger was describing his difficulty in NYC.

 

Per the elderly gentleman, who was travelling alone and required wheelchair assistance...

* He had taken a 4am flight from Dayton thru DC to LGA, landing at about the last time with a chance to make it to the port on time (if all went well... which it didn't).  Starting with a delay getting a wheelchair at the gate.

* The last transfer bus had gone, leaving him and 4 other guests 'stranded' at the airport for 30+ minutes while the bus came back to find them. 

* When the bus finally arrived at the port, he had to wait for a chair, and then for his chair-pusher to take him down the way for COVID testing before checking in.  (which seems consistent with the process order)... 

* BUT, the testing team was packing up, and grumbled about the late arrivals.  Pax was left in his chair while the pusher wandered around trying to figure out what to do.

* By the time the test was finally done, and the pusher located, and he got wheeled back to Terminal 88... the check-in desk had been closed.

 

He said he waited there for 2-3 hours while his bag was retrieved from the ship.  They never did let him board, (the other group was far enough ahead to make it), even tho the ship was there the whole time.   Of course, he had important medications in his checked bag (he carried it aboard the flight), and was distressed about that, too.

 

So, maybe for the time being, those needing wheelchair assistance consider the extra time to locate a pusher and back-and-forth to the testing center.  A power chair could have been a blessing or a curse.

 

I felt terrible for the guy... it was going to be midnight by the time we got back to Dayton, and he still had a drive home after being awake since long before dawn.

[Old & Retired]

If I was wheel chair bound I would never fly in the day of a cruise and would most certainly allow lots of extra time for my wheel chair related delay issues.