Order of disembarking

[3rdGenCunarder]

Cunard has stopped the priority disembarkation lounge, which was a nice quiet way to end a voyage. So what's the procedure now? Deck by deck or QG, PG, Club...?

[TouchstoneFeste]

We were QG, and disembarked first (after the fast track folks), at 8am, in Southampton. I assume the others were as you suggested. Went directly from our stateroom to the Grand Lobby.

[exlondoner]

I think you wait quietly in your cabin till summoned. Very peaceful. I believe it's deck by deck after the Grills.

[Bell Boy]

 A letter is delivered to all staterooms  where the guest indicates their  suggested disembarkation  time (by ticking a box)

You remain in your stateroom and proceed to the Gangway at the time of your choice. No more clambering over other folks hand luggage and trying to find a seat in a dedicated lounge .

One of the best new procedures introduced post pandemic. 

 

 

[Camgirl]

In March we were not given any choice of disembarkation time. It worked exactly as before the pandemic, each having coloured luggage labels dependant on grills, WC status and deck. There was a time issued for each to depart. We are diamond and were off pretty early. The only difference was that we left from our cabin. In our case we had breakfast, returned to cabin for carry on bags, then disembarked the ship. There were no announcements.

 

People in the quarantine cabins left last. Sometime after everyone else.

[ovccruiser]

As usual, you will receive your luggage tags for disembarkation, but if you are priority as in diamond or platinum, you must listen for announcements. In March out luggage label was called, we missed it and waited in our cabin. We were on level 1 but are diamond members. we could have gotten off the ship much sooner than we did. As it happened all was ok as out lift home was late in arriving 😄

[Se1lad]

On the eastbound TA which finished 8th May, you could get off between 7 and 8am if you carried your own bags and pre booked.  Queens grill disembarked at 8am.

 

Main restaurants were open 6.30 - 8am for breakfast, and I think Kings Court was open until 9am.

[TouchstoneFeste]

On 5/10/2022 at 6:07 AM, Camgirl said:

In March we were not given any choice of disembarkation time. It worked exactly as before the pandemic, each having coloured luggage labels dependant on grills, WC status and deck. There was a time issued for each to depart. We are diamond and were off pretty early. The only difference was that we left from our cabin. In our case we had breakfast, returned to cabin for carry on bags, then disembarked the ship. There were no announcements.

 

People in the quarantine cabins left last. Sometime after everyone else.

Our experience on May 8 was as @Camgirl described it. We were issued a time a couple of days before arrival, although I bet we could have requested a change if we'd wanted.

[CABINET]

This sounds a real improvement, in my opinion anyway.  Being able to stay in the cabin until it is our time to disembark sounds perfect.

 

However I always assumed that we were evicted early to allow the staff time to service the rooms before new passengers board.   

 

Presumably the trade off for this is that cabins might not be ready when the first passengers start to board?

[rakkor]

In the Grills you get a choice of disembarkation time, pick one from six or eight slots. Needless to say if you're in quarantine you will be off last.

[Bell Boy]

3 hours ago, CABINET said:

This sounds a real improvement, in my opinion anyway.  Being able to stay in the cabin until it is our time to disembark sounds perfect.

 

However I always assumed that we were evicted early to allow the staff time to service the rooms before new passengers board.   

 

Presumably the trade off for this is that cabins might not be ready when the first passengers start to board?

At the moment it is working well only because the guest occupancy has been limited. Not all staterooms/suites are occupied so new passengers embarking are occupying 'most of the cabins that had been occupied on the previous voyage' and had been left vacant for period of sanitation.

Being able to stay in the cabin until time of embarkation has been one of the best procedures during the present climate , however, when things get back to some sense of normality I guess it will have an impact on  future embarkation. 

[exlondoner]

On my April QE voyage, we were told the Grills were full. But I can't see it would cause much of a problem, as they were first off, and the next lot would be first on, but after a reasonable amount of time.

[Host Hattie]

Holland America have had this system in place for a long time so they must be able to manage it with a full ship.

[david,Mississauga]

4 minutes ago, Host Hattie said:

Holland America have had this system in place for a long time so they must be able to manage it with a full ship.

 

There wasn't much I liked about a HAL cruise a few years ago, but their disembarkation system was one of them. We were instructed to watch our cabin TV for information on which colour-coded disembarkation was ready.  We still had to squeeze by what seemed like a couple hundred people who queued near the gangway despite being asked not to.

[canoncruiser]

As one who was in isolation for two days up to arrival today; I was escorted, and my luggage carried by ship’s staff to the crew gangway. It was in fact very easy. The Purser’s Office had processed my immigration with my passport, it was returned to me earlier this morning. The only confusion was that my driver wasn’t really clear where the Crew gangway was-it’s where the hired cars line up. 

[3rdGenCunarder]

6 hours ago, david,Mississauga said:

 

There wasn't much I liked about a HAL cruise a few years ago, but their disembarkation system was one of them. We were instructed to watch our cabin TV for information on which colour-coded disembarkation was ready.  We still had to squeeze by what seemed like a couple hundred people who queued near the gangway despite being asked not to.

 

I've sailed with HAL a lot and that always happens. When we were in a Neptune Suite, we got priority disembarkation, and gathered in one of the lounges. We had to wriggle our way through the crowd of people who shouldn't have been clogging the hallway. A few were cranky from standing and waiting (which was THEIR OWN fault) and snapped at us to go to the back of the line as if we were cutting in. 

 

[TouchstoneFeste]

On 5/15/2022 at 4:36 AM, rakkor said:

In the Grills you get a choice of disembarkation time, pick one from six or eight slots. Needless to say if you're in quarantine you will be off last.

 

On our May 1 eastbound in QG, we were assigned a time a few days before arrival; we weren't offered multiple choices. I assume we could have requested a different time.

 

Our assigned time was perfectly satisfactory to us. We were checked off on departure, of course, so disembarking *before* our assigned time might have been problematic, but I can't see that departing later would have been so if something had delayed us.

[Windsurfboy]

On 5/15/2022 at 9:24 PM, 3rdGenCunarder said:

 

We had to wriggle our way through the crowd of people who shouldn't have been clogging the hallway. A few were cranky from standing and waiting (which was THEIR OWN fault) and snapped at us to go to the back of the line as if we were cutting in. 

 

 

That always happens on all modes of transport unless it's well organised and policed. Whether it's cruises or airlines , they don't want to just say to people sit down until you're called.

 

We've had some very rude remarks trying to board planes,  Heathrow being worst,  some people seem to resent anyone having priority boarding.