Carnival Mardi Gras boarding times.

[Aosborn]

What are the earliest boarding times for the Mardi Gras? I have a 10:30am-11:00am time and was curious how many boarding groups were before me. 

[Elaine5715]

10 am is the earliest arrival time.  Boarding Groups start at A1 and starting being called about 11:15 am

[Bandman]

On Mardi Gras 5/28 we had 10:30-11am check in time and Boarding group B01.
 

We arrived at terminal at 9:50.  Waited in traffic 10 minutes to pull in to garage. Dropped luggage and parked. Waited until 10:15 to walk in to terminal. We were allowed in and immediately checked-in using Verifly(which worked perfectly).

We then sat in the waiting area. At 10:30 they made an announcement that boarding would start in 30 mins. 

 

At 10:50 they started boarding suites. Then the A groups started. The man working our section of the waiting area told us that there could be as many as 9 of the A boarding groups, but sometimes are less. 
 

At 10:55 they started boarding the A01 group. They called B01 at 11:04. We dropped luggage in our room and were in the buffet at 11:23!

[Knights on the Beach]

Our arrival times have been 10:00 A5 twice (December and March) and 11:00 C2 once (5/28) for Mardi Gras. The earliest we stepped onto the ship was 11:22 and it was last week with our 11:00 arrival time.