Embarkation Time

[casandbliz]

Does Celebrity have you choose an embarkation time frame, like other cruise lines are now doing?

[bama4cruisin]

Yes.  You will have the opportunity to select a 30-minute window when you check in.

[canderson]

1 hour ago, casandbliz said:

Does Celebrity have you choose an embarkation time frame, like other cruise lines are now doing?

Yes, although if you have booked a suite, the required selection of a time slot doesn't mean anything since you can board whenever boarding is possible.  A typical Celebrity IT glitch.

 

When you do online check-in, you will be offered time slots from which to choose (usually not just one), but if you check in fairly early and see only really late time slots, don't fret.  Go back and check again as for whatever reason, the earlier ones start to pop up later during the days of check-in, and you can edit it after the fact.  Another strange Celebrity IT thing. 

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2022 by canderson
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[casandbliz]

THANKS GUYS!!

[Mark_K]

18 hours ago, canderson said:

Yes, although if you have booked a suite, the required selection of a time slot doesn't mean anything since you can board whenever boarding is possible.  A typical Celebrity IT glitch.

 

When you do online check-in, you will be offered time slots from which to choose (usually not just one), but if you check in fairly early and see only really late time slots, don't fret.  Go back and check again as for whatever reason, the earlier ones start to pop up later during the days of check-in, and you can edit it after the fact.  Another strange Celebrity IT thing. 

 

 

 

I’m not sure it’s a glitch so much as them preferring you choose a time even if you’re not required to.

[canderson]

2 hours ago, Mark_K said:

I’m not sure it’s a glitch so much as them preferring you choose a time even if you’re not required to.

Pretty sure it is, and that their system simply isn't coded to branch based upon cabin class.

 

For suites, the information requested by the shoreside concierge has included a separate request for our approximate arrival time, which is therefore what one would assume they go by, irrespective of whatever slots X's IT might show us during check-in online.  It's all first-come first-serve in any case, but probably allows shoreside to advise the ship so they can better plan pier staffing as your post suggests - just a different mechanism.

[arbroath55]

From recent experience boarding at Vancouver

Board as early as you can despite what your allocated boarding time is.

The earlier you go = the fewer in the q

Nobody ( check in staff ) matches up allocated boarding time with the time you are actually there as they are all too busy asking you to provide the same information that you so patiently spent time entering into the online pre-board system