How do delays work?

[cacruisin]

Our sailing  for today on the Panorama has been delayed by three hours. Does anyone have experience with similar delays? How does it work? Do they simply push back the dinners and the shows? Do they still have the buffet open when you get on? Will they still have a sail away party? Can I still get my funfetti cheesecake lol?  I’m anticipating long lines and a stressful situation.

Edited March 25, 2023 by cacruisin

[staceyglow]

They take the funfetti cheesecake off of the buffet and serve it to the crew. 😉

[timtrek]

The Panorama is still not in port.  I just looked, and it is just passing Huntington Beach on its way to the port.  

[staceyglow]

But seriously, don't stress. Roll with it. Everyone who travels knows that stuff happens that is no one's fault and that you can't do anything about. I am on the Panorama right now, but on my last cruise, my inbound flight was delayed so much that I had to spend the night at the airport. I didn't let it ruin the rest of my trip. Now it's just an interesting story. 😊

[EngIceDave]

Yeah, don't stress it. Just push back everything by that many hours. They can make that up at sea, same as a plane running late.

[Guest BasicSailor]

Let's hope you're not flying home.😶

[staceyglow]

2 minutes ago, BasicSailor said:

Let's hope you're not flying home.😶

Nope, but most of the people who followed Carnival's recommendation not to book a flight before 1 will be just fine. 

[gtouch]

"How do delays work"......you wait. Sorry couldn't help myself.

[FastShip24]

All the food will be open as usual.  You will still eat at the same timed

[FastShip24]

1 hour ago, staceyglow said:

Nope, but most of the people who followed Carnival's recommendation not to book a flight before 1 will be just fine. 

Not true. I followed their guidelines and still had to change my flight.  3 hours is a huge difference 

[FastShip24]

1 hour ago, timtrek said:

The Panorama is still not in port.  I just looked, and it is just passing Huntington Beach on its way to the port.  

We are docking now.  1020 am

[Guest BasicSailor]

1 hour ago, staceyglow said:

Nope, but most of the people who followed Carnival's recommendation not to book a flight before 1 will be just fine. 

Not many really do follow those recommendations.😅

[FastShip24]

Just now, BasicSailor said:

Not many really do follow those recommendations.😅

We had a 130 flight out of LAX.   We might have barely made it now. We changed.   

[FastShip24]

1 hour ago, timtrek said:

The Panorama is still not in port.  I just looked, and it is just passing Huntington Beach on its way to the port.  

We are docking now

[Guest BasicSailor]

Just now, FastShip24 said:

We had a 130 flight out of LAX.   We might have barely made it now. We changed.   

Smart thinking on your part.👍

[FastShip24]

Just now, BasicSailor said:

Smart thinking on your part.👍

We had 55 mph headwinds as we left Baja. An interesting thing when I added our flight to our reservation, the ship gave us early bag tags to get of quickly. Very nice of them

[Joebucks]

Here's how it works: everything onboard happens the same (except the sail away party may be impacted). Meanwhile, all of the busybodies scramble to understand how this has ruined their life.