Port Arrival Time - Encore/Miami

[IrishCowboy]

We've been assigned port arrival times of 10:30 and 12:00.   Can we enter terminal early if we get to the port before our scheduled arrival time?

 

Thanks!

[TheDawg79]

Depends on who is doing the checking in and where at. Most of the time no one cares, but sometimes you are told to wait. Obviously no one can tell you which response you will encounter. 

[Homosassa]

45 minutes ago, IrishCowboy said:

We've been assigned port arrival times of 10:30 and 12:00.   Can we enter terminal early if we get to the port before our scheduled arrival time?

 

Thanks!

If you arrive too early before 10:30 AM, there is a good chance that the previous cruise passengers will still be leaving the ship and all port employees will be busy with departing guests or setting up to check in new passengers.

 

You will be lined up on the sidewalk waiting for terminal doors to open.

[BirdTravels]

7 hours ago, IrishCowboy said:

We've been assigned port arrival times of 10:30 and 12:00.   Can we enter terminal early if we get to the port before our scheduled arrival time?

 

Thanks!

Yes you can enter early. The earliest time in Miami is 9:30 and the terminal is open before that. We arrived around 9:30 last week and there was a line to get in. 

[wolft927]

Again, All depends on who you get at the entrance to the terminal checking paperwork, and also depends on how crowded the terminal already is. A lot of time they instruct the staff when not busy to let everyone in, other times if terminal is already busy they crack down on the check in times. Usually not always as long as disembarkation is going smoothly and there is no USCG inspection or other inspection they dont even look at the times. 

[IrishCowboy]

Thank you for the responses.