12 Oclock excursion time-line up times?

[Love2Cruise2015]

Hi Everyone! It has been almost 3 years since I have been on a DC and I have forgotten how long in advance do they have you go to your meeting spot for your booked excursion through Disney?
NOTE: My family and I (2 adults and 2 teen age boys) have a 12 O'clock excursion time so how far in advance will we have to go to our meeting spot to board for our excursion through DCL and would we have time to have a quick lunch/snack before the excursion as unfortunately it doesn't come with lunch.

 

[Calantha]

I have forgotten how long in advance do they have you go to your meeting spot for your booked excursion through Disney?

So I emailed Disney about that (sort of) and the agent wrote back: "The time listed for the Port Adventure is actually the meeting time onboard the ship."

But is that really true? I have 2 things booked on one day (one AM and one PM) - not something I would usually do, but it is Alaska, so anyway. One ends at 12:30 and the other starts at 2:30 and I was trying to figure out if we'd actually be back to the ship at 12:30 and then have time for lunch and then meet the next one at 2:30, or if we had to be there earlier.

 

[MomOTwins]

So I emailed Disney about that (sort of) and the agent wrote back: "The time listed for the Port Adventure is actually the meeting time onboard the ship."

But is that really true? I have 2 things booked on one day (one AM and one PM) - not something I would usually do, but it is Alaska, so anyway. One ends at 12:30 and the other starts at 2:30 and I was trying to figure out if we'd actually be back to the ship at 12:30 and then have time for lunch and then meet the next one at 2:30, or if we had to be there earlier.

It is actually true: the time listed is when you are scheduled to meet. However, excursions can and do often run late, sometimes by multiple hours. This can be because the ship arrives to port late and it pushes back the start times, it could be the excursion gets a late start, it could be it starts on time but runs behind schedule. Also end time is generally end time and does not include the time it takes to go through the (sometimes VERY long) line at port to check in and get back on the ship.

Unless it was castaway cay, where everything is a 10 minute walk away from where you need to be, I don't think I'd try to book two excursions with 2 hours in between the end time and the next start time.

 

[Calantha]

I don't think I'd try to book two excursions with 2 hours in between the end time and the next start time.

You raise some really good points. This is all at icy point strait, so I’m going to try to get a hold of the tour operator today. (They run everything through that one website/organization as far as I can tell), to make sure that it would actually work out.

My hope was that the earlier excursion was near town and we could just leave when we wanted to and didn’t necessarily have to stay the whole time (it is the ropes course).

 

[Love2Cruise2015]

Thank you Calantha and MomofTwins for answering my question