Actual sail away times?

[yorkieteacher]

We are on a four night cruise on the Dream. Sail away is listed as 3:45. Although I know there are currently no sail away parties, I enjoy seeing the ship head out to sea and away from the port. Recent cruisers, what time did your sailing actually get away? I hate to have other activities booked and miss it-

 

[cvjw]

In October, sail away was at 4:00

 

[daisyx3]

On our 3 night Dream Nov. 5, it was around 6. There was a very late arrival and then some issues (they kept paging engineers). At least it was still light because daylight savings was 2 days later.

 

[MomOTwins]

It was about 5:15pm on our dream cruise. We were keeping an eye on the time because we had to pick kids up from the club at 5:30 before early dinner, and I was surprised we were sailing away so late.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the late starts are due to them running longer to complete all the covid testing on cruises. We were on one of the higher-attendance cruises (over 2,000) and they were definitely still doing the welcome show in the lobby at 4pm as we were dropping the kids off at the club.

 

[iloveeeyore]

Wondering same about Magic out of Miami. Our All Aboard time is 4pm. How long after all aboard does it usually sail? We have the champagne tasting at 4 and conflicted about if we want to be in a bar or on deck, hope it ends up not overlapping. Anyone with experience on this?

 

[Akck]

On the Wonder, the Captain announced approximately when we’d leave the dock. It was between 4-4:30 pm. I don’t recall when it was announced, but there was plenty of time to get up on deck with a drink.

 

[Frozencleo]

I was on the Magic about 3 weeks ago, and we left about 5/5:15.

 

[bayri]

Last week for the 12/12 Fantasy, we started to sail away ~5:00pm according to my photos! I forgot when the all aboard time was.