Concierge and Port Canaveral Arrival Time

[coloradocutie]

The terminal is pretty crowded early on. Boarding begins around 11:15am; if you arrive much before 10:45am you'll have to deal with crowds/lines getting through security into the terminal. Once inside, since you are concierge, you will have a separate check-in and waiting area that hopefully isn't as bad - though it isn't terribly large. Depending on your sons needs, you might time your arrival to be around 12:15/12:30 for little or no crowds -- most of the early passengers have cleared out of the terminal by that point and it's sort of the sweetspot between early crowds and those arriving from the WDW resorts.

Enjoy your cruise!

We got to the port at 12:30. No lines at security. Were the only ones at the concierge check in. Were escorted to the front of the line where everyone else was boarding. The room was ready to drop our things off in and the lounge was quite available. It was an ideal time… a sweetspot for sure!!

Have a wonderful time on your cruise!!!

 

[phinz]

Only beer and wine is offered for embarkation cocktail hour btw.

That's a new change as well, then, because I had about three fingers of Macallan in the lounge during embarkation on our first Concierge trip.

 

[Dave2425]

Only beer and wine is offered for embarkation cocktail hour btw.

I like that. It gets pretty crazy in the lounge during embarkation and limiting what's offered should help move people through.