Grand Cayman Tendering?

[Colorado DISers]

How long does it take, on average, to tender a group from ship to shore and get back to pick up the next group at Grand Cayman? How many can the tender seat? TIA

 

[lady9]

We have not been to GC on Disney but went on Royal Caribbean. They said the tender takes 20 minutes but it was more like 10. The tender can hold many people. There is more than 1. When we were leaving, another tender was loading and there was 1 waiting to load and 1 we could see at the dock. On the way back to the ship it was a bit scary. Local people ran that boat which was large. It loaded all the people going back to the ships that were docked including RCI and Carnival. They stopped at both ships to let people off. I don't know if that will be the case with Disney or not but I was sure we were doing something wrong! We made it back just fine.

 

[captchris]

In Grand Cayman there were two different size tenders on our recent DCL cruise. One held 300 people, and the other type held 90. The ships are able to anchor close to shore and it is a fairly short and nice ride.