Help!

[Disneybridein2k3]

Okay, I need help. I am trying to get my daughter's friend to be able to go on the cruise with us on February 5, 2005 and she can go but only if she can get to the ship in time (she has an ice skating competition that morning and cannot fly out of Harrisburg, PA until noon). I know the ship doesn't leave until 5:00, but what is the latest time you can board?

TIA!
Stacy

 

[Pidge]

My Passporter says that though the ship is scheduled to leave at 5, it can leave as early as 4 if the situation warrants. I don't know why I remember thinking you need to be on the ship 2 hours before it leaves. Is that correct?

 

[westjones]

I can not imagine this would work out for you guys. The planes can be delayed, there can be traffic problems, all kinds of things can happen. We had a Dis Meet on our cruise in September, and a couple showed up at the end as we were leaving. Their plane didn't take off for over an hour as they sat on the runway. You just never know.

Personally, I think it is best to fly in the night before, but if you are going fly in on the day of the cruise it should be a VERY early flight.

DJ

 

[Lloyd Dobler]

My understanding is that everyone has to be on board for the lifeboat drill, an hour before the ship leaves. But they will hold the ship for people whose flights are late, provding that they purchased their air through the cruise line (and depending on how late they will be). I'm guessing in this situation she'd be booking her own air, so all bets are off as far as the ship waiting.

I guess that what you're decsribing is possible, assuming you can fly directly from Harrisburg to MCO, but you would really, really be cutting it close. A noon flight out of Harrisburg would get in at around 2:30 if everything's on time. Figure a half-hour for luggage and then about an hour to the port. Again, technically, it's do-able, but....

I just did a quick check on Travelocity, and only found one non-stop flight on that day, leaving at 10:30am. Everything else had a stop and didn't get in until after 4.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Even though the news was not so good, I sincerely appreciate everyone's help. I knew that we were really pushing it, but the alternative is for her to fly into our first port of call and I highly doubt that is even allowed. Oh well, it was worth a try!

Thanks again so much!!!
Stacy

 

[Lloyd Dobler]

I don't know if they'd actually allow you to plan on boarding from the first port. Anyway, it looks like this is an eastern trip, so the first port would be St. Maarten on Tuesday. I'm sure flying there would be cost prohibitive, aside from the fact that she'd miss half the cruise.

Sorry it didn't work out.