Port days and characters

djc287

Earning My Ears
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I had intended to skip some lines and crowds by meeting characters during port days where we were either skipping port or coming back early. However, this wasn’t the case on my Nov 2022 cruise. The charachters were only out when we were sailing.

We have an upcoming Med cruise with only one sea day so I’m hoping to have more character opportunities during some of the port days. Experiences and thoughts???
 
They are even less likely to be out during the day on the Med cruises as they expect most people to be off the ship.

In my experience characters start coming back out around 3pm on port days.
 
I'm just looking through my Navigators from our 2018 Med cruise. Looks like mid-afternoon a few characters met. Jake was the earliest at 2:30 and 3:30, but Goofy and Mickey didn't start until 4:45 and 5:45 respectively on our Naples day.

In Livorno we had Sofia at 2:45 and Pluto at 3:45, Hook and Smee at 4:45 and then things really take off from there.

In Genoa, things started slightly earlier with more of the main characters with Pluto at 2:30, Goofy at 3:00 and Daisy at 3:30.

In Villefranche it was actually slightly earlier as we got Chip and Dale at 2:15 up on the pool deck in the Gazebo. Several other characters met there through the rest of the afternoon.

In Marseilles, Mickey and Minnie actually met in the morning at 8:45, 9:15 and 9:45 before taking a break and then characters started again at 4:30 with Daisy.

I don't know how things are going down since the restart and it's hard when we don't have paper navigators people have scanned in for reference. I kept all mine from past cruises that had them, but now that it's in the app, it's hard to know.

Have a great cruise. We loved being in the Med. We actually weren't on the ship overly much during the day. I hope that's the case for you as well because there is so much to explore!
 


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