Recent Western cruisers - some questions

[Masonpips]

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

1) What time did you depart Key West?

2) I have the show rotation as follows:
Sat: Variety Show
Sun: WWTBAM
Mon: Golden Mickeys
Tues: Hercules
Wed: Movie Night - Pirate Deck Party
Thurs: Disney Dreams
Fri: Farwell Variety - Kid’s clubs show

Is that accurate? We are on the NYE cruise so they may swap some things, but are these the right shows?

3) What time were you able to tender in Grand Cayman? We have the 10-1 Captain Marvin's trip which I know we'll be fine for but we may want to shop a bit beforehand. Were the shops open when you got off the ship?

Thanks again!

 

[jerry112]

Hi Masonpips,

Just returned from the 11/6 western and also had the 10-1 Captain Marvins excursion, which was fantastic, despite some pretty rough waters. The first tender left at 7:30 am and you were to meet at the Buena Vista theater if you did not have a DCL excursion. We expected a full theater and had barely one aisle of people waiting. Made it to the island by 8:15 and to Captain Marvins by 8:45. We didn't do any early shopping so I don't recall what shops were open. Nothing seemed very crowded though!

Key West departure was 7:30 pm
Cozumel departure was 12:30 am

All show rotations are correct. I just mailed Navigators from that cruise to castaway club. Hopefully, they will be posted within the next week or two.

Hope this helped,
Karen

 

[Masonpips]

Thank you! We had the same experience in Cayman last time too - we were stressed because we didn't do a DCL excursion so we got down there early and immediately got on a tender!

 

[jel0511]

I was also on the 11/6 cruise with jerry112 and concur with everything she said. I did want to note, that we also were worried about tendering, but didn't encounter ANY problems. We went into the theater around 8AM, and were on-shore by 8:20. I think we ended up on the first tender, even though our tender ticket said 2, since I saw others in the theater with a tender ticket with 1 on it. Anyway. most of the shops were open when we got to downtown, so we were able to browse before leaving on our Nativeway excursion.