What happens if you miss the boat?!

[KAR3600]

I don't plan on missing the boat---but, you never know-

What do you do if the boat sails without you ??

 

[dzneprincess]

Well if you are still in Port Canaveral, I guess you head back home. If you are in another port, better pull out that credit card and start trying to book a flight! LOL

 

[gizmosammy]

I will say that on our 12/11 Magic we actually set sail late because we waited for people. Apparently it is up to the captain. i assume that the passengers were somehow in contact with the cruiseline and they knew that they were close.

 

[dzneprincess]

There has been many times, also, that the Captn will make the decision to leave people behind. As reported a few times here on the DIS. I would not want to take that chance. Take the all aboard time seriously.

 

[Rence]

I had a friend miss the boat on another cruise line (weather delayed flight). They stayed over in a hotel and then caught a flight to this first port of call and joined the cruise there. I have heard of other folks who did the same.

 

[LoveMyBaby]

I was on another cruise line standing on the deck as we pulled away from the dock at Cozumel watching some drunk (ex)passengers running down the pier screaming at the already-departing ship, frantically waving their plastic souvenir yard drink glasses from Carlos n' Charlie's. Needless to say, the ship didn't turn around.

Don't be that guy. Be back on time. Who knows what happened to them.

 

[tvguy]

Well, there IS an advantage to having Disney book your transfers and air fare. On our cruise, we left 45 minutes late, about 5:35 4 Disney buses came flying into the port (I swear one squealed it's tires coming in).......from our Verandah we could see those people RUNNING through the cruise terminal with their luggage and getting on board.

 

[NancyIL]

Well, hopefuly you have purchased trip insurance that will either pay to fly you to the next port, or reimburse you if you can't go on the cruise at all.

 

[lbgraves]

I believe that several people who were on the hurricane affected cruises missed the ship due to flight delays and had to fly to Key West to board the ship.

 

[RickW]

On our first cruise, in Dec. 2001, I was standing on deck 4 as we were leaving St. Thomas, and watched as a man came running for the ship at about 5:15 as we were pulling out. We didn't stop, we didn't go back, but many of us on deck waved good-bye as we left him standing on the dock.

I was in a Q&A session with the Captian and senior officers the next day, and someone asked him about it. He said that if we had waited any longer, we would have had to wait an extra hour to leave, since we would have had to wait for all of the other ships to leave port first. And it wasn't fair to get the other 2100 people to Castaway Cay late when they were able to make it back to the ship on time.

 

[Donalds_best_pal]

On our cruise back in 03, DCL thought I missed the boat. For some reason my card got missed being scanned when my whole family got on. At around like 7pm when we were leaving key west, I heard an announcement "Would Guest Matthew Settineri from cabin 7541 please pick up the nearest phone and dial 0 immeadiatly!" I went to the phone and dialed zero. They had be come down to guest relations and check my card. Just missed me somehow. It was odd.

MAtt

 

[mickeyboat]

We booked air through DCL and almost missed the boat in March due to flight delays. We boarded through Deck 1 with no luggage and the ship set sail as soon as we boarded (on time departure, though).

If we hadn't made the ship, DCL or our travel insurance company would have flown us to St. Maarten and put us up in a hotel there until we could meet the ship.

Denae

 

[UGAFan0829]

Well, there IS an advantage to having Disney book your transfers and air fare. On our cruise, we left 45 minutes late, about 5:35 4 Disney buses came flying into the port (I swear one squealed it's tires coming in).......from our Verandah we could see those people RUNNING through the cruise terminal with their luggage and getting on board.

Sorry...but this post made me laugh out loud...just the thought of a Disney bus squeeling tires! Too funny! I'm sure the people who were on that bus didn't find it too funny though!

 

[pediatric-rnp]

On our cruise back in 03, DCL thought I missed the boat. For some reason my card got missed being scanned when my whole family got on. At around like 7pm when we were leaving key west, I heard an announcement "Would Guest Matthew Settineri from cabin 7541 please pick up the nearest phone and dial 0 immeadiatly!" I went to the phone and dialed zero. They had be come down to guest relations and check my card. Just missed me somehow. It was odd.

MAtt

This also happened to us last April. We (DH, 2 teen DSs and myself) had re-boarded the ship from CC at 4:30, to get ready for early dinner. We later heard my DH and younger DS's names announced over the loudspeaker for the same reason - later found out that altho their cards had been scanned on re-entry to the ship, somehow it didn't go through! I'm glad we were together - if I had heard their names like that, and wasn't sure if they were on board, I would have had a heart attack!!

 

[cruisenewbie2004]

I will say that on our 12/11 Magic we actually set sail late because we waited for people. Apparently it is up to the captain. i assume that the passengers were somehow in contact with the cruiseline and they knew that they were close.

Actually, that was not the case, at least the in contact with the ship part. We were listening to ship to shore communications via a radio and the captain had no idea where these people were. One guy went on his own to St Johns and no one knew what excursion company he hired. The captain kept muttering "here comes another lucky family" when one group would come back. We asked out server and he said in his two years they only left one man, and he simply could not be found.

 

[smchan]

Actually, that was not the case, at least the in contact with the ship part. We were listening to ship to shore communications via a radio and the captain had no idea where these people were. One guy went on his own to St Johns and no one knew what excursion company he hired. The captain kept muttering "here comes another lucky family" when one group would come back. We asked out server and he said in his two years they only left one man, and he simply could not be found.

I think gizmosammy was referring to when we left Port Canaveral. At the sail-away party, they announced the captain decided we would be leaving PC late because some folks were on a delayed flight.

Sam

 

[DisneyElf]

When I was on the Magic - Sept. '03 Western -- at every port we heard them page at least 20 - 30 people -- eventually the list got down to just a couple and we left port. Now I am wondering if everybody made it back from the different ports.

We were told during the Capts. talk - that DCL does have a representative that stays at the dock to assist stranded passengers with travel arrangements (not to pay for them though).


I'm not taking that chance -- and try to be back to the ship with at least a 1/2 hour to spare.

 

[cruisenewbie2004]

Gotcha. I was referring to our almost late departure from St Thomas.