What is the latest time you can arrive at ship?

[pmm0724]

I will be traveling and am worried about airline delays.

 

[mmouse37]

I believe the latest you can board is 4:00 ish, maybe even 3:30 as they want you onboard for the life boat drill.

If you can arrange it, your best bet to avoid the worry of getting to the port too late is to fly the day before, especially in winter months as that is when delays seem to peak.....

We love getting to the port as soon as it opens and getting onboard as soon as they let you....around noon.....that way we have basically the whole day on the ship and can start enjoying the ship and our vacation early.

MJ

 

[E&BMom]

I would definitely fly in the day before. We sailed in March and a family from the Dis boards were delayed for mechanical problems and ended up missing the ship. Good luck!

 

[mickeyboat]

Fly in the day before. I think I will make is my DIS Goal to help people avoid the same mistake we did.

We were scheduled to be at MCO at 1:30, didn't arrive until 4:00 because of flight delays. We boarded through Deck 1 without our luggage, which we didn't have for three days.

We still had fun, but it would have been a lot less stressful to have come in the day before.

Denae

 

[Favorite Auntie]

I have always flown in the night before...except ONCE. My sister insisted it would be EASIER to fly in Saturday morning... Well, there was a snow storm in Boston (November 13th!), and we sat on the runway for 2 HOURS!! I thought I was going to kill her! Did I mention we were on this plane with the two of us, 2 - 6 year olds, a 4 year old and a 3 year old? I really should have killed. If ever there was a time for "I told you so..." this was IT!! We ended up getting to the shop at 3, we took one of the last shuttles from MCO. I am not sure how late the shuttles go, or if they would have let us board much later than we did.