What time Sunday do you get off boat

[krmills]

We're taking the 3 night cruise this July, our first time on the Disney Cruise. We'll be staying at Vero Beach right after the cruise. I have to pick up friends at Orlando Airport right after the cruise to take them with us to Vero.
The web site says the cruise ends at 7:30am on Sunday, but how long on average does it take you to get off the boat. I'd like to time it so I don't have to wait at the airport too long nor do I want them to sit and wait for us. A quick check shows I could have them arrive at 9am, 9:30am ro 10:30am. Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[mommasita]

Hi we have gotten off between 8-8:30. Everyone is supposed to be off by 9:00am. That obviously is providing all goes well, and everyone has cleared customs, weather cooperates...etc. etc...

Hope that helped..

p.s. We had our car service pick us up around 9:00 because our flights were at 11:30am...

 

[Sue (mom of 3 boys!)]

We had early seating, so our breakfast seating was at 6:45 AM. We finished around 7:30AM, just as they cleared the ship for debarkation.

If you have cruised before, I am sure you remember the not-so-easy debarkation of a ship.

With Disney, it was so easy. Once the ship is cleared, you can leave. No waititng for them to call your color, etc. We walked off, got our luggage, went through customs, and out to the rental shuttle.

The folks who had late dinner seating have a later b'fast seating-8:00 I think.

Like everyone else said-they do try have the ship cleared by 9:00 AM.

 

[tvguy]

If you have cruised before, I am sure you remember the not-so-easy debarkation of a ship.

With Disney, it was so easy. Once the ship is cleared, you can leave. No waititng for them to call your color, etc. We walked off, got our luggage, went through customs, and out to the rental shuttle.
Like everyone else said-they do try have the ship cleared by 9:00 AM.

After 8 cruises, the last on Disney, I have to disagree about getting off the ship being "easy". How they handle everything in the cruise terminal is the best I've seen, but the actually getting off the ship was the worst nightmare I have ever encountered on a cruise.
Disney lets you get off when you like, with no organization, and no priority to those that have early flights. We waited in line for 45 minutes to get off the ship. Talk about gridlock!!! I talked to some folks at the airport who were among the last off, it took until 10:15 for Disney to get everyone off the ship.
Most other lines request your return flight information, divide you up into public rooms, and called your group off with the folks getting off the ship in the order of when their flights were. On our HAL cruise there were 26 different groups, we sat in a public group and enjoyed coffee, juice and donuts until it was our turn to get off the ship. Since were had a 4 pm flight, we were in group 26. They called 5 groups at a time, and had everyone off the ship in 45 minutes total. Must less stressful end to the cruise than with Disney. Of course, the 90 minute wait at Orlando airport to clear security didn't help, not Disney's fault there, but we BARELY made our 12:35 pm flight, literally walked right on the plane after clearing security.

 

[lsl]

Are you renting a vehicle at the Cape? If so, don't forget to calcuate wait times for the rental shuttle to pick you up and the expected lines are the rental facility. Upon completion of our Feb05 cruise, we waited 15mins for Budget and ran into irate customers at other stops who have been waiting for 30mins or longer. Luckily we arrived at the rental facility before them.. BTW, we ate breakfast on board at Tritons, then disembarked.

 

[Sue (mom of 3 boys!)]

oops! posted twice by accident...

 

[Sue (mom of 3 boys!)]

Wow TVGUY, you obviously had a much rougher time than we did. The only other experiences we have had have been with RCCL. We were crammed into common areas waiting for long periods to have our colors called. They didn't ask our flight times (nor did Disney). It was hot, stuffy and long--almost 1 hour before we were corralled off the ship--and we were tagged with early debarkation tags. So our Disney experience was much more pleasant.
I wonder how others have made out? We were planning an earlier flight next time, but maybe we won't if you experience is more common that ours...