BillNH

On 4/19/2022 at 11:53 AM, twangster said:

I understand and I think the experience will vary by port.  Some people have reported large groups of people crowding the terminal entrance making it difficult for guests arriving on time to see or reach the entrance.   It's just a mass of people standing around, not an organized queue operating on a standby basis.

When I used to sail Carnival they always enforced arrival times even 10 years ago.  There was no standby queue, it was "Come back when it's time, until then you may not enter".  

Update on my post.  For giggles i have been checking each day for additional time slots to open up to no avail.  Well last night around midnight, 2 days before the cruise, low and behold additional slots opened and I was able to move up two hours.  Bingo!  Got what i was hoping for without upsetting the apple cart.

I guess what I was hoping for is maybe a stand bye area group.  Say if they are done booking the 12-12:30 time and they have 10 minutes left over maybe they could pull from that group.  My intention was not to make someone wait that has a valid booking time.

Thanks for all the advice.  As a newbie to cruising, I booked everything on my own, so new to any of the processes.  May take my chances and show up early and if I have to sit in the hot sun a couple hours, I guess I get a head start on my Tan:) 

We just switched our flight, so we arrive a day early because of all the travel delays out there.  Yes, I should have done this from the beginning but made a rookie mistake.  So my question is, any chance of us getting on board earlier than our 2PM scheduled time?  All the slots are taken before ours, so we cant officially move up but thought I might arrive at noon and stand in line hoping they would take us sooner. So am I wasting my time or might this actually work?  Trip is leaving from San Juan April 24th.

Thank you Ashley

What embark dock is used in San Juan for the April 24th cruise?