soonerconvert74 Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 My wife and I have a 7 day on Freedom at the end of August. When we checked-in, it asked for a specific check in time. This is the first time we were asked for a specific time. Has anyone ever had this feature for the ship check-in? We like to check in early, board as early as we can, get an adult libation, walk the ship find a nice spot and people watch on the sun decks as everyone comes onboard. With this specific time check-in, are you limited to the 30 minute block as a hard and fast rule? If you show up early are you standing out in the hot sun in the parking lot until your specific time? Any experience (good or bad) with this check-in process would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 Pre covid it didnt matter what time you were allocated for check in, you just turned up when you wanted. We turned up for our Freedom cruise at 10.30am and was onboard just after 11am with drink in hand, this was well before our allocated check in time. Things may have changed now slightly in that it may take longer to board depending what measures they put in place but you should still be able to head to ship earlier than allocated time soonerconvert74 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlantix2000 Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 For departures from US ports, Royal does not enforce a boarding time policy. I've been asked when I plan to arrive but I've never been obligated to actually arrive then. (They might ask so they have an idea of when the busy times will be but I don't really think they do anything with the information.) I haven't seen any announcement that this will change once cruising restarts but you never know. The check in process will have to include social distancing in line and if they can discourage too many people from showing up at the same time, that would probably help. RWDW1204 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew72681 Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 Before the shutdown the boarding times were not enforced. However, many believe that once things start back up they will he mo into red and enforced to control the crowds at the terminal. SpeedNoodles and Jill 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseGus Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 Hope they think to assign times by C&A status RWDW1204 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedNoodles Posted June 11, 2020 Report Share Posted June 11, 2020 17 minutes ago, CruiseGus said: Hope they think to assign times by C&A status From the sounds of it they are allowing people to choose their arrival time when they check in. So checking in as soon as it opens would be advantageous. RWDW1204 and Jill 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew72681 Posted June 11, 2020 Report Share Posted June 11, 2020 22 minutes ago, SpeedNoodles said: From the sounds of it they are allowing people to choose their arrival time when they check in. So checking in as soon as it opens would be advantageous. Hold on........Do you mean there are people who don’t check everyday in case check-in opens early? Matt, Spang1974, PRebecca and 3 others 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedNoodles Posted June 11, 2020 Report Share Posted June 11, 2020 52 minutes ago, Andrew72681 said: Hold on........Do you mean there are people who don’t check everyday in case check-in opens early? ^^^^ exactly this ^^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew72681 Posted June 11, 2020 Report Share Posted June 11, 2020 8 minutes ago, SpeedNoodles said: ^^^^ exactly this ^^^^ And also from about day 80 before sailing on Oasis class ship start checking the entertainment tab in case those get released early. Spang1974 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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