rjac Posted January 24, 2022 Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 Planning a cruise next year on the Anthem OTS out of New Jersey. First stop is Cape Canaveral. Does Royal offer excursions to the Kennedy Space Center? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCG Teacher Posted January 24, 2022 Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 2 hours ago, rjac said: Planning a cruise next year on the Anthem OTS out of New Jersey. First stop is Cape Canaveral. Does Royal offer excursions to the Kennedy Space Center? Thanks! They do! Both guided and unguided. rjac and KristiZ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather K. Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 I was wondering about this as well. I will be on the Oasis in July and it says we will arrive in Cape Canaveral until 1pm. Kennedy Space Center is only open until 5pm. Is this enough time? If not, what other recommendations are there if we chose to get off the ship? Thank you...first time poster! rjac 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeizeToday Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 1/25/2022 at 7:13 AM, Heather K. said: I was wondering about this as well. I will be on the Oasis in July and it says we will arrive in Cape Canaveral until 1pm. Kennedy Space Center is only open until 5pm. Is this enough time? If not, what other recommendations are there if we chose to get off the ship? Thank you...first time poster! I am also on this sailing this summer and I called KSC to verify all of this. She said that they close at 5pm, no matter what (meaning they aren't open any later to cruise ship guests, even though the excursion says it's 8 hours...). She said by the time you get off the ship at 1:30/1:45 and get over to KSC by 2:00/2:15, you really have less than three hours to see everything. The two IMAX movies alone are around 40 minutes each, let alone everything else. We were going to do the guided tour, but after hearing that, I think we'll just wait until we can devote a day or two to seeing everything. I'm interested to hear if there's anything else to do within such a limited timeframe. We might just end up staying on the ship. rjac, Heather K. and Beanmama 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelandyGA Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 I wouldn't do Kennedy with such a limited amount of time! New to cruising, but we've vacationed at Cocoa Beach/Canaveral area for several years. In 2020, we got discounted tickets to Kennedy with a 2021 return ticket while they were only partially open. We spent the whole day, open to close, there in 2020 despite the limited offerings and returned last year and spent open to close again seeing what we'd missed the time before (mainly the bus tour to the Apollo building). It's definitely an awesome place to visit when you have time - the reveal of the Atlantis (from watching a video to seeing it in person) gave me goosebumps! This "reveal" wasn't operational in 2020 b/c it's like a pre-show in a closed space, so I didn't know to expect it last year and it blew me away! Beanmama 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff P Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 We were wondering about this as an excursion as well, either doing Oasis or Anthem out of NJ and with only a partial day at Port Canaveral wasn’t sure if we would have enough time.  How much time do you really need to see the majority of Kennedy Space Center?  I know some of the ships get to port at noon, would half day be enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregD Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 21 hours ago, Geoff P said: We were wondering about this as an excursion as well, either doing Oasis or Anthem out of NJ and with only a partial day at Port Canaveral wasn’t sure if we would have enough time.  How much time do you really need to see the majority of Kennedy Space Center?  I know some of the ships get to port at noon, would half day be enough? I personally wouldn't go with that short of time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unsuspecting Cruiser Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 Sadly, Kennedy Space Center excursion was cancelled for my April 3rd sailing by Royal Caribbean. Two airboat excursions were sold out. Looking like I will be stuck on the ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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