San Juan / Rhapsody OTS Question…

[Hoppy2BHere]

Good evening,

     So… We are on the June 15, 2025 sailing on Rhapsody out of San Juan and were surprised to see the documents said Pier 4 for departure/embarkation… Kinda thought it was a typo as we were expecting the Pan American pier. Now looking at the tracker, today’s sailing appears to be from P4 as well. Any news/thoughts on what might be going on? How prepared/modern is that terminal for departures? We have been in and out multiple times at the transient piers and seems like it would be a mess over there vs PA pier… Any thoughts/insights would be appreciated…

Jim & Sher

[smokeybandit]

The Pan American Pier has been undergoing a bunch of upgrades as they build up that area, so in the interim RC cruises sail out of Pier 4.

Pier 4 right outside the terminal that other home porting cruise lines use.

[Ryan79]

I was on Rhapsody in January and was expecting to depart from the Pan American port until a few weeks from embarking. Pier 4 is very modern and you will have no issues with boarding. I will highly recommended getting there as early as possible as getting into Old Town SJ can be a cluster…and that is putting it mildly. Before noon isn’t that bad at all, gets hairy after that. We got a 11am boarding time, we were dropped off at 10:25 with very little traffic by the ship and we were onboard by 10:40. That included a delay caused by a software hitch the check-in folks experienced. I’d have zero issues embarking from that pier again. Next time however, I’d stay in a hotel in Old Town and just walk to the pier.

[Hoppy2BHere]

Great! We are early boarders and lucked out in a suite. I think we will be good.
Thank you for your responses! 

J&S