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steviek49
April 5th, 2006, 08:47 PM
Hi
My family will be on the 4/8 Zuiderdam Eastern Carib cruise. Nassau Port of call in brocure says 1-8pm. Website says 1-7pm.
Anybody on this ship recently that can share time of arrival and departure?
We are considering Comfort Suites/Atlantis. 1-8 is short enough but 1-7pm may be so short I might consider cancelling.
I figure that If ship arrives at 1pm we might get to CS by 2pm realistically and probably to the slides/pools (will be tough to find a chaise) by 2:30pm.
If ship departs at 7 - my guess is they will advise us to be back on board by 6pm hich means leave Atlantis by approximately 5:30pm. That's a total of 3 hours at Atlantis.
Even one hour more will help some because the pools probably close at 6 or 6:30pm but If I don't have to be back on the ship until 7 (for 8pm depart) we have that extra hour to explore the digs/aquariums.
Just a note- we have spent a week at Atlantis in 2003 and did the Comfort Suites/Atlantis on our NCL Dawn cruise in 2004. (8am-6pm port of call that day).
So- anyone know if it's 1-7pm or 1-8pm.
While I am at it the brochure also says St. Thomas is 8am-11pm but website says 8am-9pm. Which is true?

Thank you for any and all info

COLandlocked
April 5th, 2006, 09:24 PM
We just returned from the ZUI. We were scheduled from 1:00 to 7:00. We actually arrived early 11:30. All aboard was 6:30.

We actually did the digs and loved them. It was during spring break so we could not get a room at the comfort suites. The pools looked great, but we sure did love the digs.

Have fun!

steviek49
April 5th, 2006, 11:25 PM
Thank you-
That was very helpful.
At this time we will probably Helmet Dive @ Coal World then Coki Beach- we'll take a cab each way
Take a ferry on our own to the Baths @ Tortolla
Maybe CS/Atlantis in Nassau
Parasail on HMC and of course the beach/ we booked thru HAL
If you guys have any better ideas or recommendation for next week's cruise feel free to write and let me know.

kidz_rn
April 16th, 2006, 05:13 PM
We too were on the Zuiderdam 4/8 cruise. The ship arrived earlier than scheduled in Nassau (12 noon vs. 1 pm.) Departed at 6:30.