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TroubleMaker
April 14th, 2004, 02:16 PM
Help!! I'm booking my own excursions and I thought I had the whole time thing figured out, but then came daylight savings and messed me all up. I know that some countries observe daylight savings time and others don't. We'll be sailing the Paradise Western Caribbean and from what I've read on the boards, the Paradise stays on ship time. So here's the itinerary that's in my travel docs:

Tue Belize 9:00am-6:00pm
Wed Isla Roatan 7:00am-3:00pm
Thu Grand Cayman 9:30am-5:00pm
Fri Cozumel 1:00pm-11:00pm

Belize and Roatan don't observe DST, so they are 2 hours behind ship time (EST). Does that mean that we get into Belize at 7am and Roatan at 5am their time??? That seems incredibly early, so I was wondering if that is right.

Grand Cayman and Cozumela are easier as they are only 1 hour behind ship time. Is that right?

All of this time stuff is tempting me to just book excursions through the ship, which I really don't want to do for scuba diving. Help me please!!

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thebird
April 14th, 2004, 03:44 PM
Troublemaker, if Paradise is on eastern time, then it goes as follows: Grand Cayman does not observe DST - it will be an hour behind eastern. Cozumel does observe DST, but is already on central time - it will be an hour behind eastern time, too. SO, yes, gc and coz. will be an hour behind eastern time. Sorry, I don't know about the other 2.

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thebird
April 14th, 2004, 03:47 PM
Oh, and the times you have listed as being in port are on ship time. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...

Sensation 5/15/2004
TroubleMaker
April 14th, 2004, 07:53 PM
thebird,
Thanks for the response. It's really Belize and Roatan that I'm worried about since they are already on central time and I don't believe they observe DST, so that would put them 2 hours behind EST. I'm just worried about getting into those 2 ports at an ungodly hour.

Anyone have experience with this and booking their own excursions in the Western Caribbean during DST?

Days until Paradise
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