Ship's Time or Local Time while in Roatan

Hey all,

We will be in Roatan a couple of weeks. Can somebody please tell me if the Carnival Legend or Carnival as a whole stays on ship's time or goes to local time in Roatan?

The reason I am asking is because we are staying for very short time. We have an excursion that is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ship will only be in port from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

If they stay on ships time I think we may lose an hour in the excursion.

Thanks

I'm not sure if this helps, but I was just there on Royal, and the ship actually adjusted the time after the first sea day (out of Galveston) on the way down there. We were on local time while in Roatan, and then switched back right before Cozumel (after Belize).

All Carnival ships stay on ship time. The Legend is on Eastern time. If this is a ship excursion then you'll be okay. 9-2 ship time. If it's a private excursion, contact the provider and verify the time as Roatan does not observe DST and they are 2 hours behind EDT.

All of my previous Royal cruises stayed on ship time too. I was very surprised to change for Roatan/Belize. Just something to keep in mind. ;)

This was a pain on the Legend in April. We stayed on Eastern DLS time and that put us on the beach in Cozumel at 7:30 local time. Roatan was the same - very early. In fact we were docked before sun up. DH kept his watch on ship time and I was constantly asking him what time it was.

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ship time is almost all cases

I am surprised about ship time!!!!!

We have only been on one carnival cruise in the southern caribean and I don't remember. Everywhere else we are always on LOCAL time. Our cruise in February will be on NCL so I assume it will be local time.:)

I am surprised about ship time!!!!!

We have only been on one carnival cruise in the southern caribean and I don't remember. Everywhere else we are always on LOCAL time. Our cruise in February will be on NCL so I assume it will be local time.:)

The ship and the ship newsletter/events schedule will let you know when you board. The cruise director announcements will also tell you. But always set your watch to whatever they tell you is ship time, because that's the time the ship will leave port on. And DO NOT use your smart phone as a clock/watch because it will auto shift to local and could be wrong.

If you only have a smartphone as a time piece turn of the clock auto update.