Serenade OTS Self Assist

We will be returning to Ft Lauderdale on Serenade OTS in mid-December. Has anyone done the self-assist off this ship in this location and had an experience with self-assist. I need to book flights soon and would like to know how long it took to get off the ship and through customs as I know Ft Lauderdale has been a problem with customs in the past.

We did self-assist last year off Serenade at FLL...we got ourselves in line around 7:15am (it was already very long) to wait.

There were some delays due to a medical debarkation, and (we were told) a short delay with customs, but once things got moving we were off pretty quickly.

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At that hour the customs lines were not long. We were off the ship by 8:10am and our car service was already waiting...on our way to MIA for our flight. We arrived there by around 9:45am for an 11:45am flight.

One thing that we used this year when debarking at FLL was the Mobile Passport App. It is only available if you actually have a passport in hand...we downloaded the app and completed our landing 'card' the morning we arrived at the port. Once off the ship we got into a separate line just for mobile passport folks and there was NO ONE else in the line. Straight to the front, through customs and out the door. The regular line was a good 30-45 min wait.

If you need to be off early, self-carry is what you want. There is no way to predict how long customs will take. But...if you're in the beginning of the line...you'll be off early!

I need to book flights soon and would like to know how long it took to get off the ship and through customs as I know Ft Lauderdale has been a problem with customs in the past.

Falling in line, we were done with customs at Port Everglades last month in less than 30 min. We did the regular disembarkation.

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