Hi, no, not to the date. We bought the „regular“ tourist visa now for about 130 Dollar to make sure we will be able to get off there.
We heard from guests that travelled this cruise in early December that the transit visas will be issued the night before the arrival in Jeddah. On the sea day between Aqaba and Jeddah there were crowds occupying the shore excursion desk trying to fix the excursions and check the status. People reported that many guests bought internet aboard to check the status of their visa application.
As said we did not want to be in that state of limbo and applied for the tourist visa which was issued right away.