Reason for long debarkation was do to the fact that every 90 days or so all non-us resident crew memebers have to renew their work visa's . If anyone was in line at the far end of the terminal as we were you could see the long line of crew members all having their photo and fingerprints being taken.
CCL knew of this and just wasn't telling anyone. But i don't blame them as much as i do the customs agents who didn't prepare for an extra influx of work by not providing extra agents to just handle the crew.
We had a porter who took us and our group of 8 clean through and to a taxi in like 15 minutes after we got off the ship.
The one thing i will fault CCL on is not providing passengers with enough information to let them know it might take a while and to offer some sort of snack for people who hadn't gotten off by at least 11. Some of us are diabetic and had prepared for situations like this but how about those who didn't and people with young kids who don't understand why mommy can't get them something to eat. We didn't get off till 12:45. Lucky for us we drove from La. but it still didn't put us back till 8:30 pm . So much for resting a few more hours before getting up for work the next day.
I would do this cruise again just at another time of year. AND PLEASE CCL drop Jamaica.
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Reason for long debarkation was do to the fact that every 90 days or so all non-us resident crew memebers have to renew their work visa's . If anyone was in line at the far end of the terminal as we were you could see the long line of crew members all having their photo and fingerprints being taken.
CCL knew of this and just wasn't telling anyone. But i don't blame them as much as i do the customs agents who didn't prepare for an extra influx of work by not providing extra agents to just handle the crew.
We had a porter who took us and our group of 8 clean through and to a taxi in like 15 minutes after we got off the ship.
The one thing i will fault CCL on is not providing passengers with enough information to let them know it might take a while and to offer some sort of snack for people who hadn't gotten off by at least 11. Some of us are diabetic and had prepared for situations like this but how about those who didn't and people with young kids who don't understand why mommy can't get them something to eat. We didn't get off till 12:45. Lucky for us we drove from La. but it still didn't put us back till 8:30 pm . So much for resting a few more hours before getting up for work the next day.
I would do this cruise again just at another time of year. AND PLEASE CCL drop Jamaica.