First night dinner with 8:30 embarkation

[mominlaw]

We leave San Juan at 8:30 on our first night of RC cruise, which is the same time as the dinner we chose. What happens on the first night? Don't want to miss leaving the port!

[cruiserking]

We leave San Juan at 8:30 on our first night of RC cruise, which is the same time as the dinner we chose. What happens on the first night? Don't want to miss leaving the port!

 

 

You can just skip your first night's dinner in the Main Dining Room and grab a bite to eat at the Lido instead.

 

Jonathan

[IslandCruiser87]

We leave San Juan at 8:30 on our first night of RC cruise, which is the same time as the dinner we chose. What happens on the first night? Don't want to miss leaving the port!

 

When we were onboard RC Adventure of the Seas they moved 2nd seating to 9pm for the 1st night and then moved back to 8:30pm for the rest of the week.

[Keith1010]

You will still board the ship early that day like you would with a cruise leaving at 5:00 PM and you will still have dinner at your regular time on most ships I am familiar with.

 

Keith

[cb at sea]

They generally re-arrange the dining times on the 1st night.

[griffy116]

We had early lunch when we boarded and then we went to MDR for dinner. They Compass tells you that dinner time is adjusted for the first night. We wanted to eat in the MDR to meet our waiter!!! This is the second cruise where we left the dock at a later time and both times, the dining times were adjusted.

[paul929207]

Don't know about RCL, but several times on Princess they have had open seating for TD on the first night when we were either sailing late or overnighting

[squierjosh]

We had room service while we unpacked our stuff when we left from PR.

[Jimnbigd]

For some reason, "leaving the port" is not a big a deal as it used to be. I remember there used to be partying on the Lido deck. Now, not so much. Usually I look out and realize "We're moving." In other words, don't expect a big celebration on departure. If it still daylight, you'll be able to watch from the dining room.

[squierjosh]

Our last cruise out of Miami was kind of a big deal. The ship had to cruise all the way down the port and turn around near downtown. 30 minutes later, we were back to where we started, just facing the other way. So that was kind of cool, leaving at night with a view of downtown Miami.

 

For some reason, "leaving the port" is not a big a deal as it used to be. I remember there used to be partying on the Lido deck. Now, not so much. Usually I look out and realize "We're moving." In other words, don't expect a big celebration on departure. If it still daylight, you'll be able to watch from the dining room.

[deladane]

Does anyone know how Celebrity handles 8:30 departures? I'll be sailing from San Juan and we leave at 8:30, which is my MDR dinner time. Also, is the sail party really that big a deal if it's probably going to be dark outside when we leave anyway? (Considering I sail the weekend after we change the clocks back haha)

[Buffalo_Soldier]

Something I didn't even think about, our cruise leaves San Juan at 11 PM but I'm guessing we can still eat onboard. We elected to have open dinners (as we live on the West Coast so we didn't want to eat at 4PM.

[Cuizer2]

We leave San Juan at 8:30 on our first night of RC cruise, which is the same time as the dinner we chose. What happens on the first night? Don't want to miss leaving the port!

 

Then you better ask your waiter for dinner to go.

[Krazy Kruizers]

One time we left San Juan at 11 PM. Dinner times didn't change. The majority of the people were already on the ship by 3 PM.

 

For an 8:30 departure - I would suggest that you get something to eat in the Lido before that sailing time -- late afternoon lunch or snack.