Alaska ports what time off ship??

[ready2travel54]

I read somewhere that ships are actually in port earlier than what our port times show. Can you get off the ship earlier??

 

August 7 Skagway 7- 8:30

 

August 10 Juneau 6:30 to 4

Aug 11 Ketchikan 10-6 pm

[vbmom87]

It varies, but don't plan on it. YOu can check the roll calls of the cruises returning from your itinerary and learn what times they were able to get off the ship at each port. In my limited cruising experience, the gangplank usually opened at the time listed as the docking time.

 

For my upcoming cruise I have learned that at one port they were able to disembark early, but at another port they have been getting off up to an hour and a half later than the docking time listed.

[account4fun]

I read somewhere that ships are actually in port earlier than what our port times show. Can you get off the ship earlier??

 

August 7 Skagway 7- 8:30

 

August 10 Juneau 6:30 to 4

Aug 11 Ketchikan 10-6 pm

 

We just got off the Diamond Princess last week and we were usually in port about 20-30 minutes early and were able to get off pretty close to when we were suppose to be docking. We may have just been lucky but either way there were not lines to get off that early. In Ketchikan for example we were grabbing a pastry on our way to Creek St at 9:40. You should be able to tell when your ship is getting close to port and plan from there.

[bbwex]

One thing about most of the stops in Alaska, and definitely with respect to the ports in Southeastern Alaska, they are all very close together. A ship could get to, for instance, Juneau from Skagway in very little time. They really move slowly so they don't arrive too early, but they might well get in early if the port allows them to. That's also part of the equation: how many ships are pulling in and how close together are they in time. On our cruise on HAL last summer, the gangway was always open by the time they said they would be in port -- because they were there earlier and had cleared the ship already. As noted, there can be delays: fog, other ships, etc., etc.

[CruisingGoddess]

We just got off the Diamond Princess last week and we were usually in port about 20-30 minutes early and were able to get off pretty close to when we were suppose to be docking. We may have just been lucky but either way there were not lines to get off that early. In Ketchikan for example we were grabbing a pastry on our way to Creek St at 9:40. You should be able to tell when your ship is getting close to port and plan from there.

 

This was generally our experience during our cruise as well. We were pretty much walking off the ship at the time we were due to arrive but generally, if it says you will arrive at 9 am, you'll be able to get off the ship between 9-9:30 am.

 

 

Read the detailed review with photos of my Alaska cruise, packing list, and shopping tips:

http://moonprincess.com/travel/category/cruises/alaska-2010/

[Quigley10]

On the Century last month, we arrived 1 hr late into Icy Strait Point due to high seas. We arrived into Juneau and Ketchikan on time and were off the ship quickly, within 15 minutes.

 

The oddest part for us was that we had a Ketchikan all-aboard of 8:15

(8:30 dep), but we set sail at 8:03. I guess everyone got back early? Glad we did, too.