10:50 AM MIA flight after our Oasis Cruise, is it doable?

[bs83703]

We are looking at taking the Voyager out of New Orleans, December 17, 2011 following our Oasis cruise which docks in Fort Lauderdale that day. The only nonstop in the morning is at 10:50 AM out of Miami. Is that flight doable?

 

Thanks

[paul929207]

If the ship docks at 7am, and everything is perfect and you are the first one off the ship, you will probably make it. If anything is less than perfect, you will miss the flight and spend the day in MIA trying to get on a fully booked flight.

 

Avoid the stress and take a later flight.

[Keith1010]

I agree with Paul.

 

Have you looked to see if there is a non stop flight out of Miami in the afternoon?

 

Keith

[bs83703]

Yes, but too late to catch the Voyager on the same day, Dec 17th

[Keith1010]

Yes, but too late to catch the Voyager on the same day, Dec 17th

 

I would not take the risk.

 

First you have the issue of making the Fort Lauderdale Flight.

 

The second risk is that you make the airport but the flight is cancelled or delayed and you miss the cruise. How about a back to back cruise in Fort Lauderdale or in Miami where no flight would be needed.

 

Keith

[CruiserBruce]

To be honest, this is crazy tight. To get from Port Everglades to MIA- a 40-45 minute drive- get checked in, hoping bags make it to New Orleans, and get to your next ship....

 

Crazy.

 

Oh... and to try to do this in winter, when anything can cause the flight schedules to go out the window?

[Keith1010]

Better to do a back to back in Fort Lauderdale or Miami.

 

Keith

[paul929207]

If you attempt this, be sure you have your passport, You will need it to fly from New Orleans to the first port.

[greatam]

I would not take the risk.

 

First you have the issue of making the Fort Lauderdale Flight.

 

Keith

 

I may be reading this wrong but what I am reading is a cruise that ends in Fort Lauderdale and a SAME DAY flight out of MIA at 10:50AM. NO HOW, NO WAY will you make that.

 

The trip between FLL and MIA can EASILY take 45 minutes. Getting through MIA can EASILY take 1.5 hours with check in and security. You have now used about 2.5 hours JUST to get to the airport and get checked in. Do you REALLY want to take a chance of getting off the ship EXACTLY at 7AM (probably won't happen), make your way through Customs/Immigration, get in a taxi/car service, get to a VERY full, zoo like airport like MIA and try to make a flight with just slightly over an hour to allow for ANY and all glitches.

 

VERY bad idea-as Keith 1010 suggested, find a B2B out of MIA or FLL WITHOUT a flight.

[Globaliser]

We are looking at taking the Voyager out of New Orleans, December 17, 2011 following our Oasis cruise which docks in Fort Lauderdale that day.

It's a 4.30 pm departure from New Orleans.

 

This entire idea, IMHO, is not feasible unless you have a private jet to take you from Florida to New Orleans.

[ducklite]

Not to mention that on the NOLA side you've got to plan on 30 minutes to claim bags and a taxi ride that could take up to 45 minutes. Add in the 1.5 hours flight time between them.

 

This is a plan destined to separate a fool and his money.

 

If you want to do a b2b, find another cruise out of MIA or FLL. Anything else is a really bad idea.

 

And hope to heck that there's no delay with your ship getting into port. Our second cruise we were delayed by several hours getting back into port, and even the first person off the ship wasn't going to make a flight that left before 1:00pm.

[CruiserBruce]

OP posted same question over on RCCL board and hasn't gotten any positive support. Be very interested to see how this works out.