B2B on different cruise lines?

[onebzyldy]

We r considering this. April 21-28 on Princess and then Apr 28-May 4 on Carnival. Can anyone share if they have done this before and how it all went?? Wondering what we would do with ourselves and all of our luggage until we can check in for the next cruise, they are both out of Port Everglades.

Thoughts anyone, please :p

 

Happy Cruising...

DonnaF :D

[Keith1010]

I would disembark the ship in the last group and then slowly make your way over to the other ship and then have the porters take your luggage for that cruise.

 

Keith

[MilliesMom]

What a fun idea. Hope it works out for you.

[onebzyldy]

I would disembark the ship in the last group and then slowly make your way over to the other ship and then have the porters take your luggage for that cruise.

 

Keith

 

I worry that it would be too early to do that :confused:

 

Happy Cruising....

DonnaF :D

[amazinglife]

Lots of people do this. Get off last and you will be one of the first ones on.

[PescadoAmarillo]

We'll be doing this soon. We plan to disembark the Princess ship, which we feel pretty sure will be at Pier 2 or 4 in Port Everglades, in one of the last groups. After claiming our bags, I'm going to wait with the luggage while DH makes a soda run and then returns, and then we'll catch a taxi to the HAL pier and get in line to check in for that cruise. We don't have priority boarding on HAL, so we'll have to wait a bit to board, but it shouldn't be more than an hour or so.

[TracieABD]

Sounds like so much fun!:)

[johnmik1]

We are disembarking Ruby on 1/6 and going over to Emerald.We plan on being last off and then going directly to the other pier.

[onebzyldy]

We'll be doing this soon. We plan to disembark the Princess ship, which we feel pretty sure will be at Pier 2 or 4 in Port Everglades, in one of the last groups. After claiming our bags, I'm going to wait with the luggage while DH makes a soda run and then returns, and then we'll catch a taxi to the HAL pier and get in line to check in for that cruise. We don't have priority boarding on HAL, so we'll have to wait a bit to board, but it shouldn't be more than an hour or so.

 

Will DH take a taxi for the soda run? Great idea! Just thinking of being a copycat now ;) What do you think of this idea. We take a taxi together [with luggage in tow] for the soda run [do you know how close shops r to the terminal?] and have taxi wait and then take us back to the port.

 

Happy Cruising.....

DonnaF :D

[hobo1937]

We will be doing this in early November...Emerald Princess to Celebrity Infinity. Our plan is to get off in one of the later disembarkation groups and take a taxi to the Infinity. I will be happy to post how this goes when we get back.

[onebzyldy]

Please do post your experience from Emerald to Infinity! Have a great time and look forward to hearing from you :)

 

Happy Cruising....

DonnaF :D

[PescadoAmarillo]

Will DH take a taxi for the soda run? Great idea! Just thinking of being a copycat now ;) What do you think of this idea. We take a taxi together [with luggage in tow] for the soda run [do you know how close shops r to the terminal?] and have taxi wait and then take us back to the port.

 

Happy Cruising.....

DonnaF :D

That works too. In fact, in the case of bad weather, that's what we'll do. If your ship is at Pier 2 or 4 (right next to each other), it's about a 5 minute walk to Walgreens, a 10 minute walk to Publix. There is also a Total Wines in the Publix shopping center. The taxi drivers are certainly used to waiting while cruise ship passengers do last minute shopping.

 

We'll be going from the Emerald to the Noordam.

[onebzyldy]

That sounds great!

I had no idea that shopping was that close to the port :o

Thanx for sharing!

Cruises r booked, now it's a waiting game ;)

 

Happy Cruising....

DonnaF :D

[ashhill]

That works too. In fact, in the case of bad weather, that's what we'll do. If your ship is at Pier 2 or 4 (right next to each other), it's about a 5 minute walk to Walgreens, a 10 minute walk to Publix. There is also a Total Wines in the Publix shopping center. The taxi drivers are certainly used to waiting while cruise ship passengers do last minute shopping.

 

We'll be going from the Emerald to the Noordam.

 

 

We know where Walgreens is.can you give me directions to Publix from Walgreens as we are cruising next March

 

Thanks

[PescadoAmarillo]

On the south side of 17th St. west of Walgreens in the Harbor Shops shopping center. Walk about 5 minutes past Walgreens on the same side of 17th St, turn left into the shopping center just before the Embassy Suites.

[RoePost]

We did this last year in Ft Lauderdale...Ruby Princess to Allure...this year we are doing Grand Princess to Oasis..no problem at all...Just grab a cab and ask them to drive you to the next pier....You may spend some time waiting to board the ship..but you can people watch!

[ashhill]

On the south side of 17th St. west of Walgreens in the Harbor Shops shopping center. Walk about 5 minutes past Walgreens on the same side of 17th St, turn left into the shopping center just before the Embassy Suites.

 

 

Many thanks for the prompt reply.Are there many shops in the center? We fly to Miami the day before and overnight near the airport and are led to believe no shops near our hotel.hotel is the Intercontinental at Doral

 

Anyone out there have any info about shops/restaraunts near this hotel

 

Thanks in advance

[dorisis]

Depending on how far apart the piers are and how much walking with luggage you want to do..A taxi might be best and easiest.

 

~Doris~

[Chuck1j]

We have done this before in Ft Lauderdale. Try to be last off not really that important but helps out some. Collect your bags, get a taxi over to your next ship. They will have the luggage bins setup for boarding, check with a baggage handler, make sure you tip him. Get back in the Taxi, go do what ever you want and return when your ready to board, we usually wait for the crowds to dissipate so we get back around 3. Your luggage should be waiting for your in your cabin, because you dropped it off early. We usually hang out at a local Hotel have lunch, then walk over to the Shopping center and take a taxi back to the ship.:cool:

[koolforkatz]

We did that in March. We usually like to take a 14 day cruise but had a freebie cruise credit from Carnival we had to use. Our first cruise was an 8 nighter on Carnival. We dragged our heels as long as we could getting off that ship and then took a cab over to where the Celebrity Solstice was docked. It wasn't cheap considering the distance was practically walkable, but there's some type of flat fee they have to charge. We waited in line there for maybe only abt 30-40 minutes before they were ready to start letting people come through security, etc. Got on the Solstice by about 11.30. So really we were only standing around doing nothing for a short period of time. It worked out really well for us and I would do it again.

[macmax]

Hi Donna,

We're doing a 2 ship B2B (Ruby to Westerdam) in November and are planning to take a taxi over to HAL, drop of our luggage (keeping our carry-on with us)

and then have the taxi drive us up to the Galleria Mall for some shopping. We will then take a cab back to the ship around noon.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

We have don it ..