What are the procedures for a b/b on Celebrity??

[GIZMO81]

Do they make you get off if you have the same cabin?:cool:

[wonderpig]

Do they make you get off if you have the same cabin?:cool:

 

Ok, i'm gonna ask....what's a b/b??

[Underwatr]

Back to back, I think.

[Mary Ellen]

It depends upon the port. If turnaround day is in the US, yes CPB requires passengers doing b2b cruises disembark and the ship 'zero out' before they are allowed back on board. Of course you can spend the day ashore if you wish.

 

If in Europe, you may stay onboard.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Back-to-back cruises are wonderful. We have done quite a few of them on various cruise lines. In fact -- our first cruises were back-to-back.

Looking at your count down clocks, it appears that your cruise is in Europe. So -- no -- you do not have to get off the ship to go through immigration. You can do whatever you want on that "Intransit" day.

[varoo]

Sometime early in the cruise all passengers will receive a form asking for your plans for disembarkation day. You just check off that you are remaining aboard for the next cruise and turn in the form.

 

Then on the night before disembarkation, you will receive instructions in your cabin for the procedure to be follwed the next day. Sometimes they give you your new seapass card for the next cruise that night, and other times you don't get it until the next day. It really doesn't matter either way.

 

The instructions may or may not ask you to meet together with all the other back-to-back people the next morning.

The procedure varies by port, but they will always let you know if there is anything special you are expected to do.

 

They usually give you a transit pass that allows you to come and go freely on the turnaround day so you can reboard the ship without needing to wait in line with the new passengers who are checking in for the first time.

[Lsimon]

We did a b2b cruise on Celebrity from the Fort Lauderdale port.

 

We had our choice of getting off the ship first thing in the morning or staying on board on turnaround day.

 

If you wanted to get off you could do so anytime during the general disembarkation but could not reboard until the general embarkation had begun. You were also given an in-transit pass so you could easily bypass the check-in area and related lines on your return.

 

If you elected to stay on board then you needed to report to a meeting room towards the end of the general disembarkation period. As the last disembarking passengers left the ship all of the b2b passengers remaining on board were escorted off the ship as a group to pass through customs & immigration and then back onto the ship.

 

I understand procedures very a bit by port but that at all US ports you need to clear customs and immigration at some point. We've never done a b2b in Europe but I understand there is no such requirement on cruises that start and end in Europe and no need to get off the ship at all there in most cases.

[sail7seas]

We've done many back-to-back cruises on HAL and every time our turnaround day is a U.S. port, we must leave the ship and clear Immigration. We cannot reboard until the ship has zeroed down which means that everyone who is supposed to be leaving has done so.

 

That is usuall a relative short wait of under an hour.