Shore Excursion Times Grand Cayman

[bross2410]

I am looking at a few different Shore Excursions for Grand Cayman, including Stingray City. Through the RCCL Cruise Planner it only has one time listed for these Excursions, in and around 8:00am. Not being early morning people, I'm wondering if as we get closer to the cruise (December 29) they will be adding later times as the early tours fill up?

 

Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

Quick note that we leave Grand Cayman at 3:30pm that day so perhaps they are only offering early excursions?

[Clarea]

Probably not likely as they will want people back on the ship by 3pm.

[blondie from arizona]

Another way to look at it is if you do a Royal excursion you have priority tendering. I think they want to get all their excursions off the ship before they let the rest of the people off. Someone said on another thread that it can take a couple of hours for non-excursion people to be allowed on the tenders. That is just what I read; not personal experience. ;)

[cb at sea]

It will NEVER take a couple hours to get non-excursion folks off the ship! Lordy! It may take 20 mins. or so...that's about it!

[leaveitallbehind]

Another way to look at it is if you do a Royal excursion you have priority tendering. I think they want to get all their excursions off the ship before they let the rest of the people off. Someone said on another thread that it can take a couple of hours for non-excursion people to be allowed on the tenders. That is just what I read; not personal experience. ;)

 

They typically run several tenders continuously and although passengers with priority tendering will be boarded on the first few that depart, the wait for the rest of the passengers is not very long. Certainly not a couple of hours!

[S.A.M.J.R.]

Another way to look at it is if you do a Royal excursion you have priority tendering. I think they want to get all their excursions off the ship before they let the rest of the people off. Someone said on another thread that it can take a couple of hours for non-excursion people to be allowed on the tenders. That is just what I read; not personal experience. ;)

When we did this last month, they had the one tender station for "priority" (I think forward, but not sure), and the other station for everyone else.