How is luggage handled on B2B where disembarkation & embarkation in Athens? Can you leave it aboard?

[MEFIowa]

We're on Riviera B2B as (1) Trieste to Athens and then (2) Athens to Barcelona. So we'll be both disembarking and embarking in Athens on 11/9/2023. Does anyone have experience here on what happens with your luggage? We want to leave it on board. We're got plans to an excursion without it. But we're going from an A3 cabin on the 1st 10 nights to a B3 cabin on the 2nd 10 nights, thus a cabin change.

[LHT28]

the housekeeping  will move your stuff

you will get instructions prior to the end of  the 1st cruise

 

[HilsTas]

On 9/8/2023 at 2:08 AM, MEFIowa said:

We're on Riviera B2B as (1) Trieste to Athens and then (2) Athens to Barcelona. So we'll be both disembarking and embarking in Athens on 11/9/2023. Does anyone have experience here on what happens with your luggage? We want to leave it on board. We're got plans to an excursion without it. But we're going from an A3 cabin on the 1st 10 nights to a B3 cabin on the 2nd 10 nights, thus a cabin change.

We changed cabins in Athens on a B2B on Vista.  And had a full day tour in Athens.  We liaised with our first cruise cabin staff about how to best manage it.  

What ended up happening was that the hanging things were taken to the new cabin on the same hangers for us.  Everything else we just put in the suitcases - pulled stuff out of drawers and plopped it in the suitcases as it came out.   (We had plenty of room to pack this way as the hanging things were out).  The bathroom we did similarly.

When we returned from the tour the suitcases were in the room, hanging things in the wardrobe & we just returned everything to the new drawers.

We also asked friends to keep a bag of things in their safe for the day.

Packing and unpacking turned out to be relatively quick and simple. 

 

[vlthom]

On 9/8/2023 at 2:54 PM, HilsTas said:

We changed cabins in Athens on a B2B on Vista.  And had a full day tour in Athens.  We liaised with our first cruise cabin staff about how to best manage it.  

What ended up happening was that the hanging things were taken to the new cabin on the same hangers for us.  Everything else we just put in the suitcases - pulled stuff out of drawers and plopped it in the suitcases as it came out.   (We had plenty of room to pack this way as the hanging things were out).  The bathroom we did similarly.

When we returned from the tour the suitcases were in the room, hanging things in the wardrobe & we just returned everything to the new drawers.

We also asked friends to keep a bag of things in their safe for the day.

Packing and unpacking turned out to be relatively quick and simple. 

 

We also did a B2B this past June/July, aboard Marina.  We changed cabins and it worked similarly as described above; however, it was not especially well organized nor did we get much in the way of instructions ahead of time.  We inquired about the process with our cabin steward.  We were told that they would clean our new cabin first and then our move would occur.  We could leave hanging clothing as-is and they'd move it.  Everything else needed to be packed up in our suitcases, which they'd also move if we were not present.  But in our case, the keycards were an issue as they did not and could not create the new cards until noon on turnaround day.  I was told that it's usually done a bit earlier than that; however, their equipment wasn't working so they were unable to issue the new cards.  This made our turnaround day a bit awkward to say the least.  But hopefully, it will go more smoothly for you.