Missing Your Cruise Ship

As each passenger boards their cruise card is scanned providing the data required to do a passenger count.

Missing your cruise ship. Missing your cruise ships departure can be very costly. If you find yourself stranded you should first find a port assistant who can help you get in contact with the ship. If you are physically at the dock find someone from your cruise line and let them know what hap.

So while missing the ship in port will be inconvenient and disruptive to your cruiseand VERY expensiveits not the Worst Thing That Could Happen in your Life. Its pretty common on cruise ships at just about every port of call. Imagine having to buy a one-way ticket to Ocho Rios Jamaica for 4 members of your family.

The names of the missing passengers are announced over the. It IS just one more reason to have Travel Insurance though. The procedure is the same as if you miss your cruise ship in a port of call.

Miss your ship in South America Asia Australia or the Caribbean and. Inform the cruise of your decision to join the next port or to go home. Travel insurance may or may not cover flights if you miss the ship due to your own negligence.

What if the next port at which you can board is the cruise lines private Bahamian island with no nearby airport. If you miss the ship youll have to either meet it in a subsequent port of call or call it a wash and head home. After just missing the Norwegian Sky by seconds in Nassau Bahamas the man is filmed running down the long pier to try to get the ship to come back.

Every day I spend in port whether scuba diving in Australia or sky diving in Africa is marred by the constant nagging fear that I will miss the ship. Arrange your trip to join the ship in the next port of call. Your cruise line travel agent or travel insurance provider might be able to help.