Embarking question

In early December 2007 I boarded the Carnival Liberty in Fort
Lauderdale. The boarding was almost three hours in line. I have
taken several cruises but never left from Fort Lauderdale or had this
problem before. Is this the usual from Florida? If so, I don't want
to leave from there again.
TIA for your help,
Ellie

Went on Emerald Princess out of Port Everglades (Ft. Lauderdale) also in
December (16th). While our line wasn't 3 hours long it did take about 1
hour from entry into the waiting line to actually getting on the ship.

I have taken other cruises out of Pt. Everglades and this was the longest
wait I have experienced out of over 20 cruises total, all lines and all
ports.

IMHO Miami and Cape Canaveral seem to have their acts together better than
Pt. Everglades for passenger accommodations and speeding the passengers
through to the ship.
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In early December 2007 I boarded the Carnival Liberty in Fort
Lauderdale. The boarding was almost three hours in line. I have
taken several cruises but never left from Fort Lauderdale or had this
problem before. Is this the usual from Florida? If so, I don't want
to leave from there again.
TIA for your help,
Ellie

Ellie:
We have not found this to be the usual case for boardingin
FT.LAUDERDALE,only on CARNIVAL LIBERTY in feb.2007,Carnival has a very
bad way of handling boarding practices. Went on
Princess,and it took us only a matter of 15-20 minuets til we were on
board and having lunch on the lido deck.
surfer e 2468


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In early December 2007 I boarded the Carnival Liberty in Fort
Lauderdale. The boarding was almost three hours in line. I have
taken several cruises but never left from Fort Lauderdale or had this
problem before. Is this the usual from Florida? If so, I don't want
to leave from there again.
TIA for your help,
Ellie


I don't know if this is normal for Carnival or not. We just came back
from the Emerald Princess and had no lines to speak of. We got to the
pier about 11:15AM, had to wait a short while to checkin and a short
while for them to start boarding. We had seats while we waited and were
on the ship by 12 noon.

sue

We were on Carnival last year in Feb.out of Ft. Lauderdale. We got to the
port at 11:30 and basically walked right in. There were no lines anywhere.
I checked the time when we sat down for lunch and it was 12:00. We are
going again in March. I'll give you an update :)

Philip visualizing the snow as water.

From my recent experiences, there's no predicting. It seems that a lot of
the long delays are caused by the staff "sanitizing" the ship after a cruise
with a lot of flu, Norwalk, etc. before allowing the next group of pax to
board.

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In early December 2007 I boarded the Carnival Liberty in Fort
Lauderdale. The boarding was almost three hours in line. I have
taken several cruises but never left from Fort Lauderdale or had this
problem before. Is this the usual from Florida? If so, I don't want
to leave from there again.
TIA for your help,
Ellie

Ellie, I boarded the Liberty on Dec. 8, 2007 (8 Day Eastern Caribbean
Sailing)..
When we got to the terminal about 11:30 AM the line was outside the
terminal. I had VIP boarding so I went directly to the Check-In desk.
We had a separate line for security and Check-In. My boarding took
about 10 mins. My nephew and his fiance also went but they were not
VIP. They had to stand in the long line outside the terminal. We
waited for them at the lobby bar just as you walked onto the Liberty.
They boarded about 20 mins after us. I was amazed at how quickly that
line moved and how fast they got aboard. What time did you get to the
terminal?

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In early December 2007 I boarded the Carnival Liberty in Fort
Lauderdale. The boarding was almost three hours in line. I have
taken several cruises but never left from Fort Lauderdale or had this
problem before. Is this the usual from Florida? If so, I don't want
to leave from there again.
TIA for your help,
Ellie

What time did you arrive? Our last two cruises out of Galveston, one
on Carnival and one on RCI, we arrived at the port about 11:45 and
were on the ship in 20 minutes. We talked to people on the Rhapsody
who arrived around 2:00 and it took them close to 90 minutes. So it
depends on when you arrive.
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