socaintexas
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Can someone walk me through what to expect? Is it is congested as it sounds like it is in Port Canaveral?
Can someone walk me through what to expect? Is it is congested as it sounds like it is in Port Canaveral?
I think the Galveston terminal is much more congested than PC.Can someone walk me through what to expect? Is it is congested as it sounds like it is in Port Canaveral?
In January this year, on embarkation morning I woke up and looked at the Port of Galveston web cam and was very surprised to see that the Wonder was still in the process of docking (around 8 am). There was a fog delaying all ships getting into port, which was surprising since it looked like a clear, sunny, beautiful day. Then I got an email from DCL asking us (I assume everyone) to delay arrival to the port by two hours (which was a much shorter delay than the prior cruise experienced). So we waited until 12:30 to get our cab to the port - wasn't a very long drive and when we got there we pretty much just walked into the building, through security, up to the Platinum / Concierge check in station and then onto the ship (probably around 1). Was really easy. And it looked like they had started boarding an hour before we got there.
I guess that we didn't really have to wait two hours.
And I wanted to give you a heads up about the very real possibility of a fog delay out of Galveston. I think every season DCL has been there, there have been many fog delays.
Can someone walk me through what to expect? Is it is congested as it sounds like it is in Port Canaveral?
Can someone walk me through what to expect? Is it is congested as it sounds like it is in Port Canaveral?
It won't be for you.....unless your on the Panama cruise. There will be very few platinum cruisers. I think we were the only ones on our cruise last year. Most cruisers will be first time cruisers.Can someone walk me through what to expect? Is it is congested as it sounds like it is in Port Canaveral?
@socaintexas - what cruise are you on? It would be neat if we were on the same one again.
It won't be for you.....unless your on the Panama cruise. There will be very few platinum cruisers. I think we were the only ones on our cruise last year. Most cruisers will be first time cruisers.
We are heading out November 10th.
How about you?
In January this year, on embarkation morning I woke up and looked at the Port of Galveston web cam and was very surprised to see that the Wonder was still in the process of docking (around 8 am). There was a fog delaying all ships getting into port, which was surprising since it looked like a clear, sunny, beautiful day. Then I got an email from DCL asking us (I assume everyone) to delay arrival to the port by two hours (which was a much shorter delay than the prior cruise experienced). So we waited until 12:30 to get our cab to the port - wasn't a very long drive and when we got there we pretty much just walked into the building, through security, up to the Platinum / Concierge check in station and then onto the ship (probably around 1). Was really easy. And it looked like they had started boarding an hour before we got there.
I guess that we didn't really have to wait two hours.
And I wanted to give you a heads up about the very real possibility of a fog delay out of Galveston. I think every season DCL has been there, there have been many fog delays.
The Spot is my favorite restaurant in Galveston. It is right across from the seawall.We had a huge fog delay in January of this year out of Galveston. We did not dock until 2 pm and it was 4 pm before we were off the ship. We had to wait offshore a few miles for hours before being able to dock. We just made our 6 pm flight by the skin of our teeth (and we were worried we had too much time to kill at the airport!)
MJ