Don't cut it to close on cruise embarkation day

Описание: Daniel Kline and Dennis Post discuss almost missing their Carnival Celebration cruise.

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Daniel Kline: Hello there, Cruisers. I am Dan Kline, Editor-in-Chief of Travel Host and TheStreet. Next to me is Dennis Post.

He is my travel agent partner from Postcard Travel Planning. We are on, just barely on, Carnival Celebration. So we did something yesterday that we recommend against.

Now, kind of, it couldn’t be avoided. Dennis picked me up at Port Canaveral. I was on Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas.

We’ll talk about that in another video. We had to get all the way to Miami, but we wanted to make a little stop, visit my house, which is about an hour and a half from Port Canaveral, and we decided we would go get some lunch.

What was the mistake we made, Dennis?

Dennis Post: Stopping at Panera.

Kline: Yeah, so here’s the problem.

Carnival Celebration was leaving at 3:30. Decks up at 2:30. We were driving a rental car Dennis had to return, and what you can’t predict in Miami is what traffic is going to be like.

So we hit this wall of absolute traffic. We’re looking at the minutes ticked by, and we’re literally going through, I’m Googling, “What happens if you leave your rental car in a parking garage?”

Because, you know, we were going to call Avis and say, hey, we need to leave our car for eight more days, and we were debating, do we tell the people traveling with us, just go on without us?

I got off, got on the ship at about 1:45. Dennis, you made it by what, 10 minutes?

Post: Yeah, 10, 15 minutes. We had to go drop it off in downtown Miami, not to mention traffic getting out of the port in downtown Miami. It’s only two miles, less than two miles from the port, but the traffic was atrocious.

Kline: So the lesson here, this has nothing to do with Carnival, Royal Caribbean, any specific cruise line. No matter what cruise you’re on, be close to the port a couple hours before you have to be there. Go have breakfast, go have a cup of coffee at a Starbucks.

Now again, it is very difficult to get from Port Canaveral to Miami on different cruise lines. There’s no transfers for that. My only real option was an expensive Uber or a tennis, but we should have figured out, maybe stop by the house and say hello.

Don’t spend about 45 minutes getting some breakfast. That almost caused us to miss the ship.

I am Dan Kline. He’s Dennis Post. Come cruise with us soon.

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