Carnival Cruise Line has reached out to visitors booked aboard the January 25, 2025 departure of Carnival Magic with notification that their crusing may have a delayed embarkation. As a consequence, all terminal arrival appointments have been revised.
The impacted cruise is an 8-night Eastern Caribbean crusing with visits scheduled for Amber Cove, San Juan, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas, earlier than the ship returns to Miami, Florida on Sunday, February 2.
“Saturday, January 25, the ship will be returning from a chartered voyage, and we will need some extra time to disembark guests and offload special equipment before accommodating your arrival,” the notification learn. “Consequently, embarkation for your cruise has been revised. Please delay your Terminal Arrival Appointment by two hours.”
Carnival Magic‘s present crusing is the ShipRocked Cruise, a particular occasion that includes greater than 35 completely different rock artists and bands, together with returning performers in addition to these on their first ShipRocked crusing.
The 6-night crusing is full of live shows, meet-and-greets, picture ops, theme nights, and extra, together with all the standard actions and leisure onboard.
The chartered cruise departed PortMiami on Sunday, January 19, with calls to St. Thomas and Half Moon Cay on the itinerary.
The “special equipment” that must be offloaded earlier than the subsequent embarkation can start is probably going additional sound and stage tools used for the varied live shows through the ShipRocked cruise.
Furthermore, the ShipRocked debarkation could also be a bit extra logistically difficult to make sure the onboard artists can depart the ship easily earlier than followers start debarkation.
Because of the delay, visitors on Carnival Magic‘s January 25 departure will now merely transfer their Terminal Arrival Appointments to 2 hours later than deliberate.
For instance, if a visitor initially chosen an appointment of 12:30-1 p.m. to get checked in and board Carnival Magic, now they might want to arrive from 2:30-3 p.m. All visitors should arrive on the cruise terminal no later than 4 p.m.
Carnival Cruise Line can also be advising vacationers that seating is restricted inside the cruise terminal and it isn’t potential to accommodate visitors who arrive forward of their revised appointment instances.
It is crucial to allow sufficient time for visitors from the earlier cruise to clear the cruise terminal and parking areas earlier than arriving vacationers might be welcomed.
At this time, there isn’t any anticipated impression to Carnival Magic‘s January 25 itinerary. All her ports of name are intact and no port instances have been modified.
Even leaving Miami barely later than deliberate is not going to be an issue, as the primary day of the crusing is a day at sea and it is going to be simple for the vessel to make up any misplaced time on her solution to Amber Cove.
Why No Earlier Notification?
While visitors who should now delay their boarding for Carnival Magic by two hours could also be understandably upset, the delay is comparatively minimal. This is very true when in comparison with fog-related delays that could be a number of hours, or might even final a full day as occurs often in ports like Tampa or Jacksonville.
Still, provided that the ShipRocked cruise was deliberate and chartered months in the past, it’s fascinating that Carnival Cruise Line didn’t account for the additional debarkation time prematurely.
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Extra discover would have given vacationers the chance to rearrange for later pre-cruise flights or resort check-outs if essential, or discover another solution to benefit from the time in Miami earlier than boarding the ship.
Personal trace – Bayside Marketplace, simply on the bottom of Port Boulevard subsequent to the cruise terminals, is a superb place to spend a few hours with the Skyview Miami Observation Wheel, native purchasing and eating places, boat excursions, and an enormous sweet retailer to discover.
Whenever visitors do board Carnival Magic, the ship’s practically 1,400 worldwide crew members will probably be ready to supply distinctive service and be sure that everybody aboard has a really magical cruise getaway.
