Reply To: JoCo Cruise Crazy 3: Get excited and talk about things!
@dndgirl – take the later flight! Of course, I’m saying this purely for selfish reasons because I’m guessing the later flight is the 3:45pm flight that I’m taking (I live in Alameda). Here’s the rationale that I went through when I was trying to decide between the flights:
- RCI’s Airboat w/MCO transfer is for passengers with flights after 1pm so they must believe it’s possible to get make a 1pm flight. Subtract the 30 minutes airboat ride and it means a 12:30pm flight should be possible as well.
- Then again, the folks on the RCI shore excursions get priority and with 3 ships arriving in Port Canaveral on 2/17 (Carnival Sensation [2640 passenger capacity] gets in at 7am & Disney Dream [4000 passenger capacity] arrives at 7:30am), maybe customs and leaving the port may take longer so let’s double the usual 45 minute buffer to 90 minutes.
- Best case scenario – customs = 30 minutes, shuttle takes 15 minutes to fill up, drive to airport + correct terminal = 55 minutes, line to drop off bags = 20 minutes, security + walk to gate = 30 minutes => 2 1/2 hours, add 90 minutes for buffer = leave ship by 8:30am… which means I’ll have to be up by 7am Eastern (I must eat breakfast in order to function)… which is 4am Pacific on my very last day of vacation… hmm, pass.
To be fair, I think you would most likely be able to make the 12:30pm
flight just fine. Personally, I hate having to rush about when I’m on vacation plus putting myself
in a position to worry about what may be an unnecessarily stressful situation that may never come to pass will just make me grouchy.
Now I know who @Lissa is on CruiseCritic! I have yet to post to the Roll Call because I always seem to skip out on the events that I say I will attend due to last minute social anxiety and then I just feel like a loser who has to hide from the CC folks for the rest of the cruise. I will probably sign up for the M&M once we get the RCI reservation numbers.