Confused by Ship time/Belize time

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palmtre2

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Anyone taken the cavetubing excursion with X-Stream??? My confirmation says that Belize time is the same as US Mountain time. What time is the ship on???? I've read several posts about others using X-stream and there doesn't seem to be a problem. Is it true that Carnival puts those that have booked excursions through them ahead for debarking????
 
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Natalia

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I cant be certain on this, but I think the times I have sailed, the ship changes its time to meet that of the local time in port. However, I have also read from other posters here that this is not always the case, some ships stay on the time zone from where they originally depart from. I would call Carnival and ask them how they handle that issue. Another thing Ive apparently been very lucky with is getting off the ship in a timely manner. Many say that in places like Grand Cayman where you tender, that the ships do in fact take passengers off who book tours through the ship frist. Others who book independent tours get stuck with the later tenders, some missing their tours because of it. I would go post a thread in the Carnival section of the board, and see what others on the same ship or cruise line experienced in regards to the tendering in Belize.



Post Edited (03-04-04 14:21)
 
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francia10

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Hello! We went to Belize last week on the Carnival Glory. We stayed on ship time, which was an hour different. We took a snorkel tour and the boat left right from the ship (no need to tender into town or anything).
 
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Raven

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We were on the Carnival Legend in early February and stopped in Belize. The ship time was kept on EST while Belize was one hour earlier so that would be Central Standard Time (CST). Yes, Carnival does load up the early tenders with those who have booked excursions thru them but, if you show up at the location where those excursions are waiting to be called for loading onto the tenders and explain to one of the ship personnel that you have an independent tour that you need to get to, then you will have no problem getting off fine. We were told to do this at the excursion desk, so they are used to it. We did that and they put us on with a Carnival excursion group and we made it in plenty of time. We were meeting X-Stream for the cave tubing excursion.

Our ship arrived at 8 a.m. and left at 4 p.m. with the last tender leaving shore at 3:30 pm, ship time (EST), so we had until 2:30 p.m. Belize time to catch the last tender. We made sure the X-Stream guides were aware of this and we made it back with a whole 15 minutes to spare...lol. :grin The only reason that the timing was even that close was because most of the 12 people on our mini-bus elected to have a meal at the open-air cafe at the cave area so that slowed us down - our own fault. Great food though :grin
 
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hkolln

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I also am booked with Xstream....

On our last 2 Carnival cruises (Triumph and Sensation) the ship stayed on EST (port of departure time) therefore you have to remember Belize is 1 hour behind that...so if the brochure states you are porting at say 7am, it will be 6am Belize time....

Ours ports at 7:30am so it will be 6:30am belize time and our tour doesn't get picked up til 7:50am and leaves at 8am so we will have plenty of time to get to the place of pickup.
 
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Chiquita

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I think it depends on when you are going. I just checked my confirmation from December and it said "same as central US time". If you are going after the time change, "spring ahead":) then they will be an hour later(which would be the same as mountain, or CST instead of CDS) because I think they are like the Cayman Islands , they don't change for the time change.

I would personally go http://www.belizecruiseexcursions.com/CaveTubingBelize.htm

and ask them. They have the live help thing and they can tell you immidiately. Gotta love technology as I have not patience what so ever:)
 
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