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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

<blockquote data-quote="Raven" data-source="post: 727755">We were on the Carnival Legend in early February and stopped in Belize.&nbsp; The ship time was kept on EST while Belize was one hour earlier so that would be Central Standard Time (CST).&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; We were told to do this at the excursion desk, so they are used to it.&nbsp; We did that and they put us on with a Carnival excursion group and we made it in plenty of time.&nbsp; We were meeting X-Stream for the cave tubing excursion.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; We made sure the X-Stream guides were aware of this and we made it back with a whole 15 minutes to spare...lol.&nbsp; :grin&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Great food though :grin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven, post: 727755"] 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 [/QUOTE]