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Originally Posted by EastCoastDawg
I have been on over 50 cruises and on only four did people get left behind. The captain will usually go out of his way to get everyone back on board or else the cruise line risks bad publicity.
If you are likely to be late you should call the emergency number and give an estimate of your arrival time. Often, the itinerary will have enough slack built in to allow the captain to delay departure for an hour, although tides etc. can negate this.
With the amount of money I have saved by going private rather on ship's tours I could easily finance getting to the next port of call many times over.
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I asked our private guide what would happen if we missed the ship and he said he would drive us to the next port. Now given this was in Rome and our next port was Milan it would have meant driving through Tuscany I sort of wished he would have missed the ship. He also said he had never missed a ship in his 10 years as a guide.
What is not mentioned here is the people were over an hour and 30 minutes late.