A genuine question here. Can anyone tell me why you have to register with reception, sorry guest services, if you plan to carry your luggage off the ship at the end of the cruise?
All cruise ships want you off asap so they can get ready for the next lot of passengers, so why make a big deal if someone is prepared to get off themselves? Are they really ever going to insist you can't leave? I don't think so.
Holland America Line was the last ship I was on where it was "a must", but they all do it. I was given this slip (at least it says disembarkation and not the awful de'bark the Americans usually use), which had to be shown at the gangway as I left.
Guess what? None of the crew at the gangway on Eurodam was in the slightest bit interested that I was leaving the ship and certainly no one asked to see the piece of paper. So it can join the pile of others I have at home (that is a joke - I'm really not that sad!).
Jane Archer
