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This photo shows why we were over 3 hours delayed getting off the ship to start our excursion. Dockside doors were only available on deck 3, which due to extreme low tide was below the dock! And deck 7, which was way too high; resulting in a single, narrow, dangerous ramp that slowed exiting to a trickle.

Worse, we stood or sat around on various crowded decks for most of that time waiting for any reliable word on what was happening. It wasn't until the tide returned and the ship rose to make deck 3 doors usable again, that we could leave. Carnival did not handle this well.

B1_LadderToDock.JPG (283 Kb) (under photos/11/1201-17_CarnivalCruise/1210_CostaRica/)

By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Mar 9 14:33:54 MDT 2025)