How Day in Port works
Four inputs, one honest number, and a plan built around it. Here is what happens between opening Day in Port and stepping off the ship with a plan you actually trust.
Four steps, start to finish
Tell us your ship, your port, and your arrival and all-aboard times. That is the only information the calculator needs to start — no account, no commitment.
We compute your real usable time: disembarkation, tender or immigration queues where they apply, the transfer to the centre, and a safe return buffer are all subtracted from the nominal window. What is left is time you can actually spend ashore, not time on paper.
You get a safe itinerary built for that window, with alternatives if you would rather see more or take it slower — then you go ashore with a return time you have already protected, instead of one you are calculating in your head between coffee stops.
The Port Time Calculator
This is the core of the tool. It starts from your ship’s nominal port hours and subtracts every real-world cost in between: how long it typically takes to get off the ship at that terminal, whether it is a tender port and how long that queue usually runs, immigration where it applies, and the time to reach the centre or your first stop.
The result is a usable-time window, not a promise — a number built from data about that specific port and terminal, not a rule of thumb applied everywhere.
The Safe Return Buffer
Missing the ship is rare, but it happens to people who trusted the nominal schedule instead of the real one. The Safe Return Buffer works backward from your all-aboard time and tells you the latest moment to leave each stop on your plan, with margin for traffic, transport delays and one more queue at the terminal.
It is deliberately conservative on purpose. The buffer exists so a delayed bus or a longer line does not turn into a missed departure.
The Miss-the-Ship Risk Score
Some plans carry more risk than others: a long transfer, a single road in and out of town, unreliable local transport, a tight connection between two stops. The risk score flags that before you commit to the plan, not after you are already two hours from the port.
It is a signal, not a verdict. A higher score usually just means build in more margin, or pick the guided option that removes the uncertainty.