Luggage

• To make the debarking process easier, Royal Caribbean picks up luggage from each passenger so you don't have to lug it around the ship with you the morning of departure. On the last night of your cruise, spend a few minutes choosing what you'll wear home the next morning and removing your essential items from your luggage. Pack everything else and put your luggage outside your stateroom door before midnight. Keep a small carry-on bag with you to pack the things you're still using and the clothes you're currently wearing before you get off the boat. Your luggage will be waiting for you at baggage claim in your debarkation port.
  
  

On-Board Purchases

• Every Royal Caribbean cruise ship has an on-board liquor store where guests can purchase duty-free liquor to take home. Once you've made your liquor purchase, you are not permitted to take your liquor with you; it is delivered to your stateroom on the last night of your cruise. Carefully check your liquor package to ensure you were delivered the correct items before you debark your cruise ship.
  
  

Morning of Departure

• Royal Caribbean cruise ships dock early in the morning and debarkation occurs between 7 and 8 in the morning on most ships. On the morning of debarkation, you'll want to set your alarm or call for a wake-up call -- instructions on how to do this are located on each stateroom's phone system. Wake up with enough time to get yourself and your family dressed and ready to go and to eat breakfast. The main dining room and room service are both open for breakfast beginning early.
  
  

Debarkation

• Once you're dressed and ready to go, have eaten your breakfast and double-checked that you've left nothing behind in your stateroom, it is time to debark. On the final night of your cruise, your stateroom attendant will have left luggage tags in your room to place on your luggage, which is the color you will follow when instructed to debark your cruise. Your ship captain will begin announcing colors over the loudspeaker informing passengers which public area you need to go to wait to debark. Take note of your color, the public area you are instructed to wait in and head in that direction. When it's your turn to debark, your color is called and you will head down the atrium and debark your cruise. Collect your luggage and find your car, bus or other mode of transportation.