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"While I agree that the question of 'to wait or not to wait' is entirely up to the Captain, I can tell you that I have been on a tardy ship's tour where the ship DID wait for us. It was on Equinox, several years ago. We had a port day in Tortuga (BVI) and we took the ship's tour over to Jost Van Dyke. There was some sort of time mix-up between the ship and the tour-boat crew, and we ended up returning nearly an hour late. The folks from the Shorex Desk were waiting on the pier, when we docked. They escorted us directly onboard the ship -- pulling the gang-way up, behind us.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tSo yeah -- I do book my own shore excursions, for the most part. But if a tour involves taking a bus into the middle of the jungle, or taking a boat to another island -- I'm definitely going with the ship's tours.\n "
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