The Importance of adding Emergency Phone #'s

Most cruise lines, air lines and tour operators will ask for an emergency phone # so that they can add it to the reservation.

For our cruise on the Explorer of the Seas, we put down my son's cell phone # just in case there was an emergency on board and someone needed to be contacted.

Due to the bad weather, the ship was delayed in returning to port so our cruise started embarkation later than usual. Royal Caribbean had an entire staff of people calling the emergency phone #'s listed on the guest registration forms to alert everyone about this delay.

They probably left messages at the travel agencies as well but some might have been closed since it was a weekend.

Another lesson to be learned here, please put down an emergency phone # on all your reservtions. You never know if you will need to get a phone call from the travel supplier about a change in flight, time, location, etc.