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Six usable hours, one hard deadline, and your bags in the vehicle.
A Seattle turnaround gives you six or seven hours between disembarkation and all-aboard. We build the day backwards from the time your cruise line set, subtract an hour for getting back aboard, and only then decide what fits. That order matters more than anything else on this page.
What actually fits
Hours ashore, and what they honestly buy.
| You have | From | What fits |
|---|---|---|
| 4 hours ashore | Pier 66 | The city loop, or the Market plus the Locks. Nothing out of town. |
| 6 hours ashore | Pier 66 or 91 | Snoqualmie Falls and back, or the full city loop with time to eat. |
| 8 hours ashore | Either pier | Boeing and Mukilteo, Woodinville, or Bainbridge with the ferry both ways. |
| Post-cruise, flight that evening | Either pier | A full day with your bags aboard, finishing at Sea-Tac rather than the pier. |
Mount Rainier is not on this table on purpose. It needs about eleven usable hours. We will not sell it to you as a turnaround day.
Work out your own hours — the same arithmetic, run on your ship's actual times.
The two terminals
Pier 91 and Pier 66 are not the same day.
Pickup point
Pickup pointNot sure which is yours? The 2026 ship list gives the terminal for every ship sailing from Seattle this season, straight from the Port's schedule.
Port Valet is free, and most passengers have never heard of it
On most Seattle sailings you can check your bags straight through from the ship to your airline, and collect them at your destination. It is free, it needs a same-day departing flight, and you sign up before you disembark — with your cruise line, not with us.
We mention it because it changes what your day can be. Even without it, your bags ride in our vehicle at no charge — but if you can walk off the ship with nothing at all, do.
What we need from you
- ✓The ship's name and the date
- ✓Which pier — 91 at Smith Cove, or 66 on Bell Street
- ✓Your all-aboard time, not the sailing time — they differ by 60 to 90 minutes
- ✓Roughly when you expect to be off the ship, if you know your disembarkation group
- ✓Whether you are ending at the pier or at Sea-Tac