Harborside Drive Lane Closures Complicate Three Carnival Galveston Embarkations
If you're booked on Carnival Breeze on October 29 or November 2, or Carnival Jubilee on October 31, check traffic on embarkation day before you leave. Tell a drop-off driver to enter via 22nd Street and exit via 23rd. If you park in the Express Lot, enter from 33rd Street, and remember the free shuttle only serves Lots A and B. Keep to your scheduled arrival appointment and be onboard by the final boarding time on your boarding pass.
My read is that this is a road problem, not a ship problem, and Carnival is treating it that way: no departure times have changed, so the burden falls on guests. The notice covers three sailings, Carnival Breeze on October 29 and November 2 and Carnival Jubilee on October 31, and Carnival has already made clear it won't compensate guests who are late because of traffic. The irony is that the fix is itself the cause. A port project is building an internal roadway to pull cruise traffic off Harborside, but for now it adds to the congestion. TxDOT's road work, meant to finish over the summer, now runs to early November, and the port improvements continue into and beyond 2027. Expect more notices like this one. The winners are guests who read the advisory, and the losers are those who trust a GPS shortcut through Terminal 28, since there is no vehicle access from there to Terminal 25. In their shoes, I would pick my route the night before and leave early.