Trying to make excusion plans for our upcoming Hawaii cruise - Spirit.   When you are in Maui port, are you tendered or docked?  Are you able to come an go in either situation throughout the night or get off the boat early morning for a 7 am excusion? 

I would like to hear from Carnival staff on this one.  We are taking this cruise on 4/20. I read on another site that initially we would tender but at some point the ship would actually dock for overnight (after the other ships had left the dock).  Then on yet another site I saw where the tenders ran until midnight.  So I am confused and wondering the same thing!!  Thanks!

I posted your question on another Carnival site and got this answer:

Do I understand that we can get off as early as we want to (to try to make it to an early private excursion) and the the gangway stays open around the clock?  That would be awesome! 

 Hi!  overnight at a destination - the ship does have a time limit to board the ship at night i.e. 10:00 p.m. so if you are not on board by that time, they do close it up for the evening.   We just got back from our April 2009 12 days cruise Hawaii and our 2 days in Honolulu - the first day on board they had a time limit to have everyone on board and that was around 10:00 or 11:00 p.m.  They have it posted when you walk off the ship, if not, ask the people at the check-out and they will tell you.  Don't get caught having to pay for a hotel because you missed the boarding time.