An evening flight means you have the whole day to enjoy your disembarkation port. But this needs to be planned, as you will most likely have luggage. There’s no fun in going straight to the airport and sitting there for eight hours or so—and your flight check-in will not be open, in any case.
There are various ways to make the most of your time in your disembarkation port. You could go to the airport and deposit your bags in a left luggage locker and then take off for a day in town. This is only practical if the airport is not too far from where you want to go, though.
Booking a day room in a hotel is an option and also means you can freshen up before your evening flight. Be sure to book somewhere that will allow early check-in.
Celebrity Cruises offers tours with airport and sometimes rail station and downtown hotel drop-offs in most ports. In Sydney, for example, you could join a city tour taking in the Opera House and Bondi Beach before being dropped off at the airport.
From Civitavecchia, the port for Rome, Italy, there’s the option of joining a wine-tasting tour in the Italian countryside before heading to the airport.
If your Alaska cruise ends in Vancouver, you could take a trip to the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, deep in the forest, that ends with an airport drop-off.
Best of all, you could extend your stay. Celebrity Cruises offers a comprehensive City Stays program, which means everything will be organized for you.
In Alaska, you could pre-book a Cruisetour to extend your vacation, heading off to the wilds of Denali National Park to see a different face of the 49th state.