When you get off a ship in port you will have your cruise card (room key etc) scanned as this gives the ship a record of who is onboard and on shore. This way when it comes time to sail later and you are not on board when you should be the ship knows exactly who is missing. They will page you by name just to make sure and although they may wait a little while (say 15 to 30 minutes) they have a schedule to keep and port fees to pay if they are late departing. They will sail without your sorry ass.
There are many youtube videos of people sauntering back to their ship as it pushes away from the quay. You are responsible for getting to the next port under your own steam and at your own expense.
If you are on a Princess excursion and it is running late for some reason then the ship waits for you.
As you are getting off there will likely be a photographer wielding a camera to take a photo of you with a couple of photographers in fancy dress pertinent to the port you are in-eg saloon gamblers or gunslingers in Alaska, maybe someone in a moose outfit or pirates in a Caribbean port. Good clean fun and you don't have to buy the photo when it is displayed in the photo gallery later.
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