Surrendering Passports On Cruise Ships

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Surrendering passports on cruise ships. Delivery services around the country. Weve always had to surrender our passports but we get them back within a few hours or the next morning at the latest. Having a passport on a cruise means not just an easier embarkation and disembarkation process but it protects you against an unexpected situation that may occur during the course of a cruise such as.

Carnival highly recommends that all guests travel with a passport valid for at least six months beyond the completion of travel unless otherwise noted differently. The reason you have to surrender you passport is the customs officers come on to the ship really early and look over the passports of people from other countries. So in 2007 before our Med cruise I wrote to the US State Department asking about this.

Protecting our customers and staff is a high priority for us. You can use the passport card to reenter the United States at sea ports of entry from Mexico Canada Bermuda and the Caribbean. However if you are not able to return on the cruise ship for any reason eg for an emergency evacuation you will need a passport book to fly back to the United States.

Clearly the lady you spoke to was wrong. I was in Russia last summer and they do have very strict laws so maybe Russia is unique. Welcome to PO Cruises.

If you are a US citizen you can cruise on Liberty with a birth certificate so it really doesnt make sense that your passport would be surrendered. Guests who do not possess the required ID may be denied boarding. But never had to surrender my passport before i find it an odd practice but since you all agree it aint no big thing im not going.

You are not surrendering your passport because you dont lose control over it. If you make enough fuss it can be returned to you. Our policy states that any guest traveling without proper documentation will be denied boarding the.