Passports are Expensive!!

[Guard Dad]

Geeze!!!

$110 each, plus wifey's pic from Walgreen's was too big, so the Post Office took another at $25 for a 2" x 2" pic.

There went $250 and the cruise isn't until May!

 

[ShoeDiva]

) Yes. They are not cheap, but well worth it!

 

[Callahan]

I went on a cruise to Mexico in late 2010 and I didn't need a passport. Did the rules change?

 

[Guard Dad]

I went on a cruise to Mexico in late 2010 and I didn't need a passport. Did the rules change?

I don't know all the details, but there are certain places you can go without one.

Not where I'm going though.

 

[mei lan]

At least they're good for 10 years.

 

[Grey Colson]

I went on a cruise to Mexico in late 2010 and I didn't need a passport. Did the rules change?

I don't know all the details, but there are certain places you can go without one.

Not where I'm going though.

You still have to have one to go to Alabama :Ninja

 

[Guard Dad]

I went on a cruise to Mexico in late 2010 and I didn't need a passport. Did the rules change?

I don't know all the details, but there are certain places you can go without one.

Not where I'm going though.

You still have to have one to go to Alabama :Ninja

Who wants to go to Alabama?

 

[mei lan]

I went on a cruise to Mexico in late 2010 and I didn't need a passport. Did the rules change?

I don't know all the details, but there are certain places you can go without one.

Not where I'm going though.

You still have to have one to go to Alabama :Ninja

Nah. You're thinking of an RFD-TV hat.






(Which I have one of, btw. It belonged to my Daddy. :Ninja )

 

[sadie612]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

 

[Guard Dad]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

 

[sadie612]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

yep... you can use your birth certificates for that.... Cruises only though

 

[Guard Dad]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

yep... you can use your birth certificates for that.... Cruises only though

Not the ones we're going to, so I'm told.

We have more planned anyway.

 

[ShoeDiva]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

) Most people on a cruise do.

I thought they might have changed that closed loop thing for the cruises. It has gone back and forth a few times on what the rules would be and are.
I personally would feel better about having a passport verses a birth certificate anyway, just in case of the event you don't make it back to your ship or really anything.

 

[sadie612]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

yep... you can use your birth certificates for that.... Cruises only though

Not the ones we're going to, so I'm told.

We have more planned anyway.

where ya going?

Our last cruise we noticed Ashlyn's expired so I called the cruise line in a panic!!!

 

[Guard Dad]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

yep... you can use your birth certificates for that.... Cruises only though

Not the ones we're going to, so I'm told.

We have more planned anyway.

where ya going?

Our last cruise we noticed Ashlyn's expired so I called the cruise line in a panic!!!

Can't recall some of the names right off; but in the Caribbean.

 

[sadie612]

you know you could of just used your birth certificate for a cruise

We're going on some of the islands

yep... you can use your birth certificates for that.... Cruises only though

Not the ones we're going to, so I'm told.

We have more planned anyway.

where ya going?

Our last cruise we noticed Ashlyn's expired so I called the cruise line in a panic!!!

Can't recall some of the names right off; but in the Caribbean.

nope, don't need them for that...Thankfully

If you are on a cruise then you do not need it for the Caribbean, Mexico or Canada... there is a few more places but I forget

 

[atlantdav]

GD, good to be on the safe side and have a passport. I got mine back in 1992 (a challenge at that time cause the gov't was on shutdown- that's another story) to fly to Jamaica for a week. The only time I was asked for my passport was at Atlanta-Hartsfield upon arrival back.

I've driven to Canada before not needing a passport, although many years ago and things may have changed. Coming back into the USA my van was spot checked at the border.................they made me pour out a bottle of OJ I was drinking cause it was considered "perishable" food. :tapfoot2

 

[Guard Dad]

Apparently the laws were changed 2-3 years ago and there are now lots of ifs and buts. Ongoing results of the war on terror, I suspect.

http://studenttravel.about.com/od/uspassports/a/passports_2.htm

http://gocaribbean.about.com/od/beforeyougo/p/CaribPassports.htm

Daughter is handling all this and I don't know the specifics yet; but some of the places we're going will require a passport.

 

[sadie612]

I have a big big suit case you can take to hide me in..., I will sleep up on deck lol

 

[Foxmeister]

Let me know how the cruise was GD. I'm thinking of taking one after I come back.