Can we go out of country on honey moon?

[LeeFisher3]

 

 

This does bring up a question in my mind though. I haven't been on a Caribbian or other International cruise. If you get off the ship to see an Island Nation, do you pass through US Customs to return to your ship? What Country is the ship?

 

For instance, say you take a cruise out of Galveston. When you get on the ship, you haven't actually left the US, so I suppose if you never leave the ship, you never leave the US. If the ship stops in say, Cozumel or Cancun, I suppose you go through some Mexican Customs/Immigration desk but what happens when you depart to return to the ship? You leave a country. Do you also enter another?

 

If you don't leave the ship and so never left the US, do you "enter" the US when the ship returns to Galveston?

 

That's similar to a plane trip, with a stop in a country that you are/are not admitted to.

 

When you finally return to the US, you go through customs, regardless of whether you ever got off the plane/ship.

 

That makes sense but if your wife was say traveling without AP and didn't get off the ship, did she leave the US and therefore need to re-enter?

 

Does anybody know what happens when a USC or LPR or AP gets off the ship in Cancun? Do they just re-enter the US at the ship's port of entry?

If the ship docked at a foreign port it does not matter if you got off the ship, the US considers you to have visited a foreign country.

 

When you get off the ship in a foreign port there is no POE involved, the cruise line takes care of it and those who require a visa to be stamped have this done by local immigration officials who visit the ship when it docks.

 

Also, when the ship returns to the US the immigration officials come on board when it docks and no one leaves the ship until all entry requirements have been met for foreign nationals. We sat for 2 hours one time waiting for them to locate someone who was busy having a good time instead of getting their passport stamped.

 

But the cruise line will not allow someone to board if they do not have the proper entry requirements met prior to their departure, this includes entry into the US on the return. They are very big on this one and have people who are knowledgeable in being able to quickly research this information.

 

Also, if they refuse to let you board the ship you loose your money, no refund and no sympathy. They are extremely clear in their pre-cruise documentation, I saw it happen a few times and the folks who were denied were not happy at all.