kirkandmimi

On 2/10/2023 at 7:30 AM, little britain said:

Applied on line and received confirmation literally within minutes! Printed off the confirmation they send you.

Thank you for posting. We are heading to Dammam in December on an NCL cruise. I just started looking into the Visa requirements, including making sure we didn't have an Israeli passport stamp from our trip last year, and it looks as though we need an e-marine visa:

In 2021, Saudi Arabia allowed cruise ship passengers to apply for an e-visa to visit and stay in Saudi Arabia. However, it is worth noting that cruise travelers need several travel documents to show the border control agents. This includes:

• An approved marine eVisa for Saudi Arabia.
• A valid passport with six months left in its expiration.
• Proof of a purchased cruise ship ticket.

Did you do have to do this? It's very confusing online... Obviously I'll research more, but just curious how your cruise ship handled it.

This may answer the Jordan question -- from the US embassy website: 

Entry/Exit Requirements For U.S. Citizens

A passport and a visa are required.  Jordan issues visas to U.S. citizens for a fee at most international ports of entry and at most international land border crossings upon arrival. The visa currently costs 40 JD ($56.50 USD) for a single entry, 60 JD ($85.00 USD) for two entries, and 120 JD ($170.00 USD) for a multiple entry visa.  However, visas are not issued upon arrival at the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge land border crossing.  U.S. citizens must already be in possession of a valid visa to Jordan or have a special entry permit from the Jordanian Ministry of Interior to enter Jordan at this crossing.

U.S. citizens are typically given visas that are valid for 30 days.  Foreigners who wish to stay longer than the time given to them by Jordanian immigration upon entry into Jordan must register at a Jordanian police station before expiration of that time.  Travelers who fail to register properly subject themselves to a fine of 1.5 JD (approximately $2.10 USD) per day of overstay.  This fine is usually assessed at departure

NCL representative told us the other day that they will handle issuing visas once onboard. Hope it's true because I'm excited about Jordan...

Maybe but if you look on a map neither locations are near the west coast where the tourist spots are and nowhere near Kusadasi.

 

still hoping we get to go

I was very excited about going to Kusadasi (Vista leaving Sept 13), but in reading the news stories today, I don't think it's a matter of the proximity of the bombings to the port as much as it is the growing anti-American and anti-European sentiment there. For the first time, part of me might be slightly relieved it they skip the port, though I would prefer a replacement port as opposed to another sea day.

I didn't say all. So far, it was only cancelled for the current sailing (at the time of posting). The remaining four cruises with a stop in Kusadasi is on a cruise-to-cruise basis as they monitor the situation in Turkey.

We're on the same itinerary for Sept 13th Vista. No decision announced yet on Turkey, but we're hoping it stays on (or at least is replaced with another port, not another sea day).

Just wanted to say I'm enjoying your blog and picking up some helpful hints (re-thinking our Mdina excursion...). I don't know if it's you or your boyfriend taking the photos, but they're fantastic. What camera is that if you don't mind me asking?

Where do you find that Turkey has declared a 3 mth state of emergency? Our cruise with Royal Caribbean on August 21 would fall into that time frame then and I'm going to relax. A cruise that we planned on for a year should be a fun thing. We are going to do the wait and see.

Most news outlets reported it 2 days ago, but here is one link to the NY times article about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-gulen.html

Generally yes...but getting an alternative port, and maintaining the schedule of the cruise is not always just a quick and easy fix. Sometimes there are other ports are available, sometimes not. If a port is available, and Carnival hasn't used that port before, setting up excursions becomes a new ball game.

 

Carnival doesn't have a large presence in the Med...they would have to draw on the operations of their fellow Carnival Corp cruise lines, who are also scrambling to substitute ports.

Very complicated situation, definitely. Thanks for your response - I still have some hope.

The cruise line can cancel any time up to the morning of arrival in a port. Canceling in advance does give the possibility of scheduling another port, but on any given cruise, the availability of alternative ports isn't always there.

 

Are you talking about canceling your cruise if it doesn't make a Turkey port stop? That might be an over reaction. Or does your cruise begin or end at a Turkish port? That is a far more complicated situation.

Sorry to piggyback, but relating to the original question and your answer -- Our cruise is on Sept 13 of this year and Kusadasi is a stop. Assuming they will cancel the port stop (Turkey has just declared itself in a 3 month state of emergency), will that give Carnival enough time to schedule a different port as opposed to an extra sea day in your opinion? I'm really not looking forward to an extra sea day so hopelessly searching for some optimistic news/opinions.