Happietraveller

It all became too difficult! We are on Viking Orion and they are organising visas for us…..but we couldn’t get this clarified through Viking head office! It was only at embarkation they offered to help us. Good luck.

Lol…yes all of that! I was so stressed I even used a word that’s never come out of my mouth before!!! But it’s all good and we now have an array of passport photos to choose from. Non of them good! 😂

All that stress for nothing! We arrived at embarkation and the first question was ‘which visas do you need help with?’ Not an issue at all. Guest services are doing it for us and many others! Why couldn’t Viking just tell us that it was standard practice to arrange visas once on board? 😞

Good luck. I’ll keep you posted. 👍

Thank you for responding. I give up! I did call Viking to be told that the ship don’t do visas and to keep trying….but ‘perhaps guest services may be able to help once on board’. It was creating me so much stress, at one stage hyperventilating because I just couldn’t get the application form to accept our photos . So I’m hoping that once on board, someone, anyone, might be able to help me. I feel so useless! We join the ship on Tuesday so hopefully there is time. Someone else has said there is a customs desk at Lombok where we should be able to get an ‘on the spot’ visa. 🤷‍♀️

This is the site I am using. But it rejects my passport number and the ‘space’ allocated to upload our passport page is ‘portrait’ size but it will only accept he one information page of the passport (not double page) which of course ‘landscape’ size…and it won’t allow me to upload sideways and crop! It’s beyond me! (I’m actually off to an Apple store today to see if they can help me, lol) But thank you for all the trouble you’ve gone to to help me. One of your ‘pages’ you’ve sent me lists Lombok which is our second port and wasn’t listed on the site I found, so perhaps we’ll stay on the boat the first port if there’s no ‘on the spot’ visa office available.. I did call Viking to ask if guest services could help once we are on the boat, but it was very much a ‘non answer’. “Just keep trying”. Anyway I’m almost at the point of giving up. Thank you for your time. Gay

This is so frustrating! It insists that he uploaded photo of our passport be only the information page, not the opened double page, but the space provided is portrait and of course the single page passport is ‘landscape’. But it won’t allow a sideways photo which fits the ‘allotted’ frame. The final straw was when it continually rejected my passport number as ‘incorrect’. I give up! just hoping someone has been able to apply for visas on the spot at our first port, Komodo national park.

We are going through Vikings recommended visa agency. We tried ourselves, but after 3 days of struggling ourselves….the final straw was when the application rejected my passport number!…we resorted to the agency, but we stilll have to fill in the visa application ourselves, and it keeps rejecting our photos…all taken by a passport photo place (Aus Post). It’s beyond me! And I’ve done our other visas! so my question is… can we get an on the spot visa at our first Indonesian port? Apparently it’s possible at airports, but the official Indonesia govt site doesn’t list any ports as having ‘on the spot’ visa centres. has anyone been successful in getting on the spot visas at any ports of call while sailing in Indonesia?

Husband and I are joining Viking Orion in Sydney next week to sail SE Asia. I am finding it impossible to access indonesia visa site. We have had 3 sets of passport photos taken and all have been rejected on the visa application…(admittedly I would like my photo to look 30 years younger 😁) but that’s not the issue! We have finally resorted to CIBT visa agency, but still being rejected. Apparently if you fly in you can get an eVoa, but there is no mention of entering through a port. Has anyone recently sailed into Indonesia and obtained a visa on the spot? How does customs work when the ship is at tender? Can we go ashore? Many thanks for any replies.

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Husband and I are joining Viking Orion in Sydney next week to sail SE Asia. I am finding it impossible to access indonesia visa site. We have had 3 sets of passport photos taken and all have been rejected on the visa application…(admittedly I would like my photo to look 30 years younger 😁) but that’s not the issue! We have finally resorted to CIBT visa agency, but still being rejected. Apparently if you fly in you can get an eVoa, but there is no mention of entering through a port. Has anyone recently sailed into Indonesia and obtained a visa on the spot? How does customs work when the ship is at tender? Can we go ashore? Many thanks for any replies.

Thank you…as said before, I really find the CC site difficult! I plan on getting some experttuition while on board. 😉

Lol…I have a husband who likes to ‘tick all the boxes’. 😁 thank you.

Lol…they don’t recognise our currency? 😂😂. Thank you.

Oooh. I love puzzles! That’s where I’ll be! 😁