Any Travel Authorizations Denied?

[Cruisegoer]

So a friend of mine did not put their reservation # on their Bermuda TA application. Evidently it wasn't a required field.  I'm just wondering if anyone has ever heard of their BTA being denied?

[lissie]

How would Bermuda know what the reservation number is that you have with the cruise line? They couldn't check it  they wanted to! 

[meglet]

I didn't enter mine either and we were approved.

[Charles4515]

9 hours ago, lissie said:

How would Bermuda know what the reservation number is that you have with the cruise line? They couldn't check it  they wanted to! 

 

Bermuda gets a passenger manifest. 

[njhorseman]

45 minutes ago, Charles4515 said:

 

Bermuda gets a passenger manifest. 

But not until the ship sails, which is too late for purposes of issuing the travel authorization. 

[njhorseman]

If you look at the application form carefully you'll see that the confirmation (reservation) number is not mandatory. It says: " If you have your cruise confirmation number, please add it here to assist in the testing process. "

 

 

Edited July 1, 2022 by njhorseman

[SueMo]

Can anybody tell me how long it takes to get authorization approval?  We filled in the forms and paid our $40 on June 26th.  Our sail date isn't until July 24th.

[ekmmom]

Leaving on 7/24 as well and did the form and payment on 6/24 and still haven't received anything other than the initial receipt

[tulok]

I emailed the Bermuda

goverment from the processing email after submitting with my reference number. This is the reply:

Good day,

The automatic system should approve your form within a week of your cruise.

If you still do not receive it within this timeframe, please email back.


COVID-19 Response Team 
Government of Bermuda | Department of Health
Continental Building | 25 Church Street | Hamilton, Bermuda HM 12
P.O. Box HM 1195 l Hamilton, Bermuda HM EX 
Direct Telephone: 441 444 2498 | Email: coronavirus@gov.bm 
 

[nycnut]

We are on Celebrity's July 17th sailing and just received our approved travel authorization this morning (7/9).  I believe others on the July 17th roll call also just received it this morning.

[BratDet]

1 hour ago, nycnut said:

We are on Celebrity's July 17th sailing and just received our approved travel authorization this morning (7/9).  I believe others on the July 17th roll call also just received it this morning.

Yes, I got it this morning. I did my husbands the following day and he is waiting on his. I read they go by sail date for their approvals.

 

Bernadette

[tulok]

We are going on the 7/17 cruise also and 2/10 got theirs on Saturday and the rest got it early in the morning before we were even up. We are 10 for 10, Wahoo!

[Tyskie]

We applied on 6/27

Sail date 7/22

Received mine yesterday - waiting on DH

[nzdisneymom]

Since some of you have just recently paid for your TAs, I hope it's okay to jump in and ask this question.  When you paid, did you get charged a foreign transaction fee on your card?  (I haven't checked our cards to see which ones may not have FTFs but thought I'd ask while it was on my mind.)  

[Charles4515]

3 minutes ago, nzdisneymom said:

Since some of you have just recently paid for your TAs, I hope it's okay to jump in and ask this question.  When you paid, did you get charged a foreign transaction fee on your card?  (I haven't checked our cards to see which ones may not have FTFs but thought I'd ask while it was on my mind.)  

 

If you have a card that does not charge a foreign transaction fee you should use it. If you don't you will be charged a foreign transaction fee. Your cards that have an annual fee are most likely not to charge the fee. Capital One cards don't charge the fee. 

[nycnut]

I used a card that charges foreign transaction fee but did not see a charge.  I think Bermuda charges cards in US dollars.

 

pre-COVID - The exchange rate was 1 for 1.  When buying things in Bermuda, they took U S dollars and usually gave change in U S dollars. 

.  I hope it hasn’t changed.

[nycnut]

Just read a post further back and it seems some cards do charge a foreign transaction fee.  Sorry for any misinformation.

[Charles4515]

35 minutes ago, nycnut said:

pre-COVID - The exchange rate was 1 for 1.  When buying things in Bermuda, they took U S dollars and usually gave change in U S dollars. 

.  I hope it hasn’t changed.

That has not changed.

[sandancer]

DH and applied this morning. I have had an email acknowledgment, he has not. I am a little concerned that they may not like our UK vaccination cards as they don’t look like the ones issued in N America. All we could do was take photos of the cards and attach them to the application and hope for the best.

[Charles4515]

1 hour ago, sandancer said:

DH and applied this morning. I have had an email acknowledgment, he has not. I am a little concerned that they may not like our UK vaccination cards as they don’t look like the ones issued in N America. All we could do was take photos of the cards and attach them to the application and hope for the best.

Bermuda has visitors from all over the world. Many are from the UK. Bermuda is a British Overseas territory. No doubt they are familiar with UK vaccination cards.