DH and I booked Edge for May of 2024. 10-Day Hawaii Cruise - Honolulu to Vancouver. Then we booked a 6-day Alaska Cruise - Vancouver to Seattle.
Today we received an email saying we are in violation of the Passenger Vessel Services Act.
Why can Celebrity sail from Hawaii to Vancouver and that not be a violation?
Why can Celebrity sail from Vancouver to Alaska and back to Seattle and that not be a violation?
But it becomes a violation when you put t
The passenger services act says that you cannot take a ship from one U.s. port to a different US port without visiting some, and this is important, distant foreign port. The act also sets out which places qualify as distant foreign ports. No place your proposed itinerary qualifies. So you cannot take the ship from Hawaii to Seattle because there is no distant foreign port on the itinerary.
Looking at each leg separately, the first leg starts in the US and ends in Canada. PVSA doesn’