Passports for 1-nighter?

[awatt]

Are they required?

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

You're going to need photo ID for the cruise anyway and the passport satisfies that need, but a passport is not required because the 1-night cruises are not stopping outside the United States.BobK/Orlando

[mitsguy2001]

One thing I have wondered about: I thought that the Jones Act required a foreign flagged ship to dock at at least one foreign port. How do the 1 night cruises comply with the Jones Act, since they don't dock at any foreign ports?

[electricron]

One thing I have wondered about: I thought that the Jones Act required a foreign flagged ship to dock at at least one foreign port. How do the 1 night cruises comply with the Jones Act, since they don't dock at any foreign ports?

 

The Passenger Services Act, not the Jones Act, only requires foreign flagged ships to visit a foreign port when the ship stops in any other US port. On one night sailings, the ship doesn't stop in another US port, so a visit to a foreign port isn't required.

[anchorsaweigh]

Are they required?

 

Just came back from a 1-nighter and only required a photo id and birth certificate; birth certificate only was required for my 12 year old. (BTW - the passport requirement for sea travel that was to go into effect Jan.'07 has been extended to Jan '08)

[slotaddict]

Just back from the Dawn one nighter, used my drivers license. My daugher brought her DL and birth certificate because her dob was off by one year on the boarding documents. No problem.