Stamped passports?

[woodi]

I read somewhere you could leave your passport with the purser and get it stamped for each port. Has anyone done that?

[Cooper333]

I don't know about cruises, but in mexico they didnt' stamp it at all, and I am so disappointed.

[jetskier]

I don't know about cruises, but in mexico they didnt' stamp it at all, and I am so disappointed.

 

The USA is just as bad, 21 re-entries and I have only three re-entry stamps.

Dave

[bguppies]

On our first trip to Nassau, we just got off the Sensation and walked to the office at the end of the pier and asked them to stamp ours for us.

 

No Problem...:D

 

Bill

[andrewjohnyyz]

we went on a western cruise last year, drove to miami from Toronto, didnt stamp our passports at the border(they never do anyways), didnt stamp it in Cozumel, Grand Cayman, or Jamaica, not even when we arrived back into Miami customs,

[bigman01]

woodi, yes, I have left my passport at the purser's desk and had them stamp my passport. So yes, they will do it. However, from what they told me, it's completely up the local customs officers when they board the ship, but chances are, most of the time they will stamp a passport.

[woodi]

Thanks Bigman, I will give it a try ;)

[luvbeagles]

We just returned from a 7 day Western Caribbean and we did leave our passports with the purser. The stamps from Mexico and Grand Cayman are so faint you can't really read them. Definitely go for it! Bon Voyage!!!:)

[happyshelly]

I remember when i got my passport for my trip to Mexico got thru customs and they did mot stamp it. I asked if they could and they did with no problem. I mentioned to them that my hubby has so many stamps that i want to catch up to him/

[tiger belle]

I might be a little nervous about leaving my passport at the purser's desk...what if it were lost or something? :o

[rcoaster809]

I was on the Miracle in June and the Purser's Desk told be they no longer do that when I asked. :confused:

[no1uno]

My wife and I left our passports at the purser's desk during a Western Caribbean cruise on Glory in early September. They explained that they would try to have passports stamped. As explained earlier, they said they were at the mercy of each country's immigration rep. The last night of the cruise we stopped by the desk and the passports were waiting for us. We had gotten 3 out 4 stamps. Belize, Roatan and Freeport stamps. Nothing from Cozumel. All in all we were happy as I doubt we would have found the immigration office in Belize and Roatan like we were able to do in Nassau the year before. I say go for it - nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[startraveler]

I was on a non-Carnival cruise to the Western Caribbean this October. We got our (US) passports stamped in Grand Cayman (the usual souvenir stamp) and a regular one in Ocho Rios - giving us two days stay!

 

We didn't have time to search for one in Cozumel, nor did we get one in Labadee, the "private island" in Haiti.

[aggieastrosfan]

I suppose I should try this someday - we got our passports early 2000 for our March 2000 cruise. We have no stamps. :o

[marcia014]

I have been on 5 cruises with my passport, and the only stamp I have is in New Orleans which they stamped when I checked IN for the cruise!?!

[sappygirl]

We only had ours stamped once. It was in NOLA when we were checking out. I would never leave my passport with anyone at any time by the way.:eek: getting it stamped is not that important to me.

[glrounds]

we went on a western cruise last year, drove to miami from Toronto, didnt stamp our passports at the border(they never do anyways), didnt stamp it in Cozumel, Grand Cayman, or Jamaica, not even when we arrived back into Miami customs,

 

Good neighbors, virtually identical cultures, make good friends . . . Canada/United States . . . longest UNGUARDED political boundary in the World. :)

[startraveler]

As for other cruise ports, we've gotten our (US) passports stamped in Nassau and in Tortola. We couldn't find where in St. Martin (although, in hindsight, we should have asked where the ferry to Anguilla docks) and we were told that the place in St. Maarten was too far to walk from the pier.

 

My passport is shaping up to be interesting, because most of the stamps in it are from cruise ports that don't normally stamp US passports. (I also have a "non-souvenir" passport stamp when I took a Discovery cruise to the Bahamas - Freeport - and stayed there for two days.) No one's raised an eyebrow, though....