Canadian Passports into Alaska

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lisalovlee33

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In one of our past trips on the NCL sky to the southern carribbean, the shjp kept our passports because we we were holding Canadian passports and not American. Is it true also in Alaska? I was just combing through this site and found the following from one of the posters:
"princess catamaran in juneau....be aware if you rent a car in ketchican and drive up the pass...you will go into canada after about 20 min. ...bring documentation"
We're just worried that if they (Princess Diamond) is going to keep the passports, we may not be able to rent cars if there's a possibility in entering canada!!



Post Edited (06-10-04 02:26)
 
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BSeabob

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Celebrity did not take our passports this time...for the first time actually... like you say all previous cruises in the south they did. Kind of nice to still have it in your possesion.
 
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CaribbeanSun

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If you are Canadian, I don't believe you can rent a car in the US and drive to Canada (Skagway to Canada) -- unless you are the passenger and not the driver. There is some strange rule that prevents Canadians from renting cars in the US and driving them to Canada. You are ok if you are the passenger.
 
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p.g.

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Lisa
I don't think they keep passports anymore. We are Canadian also, and travelled on the Golden Princess eastern route this past April , and they did not keep our passports. We kept them in our room safe. We didn't take them ashore. ( mind you we weren't planning on border crossings)
 
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Trekker

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Caribbean Sun is correct - Canadians cannot rent a car in the US and drive it into Canada.

As for the Passport issue - on my recent 21 day Panama Canal repositioning cruise on the Norwegian Sun all non -Americans had to surrender their passports at embarkation - even for the LA to Vancouver portion - I can see it for the Panama portion but the US part was unexpected - perhaps each cruise line has there own policies on this.

Perhaps have your TA check with the cruise line to see what there policy is

Have a good cruise

Dennis
 
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