The classic dilemma

[time4u2go]

Every time you board /disembark the ship, you have to scan your Ship ID card; thus, the computer always has a constant "headcount" of who's onboard /who's missing.

 

If you're not onboard as sail time approaches, they'll start making announcements for you. They're hoping that somehow you skipped scanning your card and aren't really still on the island.

 

As for the retrieving the passport thing, I know it's often discussed here, but I don't know if I believe it. Regardless, missing the ship is actually pretty rare. Plenty of people cut it close, but if missing the ship were actually common, we'd hear about it on this board.

I'm not sure that that's true. It's but a small percentage of cruisers that post anything on this board.

[waterbug123]

 

You only need your passport to enter the US. You can fly from, say, St. Lucia to St. Maarten without showing a passport.

 

Flying from one country to another country, and St. Lucia and St. Maarten are two separate countries, requires a passport. Or is there some strange exception I'm not aware of for St. Lucia and St. Maarten?