Time for the ship to clear

[lionheart]

With the arrival in port, were their any ports that took a long time to clear or some that didn't take long. I will be on the Constellation.

 

Thanks,

 

Kurt

[mycruz]

Not sure what you are asking...are you meaning from the time you arrive at port then cleared to disembark?

[lionheart]

Yes...

[dileep]

Yes...

 

What port?

[mycruz]

St. Petersburg probably took the longest. From the time the Russian Immigration officers boarded, it was probably 30-40 minutes before we could disembark. We were one of the first ones off, so we got through immigration quickly and off on our tour with RO around 0730.

[lionheart]

What port?

 

No specific port...just curious if their was a port or more that took much longer or much shorter to clear. thanks,

 

Kurt

[lionheart]

What port?

 

also, good south american review...I would't mind doing that someday...

[dileep]

also, good south american review...I would't mind doing that someday...

 

Thanks. Valparaiso had the longest wait time for the ship to clear that I have experienced. Everywhere else, it has been a non-issue.

 

One interesting thing about our South America ctuise was that they took our passports when we boarded in Buenos Aires and we did not get our passports back until the day before we docked in Valparaiso. I was surprised to see that our passports were stamped in each port that we entered from a different country! Looks like the local authorities came onboard and stamped all our passports!

[lionheart]

Thanks. Valparaiso had the longest wait time for the ship to clear that I have experienced. Everywhere else, it has been a non-issue.

 

One interesting thing about our South America ctuise was that they took our passports when we boarded in Buenos Aires and we did not get our passports back until the day before we docked in Valparaiso. I was surprised to see that our passports were stamped in each port that we entered from a different country! Looks like the local authorities came onboard and stamped all our passports!

 

Thats real cool getting your passport stamped...Be nice if all countries did that. After a few trips, build up a nice collection.

[lionheart]

Thanks. Valparaiso had the longest wait time for the ship to clear that I have experienced. Everywhere else, it has been a non-issue.

 

One interesting thing about our South America ctuise was that they took our passports when we boarded in Buenos Aires and we did not get our passports back until the day before we docked in Valparaiso. I was surprised to see that our passports were stamped in each port that we entered from a different country! Looks like the local authorities came onboard and stamped all our passports!

 

Also, I like your photo albums. I looked at the Baltic pics and the South American ones...

[dileep]

Also, I like your photo albums. I looked at the Baltic pics and the South American ones...

 

I got carried away with South America photo albums after I realized that Yahoo allows unlimited number of photos.