Rare ak1004 Posted December 4, 2022 #1 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Our e-tickets has the following information: YOUR PRE-CRUISE INFORMATION The ship will be located at Port Rashid pier. Guests will be permitted to embark the vessel from approximately 2:00-4:00PM. Please be sure to have your cruise ticket, valid passport and any necessary visas ready upon embarkation. Immigration Officers may begin processing all guests’ passports at this time. Passports will then be collected by ship’s staff and returned to you after completion of disembarkation procedures at cruise end. Is this normal for SS? Never had our passports collected and held for the whole cruise. What if we need them on shore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlemichael Posted December 4, 2022 #2 Share Posted December 4, 2022 It's standard practice, particularly on port intensive cruises. It saves many a face-to-face inspection. If you needed your passport for a particular reason, I'm sure they'd give it to you. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ak1004 Posted December 4, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted December 4, 2022 14 minutes ago, turtlemichael said: It's standard practice, particularly on port intensive cruises. It saves many a face-to-face inspection. If you needed your passport for a particular reason, I'm sure they'd give it to you. Thank you. We did almost 20 cruises, I don't recall this ever happened on any other line. Yes, I'm sure they will return it if we need it, I'm just curious what's the purpose and why no other line does it as far as I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rojaan19 Posted December 4, 2022 #4 Share Posted December 4, 2022 We have been sailing Silversea since 2010 and that is what they were doing then, and every cruise since then. Any paperwork needed for each port is already done, if you need to do a face to face inspection it is done on an orderly manor ( deck by deck from memory ) I always have a photocopy of the main page with me if I am off the ship - but have never needed it 😉 As TurtleMichael said it is standard practice on all Silvsersea ships. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bell Boy Posted December 4, 2022 #5 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Standard practice on dozens of Cruise lines, it's been the practice for years. Had to hand in our passports only recently - Silver Moon , itinerary to the Fjords (ex Southampton UK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jpalbny Posted December 4, 2022 #6 Share Posted December 4, 2022 10 hours ago, ak1004 said: Is this normal for SS? Never had our passports collected and held for the whole cruise. What if we need them on shore? Yes, completely standard and matches up with every sailing we've ever done on them. Same back in the day when we sailed Oceania. Same on Ponant last year, and that cruise was entirely within France. On both SS and Ponant, we have requested our passports numerous times when we needed them on shore for a car rental, or a COVID antigen test (last year when France was still enforcing the passe sanitaire). In every case it's been a complete non-issue and we were able to get the passports without any problem. Just go to the desk that morning once the ship has been cleared, tell them you need your passport, and it will be provided. They do ask that you sign it out so that they can keep track of whose is out. I can't remember which port, but once on SS when there was a local law that you had to carry a photocopy of your passport, they put a copy in our room the night before. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labrasett Posted December 4, 2022 #7 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Leaving passport with SS means they can get immigration processing done as soon as the ship arrives, in some places this can take place before the passengers are even out of bed. You can always fetch you passport if you think you will need it ashore or ask for a photocopy which will be willingly supplied. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruzinFeraBruzin Posted December 4, 2022 #8 Share Posted December 4, 2022 I think its a great idea that they hold on to passports, simply for safekeeping. I wouldn't want to be in a position of losing my passport in a foreign country while on an excursion - especially on cruises where you are in a different country every day. There are certain ports that require you to show the actual passport or a copy as you go thru immigration after you exit and before you re-board the ship, but for the most part, the ship hangs on to them for the entire voyage. About 20 years ago, I was on a land based tour in Europe and the hotels also required us to submit our passports to them, but this hasn't happened to us recently during independent travel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alithecat Posted December 4, 2022 #9 Share Posted December 4, 2022 I recommend taking another piece of ID with you, like your drivers license. This summer on our Alaska cruise, on returning from shore excursions several times, the port security wanted to see an ID to make sure it matched the name on my ship's card. I did not travel with either my drivers license or my iPhone, since my husband had his. Silversea had my passport. Fortunately they accepted the copy of my passport saved on his phone. Lesson learned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ak1004 Posted December 5, 2022 Author #10 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Thank you everyone for replying. This makes perfect sense. I now remember that this was the case on one of our cruises, maybe Crystal? But we sailed on Oceania in Sep.2022 and Dec.2021 and nobody took our passports. maybe it depends on the area you sail (ours were Caribbean and the US)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonedaddy Posted December 6, 2022 #11 Share Posted December 6, 2022 The took them on our regent splendor cruise around the UK and Ireland. I kept a picture of it on my phone. Was actually nice to not have to bring it along all the time. It was stamped when we got it back by Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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