mrsminniemouse

I am English. My son is English. We have EU passports issued in UK.

Of course you can.......you might need to attend!

I have called the passport office. First appointment is on Sunday. Takes a week to process. We travel next Saturday.

If you extend your passport early they extend the new passport by the time remaining on the old one........so you don't lose out!

I know- but I cannot get an appointment in time to get it renewed before we cruise on Sat 13 Aug. :-(

You need to go onto the official website for each country you are visiting, transiting thru airport. And also the website of our country. Each of these will tell you how much room is REQUIRED to be left on your passport. Some country's required 6 months others require 3 months.

 

This issue is too important to be left to Cruise Critic. The airlines can also deny you is boarding if they believe your passport expiration date is not sufficient for the itinerary you you are flying.

We aren't flying to the port. We are driving. Late at night, there was nowhere else I could ask for advice so I asked here.

I would personally do whatever it took to get an expedited passport, but that is me. I would be worried sick.

Have tried. No one day express service for kids :-(

Have tried. No one day express service for kids :-(

Thank you everyone. Yes it is a UK passport for a 10 year old boy. When I posted my original message late last night there was no official way I could check so I asked here in case anyone had recent experience of this.

You can only get the one week express service for kids and the first London appointment is on Saturday. We are due to cruise on Saturday so that does not leave a week.

RC are happy to let him board and according to various government websites a valid passport is required to enter France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Gibraltar. Additional time is not obligatory. Possibly port officials will refuse him entry at one of our stops but that is a risk we have to take I think.

Very cross with myself for not checking earlier.

Thanks for the help and replies.

Mandy

We are going on a Mediterranean cruise on Independence of the Seas on 13 August. Just realised that my ten year old son's passport expires October this year.

According to government website UK passports are only required to be valid for duration of trip when visiting EU countries. We will be visiting Gibraltar, Italy, France and Spain.

However- will RC require 3 or 6 months on our passports?

Not sure I'll be able to get an appointment at passport office in time.

Any experience of this?

Thanks so much.

Mandy

I'm not too tech savvy but VOOM was great on my IPhone and IPad during our January Allure cruise. Yes, keep your phone in airplane once you sail so you don't get roaming charges. I used email, Facebook, and Facebook Messenger to stay in touch with family and friends while on the cruise (and of course post lots of pictures of my wonderful cruise). Since I only paid for one device I couldn't use my IPhone or my IPad for wifi at the same time but there really wasn't a need to use them at the same time. It was so easy and quick to use VOOM.

So you get a login that you can use on any of your devices? Could I share with DH if we used on different devices at different times? It is very expensive for a family of 4!