Passports in port

[Smmessineo]

Another thread here (on vodka) mentions that if you plan to use a credit card in St Petersburg, make sure you have your passport. Is this the case here and in any other ports? I thought I read here somewhere that passports were collected on the ship and not returned until the end of the cruise.

And along those lines, do passports get stamped in each port?

I tried searching on this subject and the search feature was acting balky.

Thanks for the help!

Happy cruising!

Margaret

[LHT28]

The only port we had our Passports was St Pete. I always carry a photocopy of ours in any case.

I will have to check my passport for stamps ...:confused:

[mycruz]

The cruise line did not keep our passports (US). I took mine with me into all the ports just in case and left the copy in the room safe. The only port that was stamped was St. Petersburg. It was pretty easy getting off and on, passports really weren't even looked at in the other ports, just our cruise cards.

Mary

[JordanF]

We had to show passports in St. Pete, Germany, Poland and Denmark. Sometimes they got stamped, sometimes not. The ship did not hold our passports.

[Smmessineo]

Thanks for all the quick and informative replies!

 

Margaret

[SCDH]

We took our passports in all ports--just in case something happened and we missed the ship. We wore them in holders around our necks. Needed passport to buy vodka in Russia.