Cruise after TA

[twincheryl]

Our Alaska cruise 5/21/20 on Solstice has Hawaii to Vancouver right before... and before that is Tahiti to Hawaii.  Will they likely do all their immigration stuff in Hawaii before going on to Vancouver?  We've been the first cruise after a TA before, and know it can often delay boarding.  Wondering if we should just hang out in Vancouver and board after lunch.

 

Thanks, in advance, to all the experts on here...

[Fouremco]

Whatever "immigration stuff" that US authorities might undertake in Hawaii is really not particularly relevant to the customs and immigration process that will be undertaken in Vancouver by Canadian authorities. Unlike the delays experience following a TA arriving in Port Everglades, I read nothing about post-TP delays in Vancouver.

[twincheryl]

1 hour ago, Fouremco said:

Whatever "immigration stuff" that US authorities might undertake in Hawaii is really not particularly relevant to the customs and immigration process that will be undertaken in Vancouver by Canadian authorities. Unlike the delays experience following a TA arriving in Port Everglades, I read nothing about post-TP delays in Vancouver.

Excellent... just wondering as I hadn’t read anything about that either. Having noticed that ours is the first Alaska cruise of the season, I looked to see where the ship was coming from.

[waterbug123]

On 10/25/2019 at 10:34 PM, twincheryl said:

Our Alaska cruise 5/21/20 on Solstice has Hawaii to Vancouver right before... and before that is Tahiti to Hawaii.  Will they likely do all their immigration stuff in Hawaii before going on to Vancouver?  We've been the first cruise after a TA before, and know it can often delay boarding.  Wondering if we should just hang out in Vancouver and board after lunch.

 

Thanks, in advance, to all the experts on here...

 

To my knowledge, Canada doesn't maintain staff for immigration/customs in Hawaii, so the ship/pax can't clear Canadian immigration until it actually gets to Canada.