Change of disembarkation port

[bones774]

On 9/19/2024 at 10:49 AM, ontheweb said:

Are you saying you walked off with your suitcases and no one ever said anything to you?

 

And permission is needed because the foreign country's immigration has to know.

Aye, it's Jamaica, mon

[chengkp75]

On 9/19/2024 at 9:20 AM, HarleyYogi said:

Wow, I didn’t realize you need permission to leave. Notice, I can understand but not permission.

It's not really asking permission, they can't hold you against your will.  It is more that they need to determine that you will have the necessary documentation for entry into the country where you are disembarking (passports, visas that may be different than what was needed for a cruise ship port call), arranging for customs and immigration to specifically come to clear you off the ship, and to prepare a new passenger manifest to be given to the immigrations people in the port you are getting off at, to reflect the difference in passenger count from arrival to departure.  If the ship allows you to leave without the proper documentation, and you subsequently show up at the airport to leave (first off, immigrations will have no record of your arrival, so there is the first roadblock), they may detain you as illegally in the country, and then it would be the cruise line's financial responsibility to house, feed, provide security to detain you, and fly you back to the US.

They may also want to detain you for a while at guest services, to ensure your account is closed, and that they charge you for whatever cost the additional customs and immigration procedures cost, and in some cases, for their own cost to produce the new manifests.  Again, while they cannot detain you, they are within their rights to place an "innkeeper's lien" against you until all of the above are paid, and this means they can confiscate all of your luggage.

 

Finally, they can just say, we don't want to go through all the headaches this entails, and your passage contract is from one designated port to another designated port, and we will hold you to this.

Edited 9 hours ago by chengkp75

[The Traveling Man]

29 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

It's not really asking permission, while they cannot detain you, they are within their rights to place an "innkeeper's lien" against you until all of the above are paid, and this means they can confiscate all of your luggage.

Now that is something I never considered.  If an innkeepers lien allows the cruise line to seize your luggage, that alone should be incentive enough to keep anyone from attempting this without written permission in advance.