Washington, D, C, & You: Cruise Travel Document Requirements

On March 27th, the Department of State released its 151 page (in PDF) Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) detailing that “travelers present a passport or other approved secure document denoting citizenship and identity for all land and sea travel into the United States.” Cruise travel documents requirements have, as of yet, been hypnotically difficult. Presently, required travel cruise documents are just shy of the more strict conditions for air travel.

In the dollar’s hey-day, only 20% of Americans traveled outside their homeland. The once-coveted greenback is losing face to the colorful-coated Euro (now worth 1.5 times the dollar) and otherworldly banknotes. Due to such increases, more and more Americans may turn their heads inward, away from international locations and cruise travel packages going to places afar.

The great navigator James Cook captained three exploratory vessels during his lifetime. Among Cook’s greatest discoveries and feats was his seeming ability to keep his shipmates healthy. Back then, you see, ships often carried twice as many crewmembers as needed, as half would die of health related issues. However, Cook’s voyages often brought back as many men as had initially left. If Cook were alive today, perhaps he could give us his travel cruise tips.

Although this does not happen everywhere, I was surprise to learn that we do still have pirates in high seas. This was shocking for me but I do not think this warrants anyone to postphone or stop you from planning your next cruise vacation.

On Friday thirty crew members of the yacht Le Ponant were released near Somalia. French troops have arrested six pirates. The French officials had been in negotiations with the pirates since the previous Sunday.

Seadream Yacht Club has changed its monetary policy. Starting today, the company will charge euros for bookings made in Europe and dollars for everyone else. Onboard expenses will be charged in dollars.

The policy was changed to make it more convenient for Europeans and the company and save them exchange fees. The company had to convert euros to dollars and then back into euros to pay bills for European expenses. It is a plus for Americans to sail in Europe on a ship that prices everything in US dollars.

Description: Recent court rulings have resulted in warnings by legal authorities for cruise travel consumers to be more careful when booking their holidays. Nicole Chiu reports on the latest scams in cruise travel news.

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including main blog module. Hopefully everything is working now.This is first test blog post to check different settings of the module