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Group: rec.travel.cruises · Group Profile
Author: WarrenWarren Date: May 15, 2008 23:12
On May 15, 9:40В pm, Bill prodigy.net> wrote:>
> 1) It is not a requirement that you have one.
Until you have to fly home from a foreign port, for whatever reason.
Of course that would never happen to you. Right?
> 2) Not everyone travels to a place that requires them.
Everyone potentially needs one.
> 3) They are not free (or close to it, especially for a family).
You can get one for the price of the fuel surcharges the cruise lines
are charging. If you can pay for a cruise and related shipboard
expenses, you can afford a passport.
> 5) They're not trivial to get (as in you fill in a form and mail
> it).
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Or visit a nearby US Post Office that provides window service for
passport applications. It's really not that hard. In fact, you can
fill the forms out online and then print them.
Warren
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