No Birth Certificate, No Cruise

[boaz 0]

The Mueller family, of Phoenix, was looking forward to a May cruise in Alaska aboard the Norwegian Star. Sue Mueller made a great booking for her family through Hotwire or so she thought.
Before the cruise, Mueller checked with Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) to make sure she had all the travel documents her family would need for the trip. She knew that passport rules were changing, but like many Americans, she was unsure exactly what paperwork she would need to cruise from Seattle to Alaska.

"I contacted NCL customer service the day before the cruise to verify that we had acceptable documents," recalls Mueller. She says the agent verified that the family's documents birth certificates and photo IDs were sufficient for the cruise; the agent went on to explain that new passport requirements, which have sent U.S. travelers scrambling over the past year, would not affect cruise passengers until 2008.

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WHAT DO U THINK

[Mich 0]

Well, I have taken that Cruise in Alaska, and I think that everyone had to have a birth certificate last year as well. There is nothing wrong with that requirement. There is a backlog of applications at the passport office tho. I believe because of it, there has been some kind of lengthening of the time on the 2008 requirement.

 

BTW: You should be using quotes around the parts of this that you indeed did quote.