A question that I get asked more and more frequently is ' Do I need a visa for my cruise?' the answer to this is not always as straight forward as you seem. Let’s take St Petersburg for example. If you are visiting St Petersburg on a cruise, you have a two options to chose from, depending on which would suit you best......
Pretty much all cruise ships visiting St Petersburg; give you the chance to go ashore on the ships visa. This ONLY applies if you are going off on a pre arranged shore excursion with the cruise line staff, and NOT if you just want to go off on your own and have a good look around. If you are a bit braver, than the rest, and would like to explore on your own, then a call to the visa service is required and a visa needed.
Now let’s look at maybe India, you can get a 3 day visa for India, but most cruise lines require you to get a lot longer duration visa, even if you are only visiting India for say, one day. The reason for this is that if for any reason you have to stay in India, due to falling ill and being hospitalised. The authorities require that your visa cover the full stay that you are in hospital.
The best bit of advice I can give really, is that on every cruise you book, just take 5 minutes to check if any visa is required. You can call us or the Visa service and we can check for you, but it is actually down to the traveller to check. We do always but it on our invoices, because if you don’t have a visa, and one is required, then you will not be allowed on the ship full stop, which equals a holiday ruined.
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