Alaska what do we need?

[Guest]

Hi,

we're cruising Alaska with DCL this August.

I've applied for our Canadian ESA visa's, passports all in place and arranged insurance.

Does anyone know if we need to have ESTA's as well and if there's any other documentation we'd need to have in place please?

Trying to at least pretend to be organised

Thanks

[Omega1]

Originally Posted by Hyper_Stitch

Hi,

we're cruising Alaska with DCL this August.

I've applied for our Canadian ESA visa's, passports all in place and arranged insurance.

Does anyone know if we need to have ESTA's as well and if there's any other documentation we'd need to have in place please?

Trying to at least pretend to be organised

Thanks

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I think you do need an ESTA if you arrive in the USA by ship.
USA ESTA arriving by air or sea - Yes. Arriving by land - No.
Canada ETA arriving by air - Yes. Arriving by sea or land - No.

[Bats]

Originally Posted by Hyper_Stitch

Hi,

we're cruising Alaska with DCL this August.

I've applied for our Canadian ESA visa's, passports all in place and arranged insurance.

Does anyone know if we need to have ESTA's as well and if there's any other documentation we'd need to have in place please?

Trying to at least pretend to be organised

Thanks

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Yes, you'll need an ESTA as Alaska is part of the US.
Luckily we're arriving in Canada by ship so we escape the need for the Canada visa thing.

[Guest]

Thank you.

I thought that might be the case, at least if we get the ESTA's renewed that's one less thing to do for WDW next year

[CarolynU]

Originally Posted by Bats

Yes, you'll need an ESTA as Alaska is part of the US.
Luckily we're arriving in Canada by ship so we escape the need for the Canada visa thing.

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Joa my friend not on this board is flying into Calgary and joining an organised tour ending in Vancouver before boarding an Alaskan Cruise. Does she still need an ESTA as she is boarding from the land rather than directly from the air? I'm a bit confused, and she is panicking because she avoids the internet like the plague so when I advised her that she needed and ETA for Canada or whatever it's called and probably an ESTA too not only had she never heard of them but she went into full scale meltdown.

[oohoohmonkey]

Originally Posted by CarolynU

Joa my friend not on this board is flying into Calgary and joining an organised tour ending in Vancouver before boarding an Alaskan Cruise. Does she still need an ESTA as she is boarding from the land rather than directly from the air? I'm a bit confused, and she is panicking because she avoids the internet like the plague so when I advised her that she needed and ETA for Canada or whatever it's called and probably an ESTA too not only had she never heard of them but she went into full scale meltdown.

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She needs both a Canadian ETA and a US ESTA. I did a similar trip last year before boarding Disney Wonder to Alaska and needed both. I checked on the official Canadian and USA visa sites. Both are straight forward to arrange electronically.

[CarolynU]

Originally Posted by oohoohmonkey

She needs both a Canadian ETA and a US ESTA. I did a similar trip last year before boarding Disney Wonder to Alaska and needed both. I checked on the official Canadian and USA visa sites. Both are straight forward to arrange electronically.

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Thank you for this. I suspected as much. She and her husband are going on HAL through a Saga tour and they have not been informed by Saga about needing either of these and now she cannot understand why, and I'm sure that she thinks that I'm making it up. I've offered to help her complete them, but she just panicked and said that she didn't even want to talk about it! Oh well I've given her the correct information then, so not much more that I can do.

[Bats]

Originally Posted by CarolynU

Thank you for this. I suspected as much. She and her husband are going on HAL through a Saga tour and they have not been informed by Saga about needing either of these and now she cannot understand why, and I'm sure that she thinks that I'm making it up. I've offered to help her complete them, but she just panicked and said that she didn't even want to talk about it! Oh well I've given her the correct information then, so not much more that I can do.

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Sorry Carolyn, have been away for a bit so missed this.
Let's hope SAGA give her the correct info soon, although I guess it's in her small print anyway as it normally is.

[CarolynU]

Originally Posted by Bats

Sorry Carolyn, have been away for a bit so missed this.
Let's hope SAGA give her the correct info soon, although I guess it's in her small print anyway as it normally is.

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No worries Joa. I was just checking on here because I must have panicked her so much she actually nearly had a meltdown, so I just wanted to make sure that I had got my facts straight.
She just kept saying that she had paid for a travel agent precisely to avoid her having to do anything like this? !
I'm going to leave it now because I don't want to make the situation worse, but they are going this September so I hope that somehow they apply for their vital permission to travel to both countries.
Hope you are good and well. I'm off on the WBPC soon. Can't wait !

[Guest]

We've got both after advice here and research, we're doing tours crossing the Alaskan/ Canadian border, not taking any chances