Monday, 10 October 2016
Gulf Waters RV Resort — Port Aransas, Texas
This year’s trip to Europe is over and we are settled in at our home pad in Port Aransas until we move to Houston in December. Time to buckle down and get to work on all things RTW.
Not surprisingly, our RTW adventure requires a number of visas if we want to disembark the ship in some of the countries on our itinerary.
What came as a surprise, however, was how few applications we had to complete. And even more surprising, only one country — India — required our passports to be sent in. So we tackled that one first.
One of the perks for the RTW passengers is having the visa package included in the fare we paid. Oceania provided a link for CIBT, the visa service they contract with, and we downloaded the India application from their website. The only glitch we encountered was that the template for the required photo was missing from the package. But we didn’t know that until the Z’s said something about our photos not meeting the criteria. A phone call to CIBT resolved the problem. Whew! That was a close call.
We dropped off the India visa application package at UPS this morning. Now, fingers crossed, we wait for our passports to be returned to us in three weeks’ time with the all important stamp affixed.
This afternoon we worked on the remaining visa applications — Australia … emailed to Oceania; Myanmar … two copies to be collected by O at embarkation in Miami; Vietnam … one copy to be collected by O at embarkation in Miami. That’s it. The rest will be acquired by O on our behalf … likely as group visas.
And that, as they say in show business, is a wrap.
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