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Old 03-25-2016, 12:51 PM   #1
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passport silly question

IN the movie "While you were sleeping" Sandra Bullocks character had no stamps in her passport but she dreams of seeing the world. Well my husband and I are the same way. We have had our passports for two or three years and have no stamps. Do our passports get stamped when we go to port in nassau? I read somewhere else that if you are cruising to the bahamas it is best to leave your passport on the ship and just carry copies. Is this true?
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I think maybe the recommendation to leave the passports may be for fear of pickpockets, and the fact that it isn't needed to leave the ship. In that case, I'd leave copies on the ship, and just be smart as you would anywhere in public. There is an office in Nassau right near the cruise terminal where you can get it stamped if you like. We took ours and intended to get it stamped but waited until after our walking tour, and by then we were hot and tired and skipped it. So perhaps consider doing it first thing.
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I believe the ship gets cleared as a whole vs. stamping individual passports. We've never taken ours into Nassau. I think that guest services has some sort of stamp that they will stamp yours with if you ask.
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we took our's and had it stamped but it was a pretty iffy building, when you get off ship it's the building to the left immediately after you pass through into bahamas, you won't miss it there is a lot of military personnel with weapons, intimidating but I wanted the stamp. I carried them in my fanny pack.
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