Passport required for travel to Cozumel

We will be flying to Cancun for a vacation in Cozumel. Whwn we cruised to
Mexico a passport was never required. Do we need a passport to fly from
Memphis to Cancun?

Mike

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:57:47 GMT, "Mike Wright" <mwright@jam.>
wrote:

>We will be flying to Cancun for a vacation in Cozumel. Whwn we cruised to
>Mexico a passport was never required. Do we need a passport to fly from
>Memphis to Cancun?

Post 9/11, it's very, very foolish to leave the country without a
passport, IMO.

-- Larry

I agree that post 9/11, it would be foolish to leave the country without a
passport. However, I think Mexico is an exception. First of all, the
airlines, who are now more security conscious, check your passport when
going to a foreign destination. However, they do not require it for travel
to Mexico, just the documents a previous poster mentioned. If it's good
enough for the airlines, it's good enough for me.

If it's foolish to go to Mexico without a passport, then there are hundred
of thousand of American tourists who are being foolish. I go to Mexico all
the time and you will be surprised how many Americans you will see on the
plane going to Mexico without passports.

"pltrgyst" <pltrgyst@covad.net> wrote in message
news:knqi70l8pfv6cfjqcslvmfdqno0kpq119t@...
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:57:47 GMT, "Mike Wright" <mwright@jam.>
> wrote:
>
> >We will be flying to Cancun for a vacation in Cozumel. Whwn we cruised
to
> >Mexico a passport was never required. Do we need a passport to fly from
> >Memphis to Cancun?
>
> Post 9/11, it's very, very foolish to leave the country without a
> passport, IMO.
>
> -- Larry
>

In article <aiUec.2970$Nx.584@news.cpqcorp.net>,
"cb" <cb@m> writes:

...
>If it's foolish to go to Mexico without a passport, then there are hundred
>of thousand of American tourists who are being foolish. ...

Many American (USA) tourist are very foolish.
Americans in general, in apparent contrast to citizens of most other
countries, are foolishly reluctant to get and use a passport.

--
Charlie Hammond -- Hewlett-Packard Company -- Ft Lauderdale FL USA
(hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com -- remove "@not" when replying)
All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily my employer's.

Count me foolish and I'll count you paranoid.:)

"Charlie Hammond" <hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com> wrote in message
news:7mVec.2983$g%1.1448@news.cpqcorp.net...
> In article <aiUec.2970$Nx.584@news.cpqcorp.net>,
> "cb" <cb@m> writes:
>
> ..
> >If it's foolish to go to Mexico without a passport, then there are
hundred
> >of thousand of American tourists who are being foolish. ...
>
> Many American (USA) tourist are very foolish.
> Americans in general, in apparent contrast to citizens of most other
> countries, are foolishly reluctant to get and use a passport.
>
> --
> Charlie Hammond -- Hewlett-Packard Company -- Ft Lauderdale FL USA
> (hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com -- remove "@not" when replying)
> All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily my employer's.
>

In article <NTcfc.3087$IL2.2656@news.cpqcorp.net>, "cb" <cb@m> writes:
>"Charlie Hammond" <hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com> wrote in message
>news:7mVec.2983$g%1.1448@news.cpqcorp.net...
>> In article <aiUec.2970$Nx.584@news.cpqcorp.net>,
>> "cb" <cb@m> writes:
>>
>> ..
>> >If it's foolish to go to Mexico without a passport, then there are
>hundred
>> >of thousand of American tourists who are being foolish. ...
>>
>> Many American (USA) tourist are very foolish.
>> Americans in general, in apparent contrast to citizens of most other
>> countries, are foolishly reluctant to get and use a passport.
>>
>Count me foolish and I'll count you paranoid.:)

Fair enough. Others can make up their own minds.

...remember: Just because I'm paranoid does NOT mean that they
aren't out to get me! <smile>

--
Charlie Hammond -- Hewlett-Packard Company -- Ft Lauderdale FL USA
(hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com -- remove "@not" when replying)
All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily my employer's.

cb wrote:
> Count me foolish and I'll count you paranoid.:)
>

You are indeed foolish. I know someone who didn't bother to get a
passport to visit the USVI, and they wouldn't let her and her daughter
back into the US. It was no problem for her to leave the US, because
the USVI didn't require a passport, and the airlines do not concern
themselves with your possible problem returning. Officials at
Immigration detained her and her daughter for 12 hours, before finally
letting them go home.

Why would you risk that? What is your objection to getting a passport
anyway? Do you have some kind of weird phobia? If you already have a
passport, why on earth wouldn't you use it to go to Mexico?

You're making the wrong argument to the right person. First of all, my
original statement was limited to travel in Mexico and so your story about
USVI is really a non-sequitur to my post. If one already has a passport,
then that's a no-brainer. However, you'll be surprised at how many people in
the US have not travelled to any other country but Mexico and so have not
bothered to get a passport. My statement about not needing a passport going
south of the border is based on the following. First, I had a timehshare in
Mexico for 15 years and having gone there at least once a year, until
recently, I only travelled with a driver's license and a birth certificate.
I have also crossed the US-Mexico border by foot and by car in places like
Tijuana in CA, Nogales in AZ and Nuevo Laredo in TX and have done it without
a passport with no problems. In fact, in these border towns, people cross
the border with just a driver's license though I would have to caution that
they look American not Mexican.

"bob" <bobt@anyemail.com> wrote in message
news:407E8F92.4040706@anyemail.com...
>
>
> cb wrote:
> > Count me foolish and I'll count you paranoid.:)
> >
>
> You are indeed foolish. I know someone who didn't bother to get a
> passport to visit the USVI, and they wouldn't let her and her daughter
> back into the US. It was no problem for her to leave the US, because
> the USVI didn't require a passport, and the airlines do not concern
> themselves with your possible problem returning. Officials at
> Immigration detained her and her daughter for 12 hours, before finally
> letting them go home.
>
> Why would you risk that? What is your objection to getting a passport
> anyway? Do you have some kind of weird phobia? If you already have a
> passport, why on earth wouldn't you use it to go to Mexico?
>

cb wrote:
> You're making the wrong argument to the right person. First of all, my
> original statement was limited to travel in Mexico and so your story about
> USVI is really a non-sequitur to my post.

The point I was making is that you can have problems RETURNING to the US
regardless of whether a passport is required to enter Mexico, the USVI,
or any other country.

> If one already has a passport,
> then that's a no-brainer.

One would hope, yet the mother and daughter I was speaking of actually
had passports, but did not think they needed them for a trip to the USVI.

> However, you'll be surprised at how many people in
> the US have not travelled to any other country but Mexico and so have not
> bothered to get a passport. My statement about not needing a passport going
> south of the border is based on the following. First, I had a timehshare in
> Mexico for 15 years and having gone there at least once a year, until
> recently, I only travelled with a driver's license and a birth certificate.
> I have also crossed the US-Mexico border by foot and by car in places like
> Tijuana in CA, Nogales in AZ and Nuevo Laredo in TX and have done it without
> a passport with no problems. In fact, in these border towns, people cross
> the border with just a driver's license though I would have to caution that
> they look American not Mexican.

I'm sure you are correct, but I would venture to say that the great
majority of people going to Mexico do not enter via a border crossing
with a car. Most people fly, and it is quite possible that immigration
authorities are more strict about these things at airports. In any
case, why take the chance? What is the advantage of carrying a birth
certificate, which may or may not be acceptable to the particular
burocrat you encounter?