Ahoy, Michelle! Welcome to planDisney and thanks for sailing over with your Disney Cruise Line question about required travel documentation.
A lot of Disney Cruise Line’s itineraries include Mexican ports of call, which makes it difficult to pinpoint your specific travel documentation requirements without further details. The Western Caribbean itineraries sailing from Galveston, Fort Lauderdale, and Port Canaveral, often include stops in Cozumel and Progreso along the Gulf of Mexico. But the Mexican Riviera and Baja itineraries that set sail from San Diego, include stops along Mexico’s Pacific coast in ports like Ensenada, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, and Mazatlán. That means that there are a lot of different departure ports and destinations that may be involved in your travel, which could impact the requirements.
Additionally, the travel documentation requirements for sailings departing from the United States can be different depending on whether you are taking a round trip cruise or a one-way cruise. Round trip cruises start and stop at the same exact port, whereas one-way cruises leave from one departure port and end at a completely different destination. The vast majority of Disney cruises are round trip, including the Western Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, and Baja itineraries.
If you are a US citizen who is sailing from the United States on those types of round trip itineraries, then you must provide one of the following required documents:
- Original valid US passport OR
- Original valid US passport card OR
- Original state-issued birth certificate AND a physical government-issued photo ID OR
- Original Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) issued by the Department of State AND a physical government-issued photo ID OR
- Original Certificate of Naturalization issued by US Citizenship and Immigration Services AND a physical government-issued photo ID
Children 15 years of age and younger who are US citizens must present one of the required documents listed above, but they do not need the physical government-issued photo ID to go along with the last three options.
Most likely, you would not need a passport as long as you are a US citizen, sailing on a round-trip itinerary from a US departure port, and can provide one of the other required documents instead. For further information, click here to view Disney Cruise Line's travel documentation policies.
If you have any other questions before you set sail next year, then you are always welcome back at planDisney. Happy sailing!
Catherine