What's the website where you have to post your details?

[Tyre Smoke]

The website where you have to fill in passport details and holiday flight numbers before you depart, can anyone point me at it please?

Also, how far in advance can you fill out the details?

[fatandwheezing]

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/

I think you have to do it at least 3 days in advance but not sure.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Am I missing something here, where are you actually going? ESTA is for the USA.

[Tyre Smoke]

Tenerife and Aruba (but not at the same time).

Bint in First Choice said something about it and I seem to remember having to do something for Kenya last year.

[fatandwheezing]

Oops, I just assumed you meant the US - don't remember having to do something similar anywhere else.

[V8mate]

Tyre Smoke said:

Tenerife and Aruba (but not at the same time).

Bint in First Choice said something about it and I seem to remember having to do something for Kenya last year.

This bint. Nigerian was she? Just how many details did you fill in?

[Tyre Smoke]

V8mate said:

This bint. Nigerian was she? Just how many details did you fill in?

Chardonnay, and she wants to be a model.

Is it just for the USA then?

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Is what you're really asking actually whether you need visas to visit Tenerife and Aruba?

Assuming you're a British citizen holding a standard passport you shouldn't need anything to enter Tenerife as it, being part of Spain, is within the EU. I'm not so sure about Aruba but my interpretation of this is that you don’t need any sort of visa for a holiday, you probably just fill in some form on the plane before landing.

Your travel agent sounds about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

[Tyre Smoke]

No, I know about visas and all that. Just the bint seemed to be quite insistent that we had to log on to the internet and input passport details and our flight details.

I know I didn't dream it. She is obviously telling everyone, whether they are travelling to the States or not.

[jayfrancis]

Tyre Smoke said:

No, I know about visas and all that. Just the bint seemed to be quite insistent that we had to log on to the internet and input passport details and our flight details.

I know I didn't dream it. She is obviously telling everyone, whether they are travelling to the States or not.

I went on holiday to Ibiza last summer with Thompson. I had to go onto their website and put in passport details. Maybe this was because I booked online and not in a travel agents.

ESTA is for the USA only and has to be done every two years.

[Baron Von Alders]

Is this something to do with the Advance Passenger Information (API) where the airlines need full details of passengers before they travel.

For most you can do it online when you print boarding passes etc. If not, they just take the details from your passport when you check-in

Edit - stick advance passenger info into google & it comes up with links to travel companies / airlines on what they want off of you

Edited by Baron Von Alders on Wednesday 23 February 22:13

[V8mate]

Tyre Smoke said:

No, I know about visas and all that. Just the bint seemed to be quite insistent that we had to log on to the internet and input passport details and our flight details.

Sure she wasn't just recommending online check- in?

[Tyre Smoke]

V8mate said:

Sure she wasn't just recommending online check- in?

No, definitely not. I'm a seasoned enough traveller to know the difference. It's something to do with what the Baron said up there ^^^

ETA:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/For...

And in my case First Choice:

http://www.firstchoice.co.uk/help/before-you-go/ap...

Edited by Tyre Smoke on Thursday 24th February 07:58

Edited by Tyre Smoke on Thursday 24th February 08:01

[Roo]

Good god, you now have to do API for flights to Europe?

Glad I'm driving across this year.

[rog007]

+1; I don't think I'll fly anywhere ever again. If I have to take my shoes off one more time....

Edited by rog007 on Thursday 10th March 15:09

[Cupramax]

rog007 said:

I don't think I'll fly anywhere ever again. If I have to take my shoes one more time....

Do you normally not take your shoes with you???...

[rog007]

Cupramax said:

Do you normally not take your shoes with you???...

See how cross I was, I missed a word out...

[Bill]

jayfrancis said:

I went on holiday to Ibiza last summer with Thompson. I had to go onto their website and put in passport details. Maybe this was because I booked online and not in a travel agents.

We had to do the same for easyjet through their website.

[anonymous-user]

rog007 said:

+1; I don't think I'll fly anywhere ever again. If I have to take my shoes off one more time....

Edited by rog007 on Thursday 10th March 15:09

If they smell anything like the chap in front of me when he took his off yesterday then it's not just you who gets



You could almost see the fumes never mind smell them!