I'm new to non revving and was wondering about travel to countries (like Japan) that require proof of an onward ticket. Do the standby reservations suffice (although they are not confirmed), or how does one get around this?
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I'm new to non revving and was wondering about travel to countries (like Japan) that require proof of an onward ticket. Do the standby reservations suffice (although they are not confirmed), or how does one get around this?
Yeah, they are fine with that. As long as they see that you have a ticket out of their country they are ok
Thanks!
Been to 30+ countries and never been asked to show proof.
You'll be fine......
some funny odd ball do ask to see your return ticket sometimes. I've experienced check-in staff (rarely), immigration officer (even more rare) and custom officer (what does my ticket has anything to do with you?!?) asking to see your ticket.
Japan is the country I nonrev to most. I don't think I've ever been asked to show a return ticket there. In places where they do ask, the printed return "reservation" is good enough. Funny you should ask this, in that when I travel by myself, I often only make one-way reservations and don't book the return until some later point. I get detained in the UK by immigration every time I do this, so having the paper in hand saves drama.
Years ago we flew from BKK to PEN on Thai using stand-by ID tickets.
My wife was on a Thai passport and didn't have a visa for Malaysia, which apparently she should have had as she didn't have a confirmed reservation out of PEN. A hurried conference between Thai Airways and Immigration, resulted in a revalidation sticker showing a confirmed reservation being attached to the return flight coupon. Once Immigration waved us through, the Thai Airways lady promptly removed the sticker.
For years afterwards I kept a couple of reval stickers with my passport, in case of need.
Funny that you would say that Eric, I was in Tokyo 2 weeks ago and the custom officer (first time for me) asked me to show him my ticket. And he got really confused looking at my zed ticket which was routed all over Asia, and I had to dig out all my visas and IDs to explain to him that I don't live in Malaysia while I hold a Malaysian passport. I think if you have a US/UK passport, you prob won't have that issue. Just like the pair of blonde chicks from Chicago in front of me whom he was smiling so happily while waving them through, or is it because they are blonde chicks......
I've non-revved all over asia (China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and I cannot recall ever being asked about a return ticket. I have both visited and transited through Japan. I found it extremely effecient and I never had any holdups with customs/immigration.
Even when I showed up in Sydney and Auckland with my arm immobilized in a sling, nobody said one word about my condition. Good times!
Having said that I'd better print out something on my next trip. http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...DIR#>/cool.gif
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (29Palms @ Aug 29 2009, 02:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>Uh-huh, well Palms, it sounds to me as if someone faxed your record to the authorities. http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...#>/biggrin.gifQuote:
I was transitting one time through Guam via NRT and they had us in some holding area that was very uncommodating because we had about an 8 hour layover. It was a tower looking area, and they had alot of seats and place you could nap around the seating area but access was limited. You could not leave this particular terminal with hardly any real access to anything.
.....I ever saw. I was departing for a NWA flight to Detroit. The rest was good and quiet but I wondered why this prison like scenario.[/b]