planetgeli
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Here’s a handy tip for anyone trying to do what we’ve just done (flying into Mexico, land to Belize, land to Guatemala, land to Mexico, flying out of Mexico back to UK).
When we left by land to Belize we had to pay a £21 per person tax. Fair enough. Sort of. We weren’t, however, given a receipt, just had our immigration cards taken from us.
(Leaving Belize to Guatemala you pay a similar, but less tax but that’s not the story. Guatemala charges no such taxes. Hooray for Guatemala).
Now at Cancun airport preparing to fly home. And we’ve just been charged the £21 per person tax AGAIN. Allegedly if we’d had receipts from the original payment (Mexico to Belize) we wouldn’t have had to pay, though even this was not totally clear. But basically we’ve been stung for the same tax twice.
The final joke was we didn’t have enough money to pay. We were roughly 50 pence in English terms short. Immigration made a big deal of letting us off this 50p. Fuckers.
Oh, so what’s the handy tip? If planning this route, don’t fly into Mexico. Fly to Belize or Guatemala, then you’ll only be charged once for leaving Mexico. Cheap flights can be had to both countries, though the Guatemala ones tend to land around midnight and Guatemala City is one of the last places on Earth I’d want to be at midnight, knackered.
When we left by land to Belize we had to pay a £21 per person tax. Fair enough. Sort of. We weren’t, however, given a receipt, just had our immigration cards taken from us.
(Leaving Belize to Guatemala you pay a similar, but less tax but that’s not the story. Guatemala charges no such taxes. Hooray for Guatemala).
Now at Cancun airport preparing to fly home. And we’ve just been charged the £21 per person tax AGAIN. Allegedly if we’d had receipts from the original payment (Mexico to Belize) we wouldn’t have had to pay, though even this was not totally clear. But basically we’ve been stung for the same tax twice.
The final joke was we didn’t have enough money to pay. We were roughly 50 pence in English terms short. Immigration made a big deal of letting us off this 50p. Fuckers.
Oh, so what’s the handy tip? If planning this route, don’t fly into Mexico. Fly to Belize or Guatemala, then you’ll only be charged once for leaving Mexico. Cheap flights can be had to both countries, though the Guatemala ones tend to land around midnight and Guatemala City is one of the last places on Earth I’d want to be at midnight, knackered.
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