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Departure tax for children
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Where are you coming from? Flying a commercial airline? Some airlines have the departure tax included in your ticket. Everyone pays, whether in the ticket total price or here before leaving.
Some airlines will have the departure tax included. Check with your airline. Charter flights do not include the departure tax.
Everyone pays a $10 tourist card, even babies in arm. Nevertheless, not everyone pays the departure tax. If your child does not occupy their own seat on the plane, they are not required to pay departure tax.
This is correct the departure tax is added to each ticket not each person as the entrance visa is. So if not included in your ticket puchase (many airlines inlcude it as another tax) then you pay for it for each ticket you hold.
Bob K
As this thread concerns only the departure tax, why not check the facts. Current carribean departure taxes are:
?Antigua and Barbuda: $20
?Aruba: $36.50
?Bahamas: $15
?Barbados: $27.50
?Belize: $39
?Bonaire: $32
?Cayman Islands: $20
?Bermuda: $29
?Dominica: $20
?Dominican Republic: $20
?Grenada: $13
?Haiti: $30
?Jamaica: $20
?St. Kitts and Nevis: $20
?St. Lucia: $26
?St. Maarten: $30
?St. Vincent and the Grenadines: $15
?Trinidad and Tobago: $17
The DR is in the ballpark.
Having been to the DR twice before, and also to Antigua, St. Lucia, Jamaica and Grenada I'm aware that there are taxes to be paid, I just couldn't remember if children paid, hence the original question. I just wanted to budget for it in the overall cost. I'm coming from Sweden but booked with Thomson in the UK to avoid an extra 5% VAT on the overall cost, (our VAT rate is 25%, and income tax between 30-55% if you think you are badly off) and with the good exchange rate it's very competive right now, compared to a few years ago. I'm very much looking forward to returning to the DR.
i travelled last october from puj to london wit my then 13 month old daughter.
she did not have a seat and she still paid the $20.
she did not have a seat and she still paid the $20.
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