Departure Tax & Currency Exchange for an All-Inclusive Vacation

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Rob Blowes for Carlson Wagonlit Travel on behalf of expertvillage.com today I’m speaking about all inclusive travel, in this clip I’m going to speak about currency, departure taxes, etc. I’ve touched upon this as may be what’s not included in an all inclusive package, generally you prepay your hotel service charges however, many countries require that you pay the departure tax locally for example the Dominican Republic you have to pay 20 U.S. dollars to leave upon departure, Panama is another one, Cuba, there’s many countries that require you to pay this locally so just keep in mind that you need to have some currency, generally they accept it would be a U.S. dollar departure tax that they would want to collect rather than the local currency. You also want to keep in mind when you go to a foreign country like Dominican Republic or Mexico you may not want to convert too much of your own currency into their currency as it’s somewhat difficult to change back into a hard currency after you’ve got too many in your pocket, so just to avoid that keep in mind you can use your credit card for many purchases of tours and what not, purchases in the shops, in the hotel and what not you can use your card. So just generally you can take minimal cash with you, credit cards accepted widely, ATM’s are all over the world as well now."