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Subject: Re: Chile's $100 Visa for Americans Posted on: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:01:54 GMT


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> Are you suggesting that even if I can't pay the fee there I probably
> will still be allowed in?

In Ecuador, the fee is paid when you exit the country. They won't let you
on the plane if you don't have the cash. I almost ran into a problem last
time I was there in 2000 (before the dollarization)...When I left, I had
only a small amount of cash left, evenly split between Sucres and Dollars.
I had figured that I would use up the last of my Sucres to pay the $25 tax
to leave the airport, then I'd have the last of my dollars to get something
to eat in Miami during my layover. But I didn't know that the tax had to be
paid in cash, in Dollars only. So I ended up going home with about $30
worth of Sucres and not enough dollars to buy lunch in Miami.

I think that if I hadn't had the cash in dollars, they would not have let me
on the plane.