Saturday, November 26, 2011

Fees

We have discovered that some countries love to add little fees on everything you do (at least on everything tourists do).

The fee amount always contains the word "only" and always comes as a surprise once you are basically past the point of no return.

So far we have paid the following official fees:

Arrival fee
Departure fee
Terminal fee
Green fee
Eco fee
Island fee
Snorkeling fee (enforced by an official in a canoe)
Registration fee

The terminal fee in Manila was actual consisting of four different fees; security development charge, passenger service charge, government share and anti hijacking fee. What is an anti hijacking fee and why is there an official fee called government share?

On a positive note at least all these fees provide lots of work opportunities...

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