By Kevin (BonaireTalker - Post #20) on Saturday, April 3, 2004 - 11:55 pm: |
purchasing tickets and checking luggage is done at the same time and same counter in Aruba?
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #506) on Sunday, April 4, 2004 - 9:19 am: |
simple answer: the ticket counter and check in are two different places
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By Tom Cousino (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #504) on Sunday, April 4, 2004 - 9:21 am: |
And if you are really lucky, you will be made to purchase a departure tax ticket.
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #509) on Sunday, April 4, 2004 - 12:04 pm: |
The check in counter people often tell you that you have to pay a departure tax and a few people will cough up the cash. YOU are NOT required to pay the departure tax since you are a transient traveller (just passing thru Aruba). If they request that you pay the tax, immediately ask for a supervisor and explain that you just arrived on the Delta flight and are leaving for Bonaire. Show them your ticket to Aruba. Since you have to pay the tax in cash at the check in counter, I am not sure whether the agents just don't know the rule or are simply pocketing the money. I think the official rule is that if you spend an overnite in Aruba, you have to pay the tax. There is no tax on the return. That tax is built into your U.S. carrier ticket.
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By Kevin (BonaireTalker - Post #21) on Sunday, April 4, 2004 - 10:20 pm: |
Gregg,
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By Jay Hinze (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 7:07 pm: |
My wife and I will be traveling to Bonaire in mid-May. We are excited about our first time to the island although we are "Caribbean veterans". We will be traveling on Delta through Aruba and picking up the 4:30 PM flight to Bonaire on Bonaire Excel. I haven't seen any posts lately about BE service. Is no news good news?? Maybe I don't want to know!
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By Kevin (BonaireTalker - Post #22) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:17 pm: |
Jay, my wife and I will be on that Delta flt from ATL to Aruba on May 11. Hope to make the connection with Bonairexcel at4:30. From the posts Gregg has left, it will be very tight to make. Other than that
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #511) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:23 pm: |
Kevin,
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By Kevin (BonaireTalker - Post #23) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:28 pm: |
Gregg,
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By Jay Hinze (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 5:03 pm: |
I've been communicating with Mariela Jonis with Bonair Exel. She has been very responsive and pleasant. The flight schedule has changed for summer. The flight from Aruba to Bonaire now departs at 1:30PM instead of 2:30PM. This will be a tight connection based upon what I've read in earlier posts. According to Ms Jonis this is a "legal connection". Oh well, if Kevin and I miss our flights, at least we'll be in the sunny Caribbean! The return flight to Aruba now departs earlier. Check out the BE website for the new schedule.
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #514) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 7:33 pm: |
Jay,
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1763) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 8:09 pm: |
I just got a schedule from BE a couple weeks ago for the summer and I don't see a flight near 1:30 at all. I show the 3:30 as Gregg mentioned.
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #515) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 7:26 am: |
I suspect it may be the flight from Bonaire to Aruba that leaves at 1:30. Last year the flight left at 1:15
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By Jay Hinze (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #4) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 9:39 am: |
Oops! I typed the times in wrong. I must have had a senior moment. The flight to Bonaire departs at 3:30. The BE website only has the schedule on their Dutch language version of their website. Again sorry for my confusion.
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