Jamaica to Start Taxing Visitors on May 1st.

[Oggy Boy]

Interesting move by Jamaica. They will start taxing all visitors on May 1st, 2005. Visitors arriving by cruise ship will be taxed $2 and those arriving by any other means will be taxed $10. It is unclear whether the cruise line will pay for those debarking, or the visitors themselves will have to pay individually.

Does anyone know?

Here is a link to the article.

http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/ar...05041515161955

Tom

[Vice]

Another good reason to avoid Jamaica!

[Lightsluvr]

We are cruising to Jamaica in January 2006. I think by then we will learn if this new tax is extracted from the tourists individually or from the cruise line/air line which conveys the tourist...

[Larry in Miami]

I was there at the end of May and did not get charged anything. Carnival must include that fee.

[oppis]

Agree, what Vice said, about avoiding Jamaica.

We hated it and the next time we stay on the ship, no drug-dealers, no other rare things offering to you, no tax to get more money from the "rich" tourists.

Marita

[Larry in Miami]

Margaritaville for a margarita and that's it.