Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby
Hi All,
Just to let you all know my wife has her visa now already. She phoned up and badgered Aboitiz 2GO and in the end they looked for her package and then re-routed it for her from their airport depot to their local freight depot and allowed her to go to there and collect it personally. So after she got it, I then went online and booked her a flight with KLM for the 28th of September. All thats left to do is for her to get the CFO sticker on her passport, which she is going to whilst in Manila on her way to the UK.

When i booked her flight, it said something about foreign nationals being exempt from the Philippine Travel Tax, which is something neither of us had ever heard of, so I went online and googled for it and found this page http://philtourism.gov.ph/ttax1.html , which tells you all about it. I've read through all the exemptions and it looks like its another P1620 to pay on top of the P550 boarding charge, I just read that for those with tickets issued outside of the Philippines, payment should be made direct to the PTA (Philippine Tourism Authority) Travel Tax Office. I take this to mean that if the ticket was purchased in the Philippines, that the tax would then be collected by the travel agency and charged on top of the ticket price. Has anyone any additional info on this subject.

Iain.

Great news Iain I was feeling for you both as everyone else seem to get the good news and you were still waiting. Im not sure about the travel tax my Wife bought her ticket of a local Agent who ensured tax was paid already. But when we went to Paris recently in the breakdown of the fee half of the cost of the holiday seemed to be one tax or another!!