For an extra fee, you can skip the passport line when arriving in England. Here’s that link:
Food, Fado, and Football in Porto, Portugal
With several days to spend in Porto, Jonathan L explores several aspects of local culture
For an extra fee, you can skip the passport line when arriving in England. Here’s that link:
With several days to spend in Porto, Jonathan L explores several aspects of local culture
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This iconic tree along The 17 Mile Drive is always a beautiful picture.
Of all the grand features of Paris’s Grands Magasins, Paul Heymont’s favorite is the stained glass dome at Printemps
DrFumblefinger shares images of a Lewis and Clark statue he spotted on the Boise State Capitol grounds.
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DrFumblefinger shares images of a Lewis and Clark statue he spotted on the Boise State Capitol grounds.
DrFumblefinger shares images and memories of a cruise on Lisbon’s Tagus River.
I think these sorts of things are nice for the frequent travelers, like pilots, airline stewardesses/hostesses, business people, sales people, etc. I’m not sure there’s much of a role for them for average travelers on vacation. Besides the fees, there’s the time spent getting the documentation filled out and filed, and so on; probably as long as waiting in line a few times.
And, PHeymont, it does not surprise me that the entire thing is a way to shake more money from people. At times it seems the appetite of governments for its citizens money is endless.
As it’s described in the article, it appears the government wants fees for things like this to pay the costs of other immigration programs…I wonder if that explains the sizable fees for the U.S. Precheck and Global Entry programs, which Gumbo reader Sisyphus asked about on the forums the other day. (Here is a link to that discussion Is Pre-check or Global Entry worth it?)
The article also says it may be available to some regular-visitor travelers from US, Canada, etc. Wonder if they’ll work out mutual exchanges with Global Entry?