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Oct 9, 2015, 7:47 pm
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I just saw this on the Chilean Embassy website.
"Hotels waive Chile's 18% sales tax applied to rooms when the guest shows the tourist card and pays with U.S. dollars. On flights leaving Chile, there is an airport tax of US$18, or the equivalent in Chilean Pesos. On domestic flights airport tax is included in the airline ticket."
Anyone have any experience regarding the hotel tax part?
"Hotels waive Chile's 18% sales tax applied to rooms when the guest shows the tourist card and pays with U.S. dollars. On flights leaving Chile, there is an airport tax of US$18, or the equivalent in Chilean Pesos. On domestic flights airport tax is included in the airline ticket."
Anyone have any experience regarding the hotel tax part?
Oct 9, 2015, 9:57 pm
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Oct 10, 2015, 7:50 am
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I wonder if I show them my Canadian passport if they'll charge me in USD? Assuming they use a close to real exchange rate, I can pay with a CC that even with a 3% bump for foreign transactions still would be worth doing to save 18%.
Anyone know how this works on hotels paid for online btw? Do they refund the tax? Or do they just never charge it in the first place? That said I think based on the airbnb prices I'll probably go that way so it might be moot
Oct 10, 2015, 9:28 am
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I just saw this on the Chilean Embassy website.
"Hotels waive Chile's 18% sales tax applied to rooms when the guest shows the tourist card and pays with U.S. dollars. On flights leaving Chile, there is an airport tax of US$18, or the equivalent in Chilean Pesos. On domestic flights airport tax is included in the airline ticket."
Anyone have any experience regarding the hotel tax part?
"Hotels waive Chile's 18% sales tax applied to rooms when the guest shows the tourist card and pays with U.S. dollars. On flights leaving Chile, there is an airport tax of US$18, or the equivalent in Chilean Pesos. On domestic flights airport tax is included in the airline ticket."
Anyone have any experience regarding the hotel tax part?
Only condition, to show (and they will photocopy) a passport other than from Chile.
No tax (VAT) will be included as it is consider an "export", in this case of services.
Any Credit Card, is acceptable but charges will be in USD.
Oct 10, 2015, 9:37 am
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2nd thanks! I just booked a Christmas trip to Medellin as usual but stopping first in SCL, totally unrelated to this thread, but I know threads like this often have little nuggets of info just like this!
I wonder if I show them my Canadian passport if they'll charge me in USD? Assuming they use a close to real exchange rate, I can pay with a CC that even with a 3% bump for foreign transactions still would be worth doing to save 18%.
Anyone know how this works on hotels paid for online btw? Do they refund the tax? Or do they just never charge it in the first place? That said I think based on the airbnb prices I'll probably go that way so it might be moot
I wonder if I show them my Canadian passport if they'll charge me in USD? Assuming they use a close to real exchange rate, I can pay with a CC that even with a 3% bump for foreign transactions still would be worth doing to save 18%.
Anyone know how this works on hotels paid for online btw? Do they refund the tax? Or do they just never charge it in the first place? That said I think based on the airbnb prices I'll probably go that way so it might be moot
Yes, you can use yor Canadian issue Credit Card, but will be charged in USD at the Chile Central Banks rate of the day.
Oct 10, 2015, 9:41 am
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At check-out the Hotel will issue an "Export Sales Invoice" in USD at the exchange rate of the day.
Only condition, to show (and they will photocopy) a passport other than from Chile.
No tax (VAT) will be included as it is consider an "export", in this case of services.
Any Credit Card, is acceptable but charges will be in USD.
Only condition, to show (and they will photocopy) a passport other than from Chile.
No tax (VAT) will be included as it is consider an "export", in this case of services.
Any Credit Card, is acceptable but charges will be in USD.
Oct 10, 2015, 1:51 pm
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I think most hotels charge in US dollars. At least thats what I saw for Ritz, SPG, and Hilton. So there wouldn't be any way to do the dynamic currency conversion scam right??
Oct 10, 2015, 2:20 pm
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