Originally Posted by
cityfishing
Ouch. Thanks for the tips. Hopefully, we will encounter the reasonable ranger as my 7 year old is coming on the trip. Or someone who is staying in our hotel might let us borrow their receipt. The fees for reciprocity and park entrances do add up. We are also going to Machu Picchu and finding cheap intra-Peru LAN flights without paying the gringo price has been difficult.
I heard that they're supposed to stamp your receipt so you can't trade them, but I don't think ours were stamped. Obviously, at $60/pop, a huge "gray market" would likely develop on the island if you can trade them. I don't know the answer to this.
We used LanPass miles for the intra-Peru LAN flights to avoid that gringo tax. It was a crazy good deal last year, when LANPass had a promo. If you can't use ff miles, consider LAN's Peruvian competitors. I think there's a lot of internet discussion about this topic because flying LAN in Peru is silly at the prices they want to charge foreigners.