Hi Nick
If you are going before the end of may,
give me a call as i am taking my boat down to Trinidad from Barbados.
should be leaving around the 31st May.
have a few contacts that may be able to fix you up with an onward lift
to Venezuela.
PS: I'm a mad brit as well.
On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:39:43 GMT,
gurzhfvp.jbexfubc@ntlworld.com (Nick
Odell) wrote:
--> On Tue, 16 May 2006 13:39:37 +0200, "Ronald Olsson"
<ronald.olsson@chello.se>
--> wrote:
-->
--> >
--> >"Nick Odell" <gurzhfvp.jbexfubc@ntlworld.com> skrev i meddelandet
--> >news:4468f0d4.8570167@text.news.ntlworld.com...
--> >> On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:33:05 +0200, "Ronald Olsson"
--> ><ronald.olsson@chello.se>
--> >> wrote:
--> >>
--> >> >"Nick Odell" <gurzhfvp.jbexfubc@ntlworld.com> skrev i
meddelandet
--> >> >news:44664c7a.30630409@text.news.ntlworld.com.. .
--> >> >> Hi,
--> >> >>
--> >> >> I want to start my next trip around South America with a
boat trip from
--> >> >Trinidad
--> >> >> to Venezuela but first I need to get to Trinidad! I'm
interested in any
--> >> >ideas
--> >> >> for cheap flights from Europe[1]. I only want a one-way
ticket (I'll be
--> >> >coming
--> >> >> back from somewhere else) so cheap seats, charters, tearing
up the
--> >return
--> >> >half,
--> >> >> booking unused sectors for a cheap deal - anything
considered!
--> >> >>
--> >> >> Thanks!
--> >> >>
--> >> >> Nick
--> >> >> [1]From anywhere in Europe so long as it's cheap :)
--> >> >> --
--> >> >> real e-mail is themusicworkshop at ntlworld dot com
--> >> >
--> >> >To get a cheap ticket Europe-Trinidad, make the arrangmenet at
least 3-5
--> >> >months ahead if you are going with BA or BWIA, otherwise the
cheaper
--> >tickets
--> >> >are gone.
--> >> >
--> >> >And, I suppose you will not leave Trinidad same day you
arrive, do you
--> >know
--> >> >that that you have to show a valid on-going ticket and also an
addres in
--> >> >Trinidad for the Immegration? Otherwise they donīt let you in.
--> >> >Ronald
--> >>
--> >> Thanks.
--> >>
--> >> I'll have a return ticket to Europe from Buenos Aires in my
pocket - I'll
--> >check
--> >> with the consulate here to find out if that will be sufficient.
And if an
--> >> address is necessary I suppose I'll have to break the habit of
a lifetime
--> >and
--> >> book accomodation ahead :)
--> >>
--> >> Nick
--> >> --
--> >> real e-mail is themusicworkshop at ntlworld dot com
--> >
--> >Hi Nick
--> >Anyone who enter Trinidad must have a ticket with return from
Trinidad or an
--> >on-going ticket to any other destination. You did write that you
will start
--> >with boat trip across from Trinidad to?? The T&T Immigration
will for sure
--> >ask for that ticket as your return ticket is from Buenos Aires,
otherwise I
--> >donīt think they will not let you in.
-->
--> I'm obviously going to have to check this out properly. I want to
go to the east
--> of Venezuela but if I fly in via Caracas I'm going to have to
double back on
--> myself and I _hate_ doubling back on myself (yeah, yeah, another
eccentric
--> Brit..) So I thought that it might work if I arrived in Trinidad,
stayed a few
--> days and checked out the boat services to Venezuela. I didn't
really want to be
--> as formal as booking the boat in advance but if I have to do that
to satisfy
--> immigration then I guess I will have to do that. As I said before,
I'll check
--> your suggestions out. Thanks.
--> >
--> >If you stay in Trinidad, or any other Island in the Caribbean,
the
--> >Immigration want to have an address into your Immigration paper
you get on
--> >the flight. But if you are going to stay for one night or so,
itīs not
--> >absolutely necessary to book in advance.
--> >
--> >The Immigration Officer will keep you passport and travel
documents and send
--> >you to the Tourist Information Desk to get an accommondation.
When you are
--> >back, the Immigration Officer clear you out. But itīs of course
much more
--> >easy to have an address already on arriveal.
--> >
--> >A check with T&T Embassy or Consulate will for sure save you from
a lot of
-->
--> Useful, thanks
-->
--> Nick