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Some Travel Tips

About airport arrivals
Immigration. On inbound international flights you will be given two forms to complete. One is for immigration; after the officer at the immigration desk has stamped this form do not lose it - you will be asked for it on when you exit Peru. Lose it and you will be fined.
Customs. Give the form to the customs officer after you collect your bags from the carousel. You may be asked to press a button; if the green light comes on you are clear to proceed; if the red light comes on get your baggage keys out. Tough Luck!

The currency of Perú is the Nuevo Sol (New Sun) and is depicted as S/.
The mid-market exchange rate at the date of last page revision $1 = S/. 2.72 (two soles, seventy-two centimos).

Taxis in Lima are not metered so you need to agree a price with the driver before entering. At Lima airport, however, big changes are taking place since the operation was privatized and taken over by a consortium headed by Frankfurt airport. They are now made to queue and the price is fixed. If you are not being met from your hotel arrange your transport at one of the desks immediately after customs and before you exit the terminal. If you don't, outside you will face a scrum of drivers hustling for business. There is a large display board showing the the fares to various parts of the city. Don't be fooled by touts hanging around the airport; have nothing to do with any of them no matter how "official" they say they are.

I have heard of scams being run by the Lima airport drivers. They tell arriving passengers that Lima centre is extremely dangerous (not true). They then take passengers to Miraflores at an inflated cost and receive a commission from hotels there. Another scam is they pretend to call your hotel, then say either you don't have a reservation or your hotel is full or it has burnt down or some other story. They then take you to another hotel where they get commission.
Nearly all hotels offer an airport pick-up service (if arranged in advance) so take advantage of this.

In the airport international departures area (next to arrivals) there is a tourist information desk open 24 hours, banks, money exchange offices, and ATMs that take Visa/Plus and Mastercard/Cirrus and give U.S. dollars or soles. Upstairs there is a 24-hour pharmacy where you can get shots in case you forgot.

If you are taking internal flights in Peru you MUST reconfirm your return flight 72 hours before departure. Domestic airlines persistently overbook flights, particularly on the Cuzco route, and if you don't reconfirm you will lose your seat. Check-in time for internal flights is two hours before flight departure and airport tax is US$5. Check-in time for international flights is three hours before flight departure and airport tax is US$28.

The international telephone dial code for Lima is ++51-1.

The information and prices are accurate to the best of my knowledge at the time of writing but they could all change tomorrow; asi es la vida.



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