Hi, you only need a tourist card, I used chloriquine and you can get many bargains in the duty free in the DR. 1L bottle of Smirnoff was £10! Aftershave/perfume is very cheap too!

Enjoy.

Thanks for that luke, Do you know how long before travel you can apply for a tourist card? Did you use just chloroquine or did you use avloclor as well? Paula

Currently you will pay US$10 per person, on arrival for your tourist visa and you pay US$20 per person, on departure. You can get your visa prior to leaving the UK, but I believe it's just as easy to buy it on arrival. Check out the Dominican Republic Embassy website for tourist visas prior to departure.

All info and tips are most welcome,Thanks scoya.

Sorry, I don't know how early you can purchase it online. We just bought ours when we arrived at the airport. It was abit of a pain and it was a little confusing but everyone just follows eachother and it's all good. I only used chloroquine.

Luke

Will check it out luke,Thanks. Paula

Have just returned and would say that the cigarettes appeared to be cheaper upstairs at the gates as opposed to downstairs in the duty free.

Also, you only pay your US$20pp departure tax at the depature gates, you don't need your passports just one person from your party to take all your boarding cards and the money, they then stamp both sections of your boarding card. This wasn't explained to us, so was a little confusing at the time as the arrival tax is dealt with diferently to the departure tax.

Lastly, at LGW this morning our flight was the highlight of the morning for the customs guys, and they had a huge haul in cigarettes. I understand you can only bring in one carton of cigarettes per person and lots of people had obviously bought cigarettes whilst in resort and put them in their checked in luggage, this luggage has obviously been scanned and customs were waiting for those cases and their owners!