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This is great to know. While on vacation we always enjoy the local food, but eating out 3 meals a day for 7 days is not my idea of fun. I love to cook and we will be traveling with 6 couples, so saving money on food is an easy fix with bringing some in. Bad part is now the airlines are charging for each piece of checked luggage...ugh
That should be ok since I plan on packing my toothbrush, flip flops and sarong for clothes ... lol

Check with your airline--most are not charging the extra for the first bag for international travel--at least not yet.

I think the $25 for luggage offsets the cost of the groceries and eating out, especially as expensive as things can be on an island. We like to take our time in the mornings and have coffee and breakfast in. Often the dinner meals are large enough you can take a leftovers container home and we would snack on that. It is a must for us to have dinner out though and have spent anywhere from $5 - $200US per couple.

On one trip there we packed a overhead sized suitcase with only frozen Stoufer dinners. There were not acknowledged and we had no problems getting them there still frozen. We left Cleveland at 7 am thou Charlotte and were at the Banana Beach by 1pm.

Danny - that is kind of funny really! I would never have thought of taking tv dinners, good thought. I am glad they didn't lose your bag.

Im just happy colomojo admits to spending $200 for dinner. Guess im not the only one.

LOL - more than once (or twice) in my lifetime!

The way I figured it If I had to give up the bag it wouldn't go to waste.

I think thoes who claim to spend $50 on dinner take their meals at the park

By the way, with breakfast at the Banana Beach, beliken throughout the day , pizza from and at Pedro's and a late Stoufer we ate very good plus some fish we caught. Plenty.